[Roy G Biv]

I just attended a party at Edgemere Estate in Oakville: Canada's most expensive home.

32,000 sq ft.

45 million dollars.

It's just an insane "house". Too bad it will be torn down soon.

 

[Bentley]

why is it being torn down? I know it recently sold but not sure who the buyer was. What is the plan for the property?

 

[Roy G Biv]

why is it being torn down? I know it recently sold but not sure who the buyer was. What is the plan for the property?

30 ultra-luxury condo units.

 

[Bentley]

45 million dollar home, being torn down for 30 luxury condo units......What a shame, it's a beautiful house and an even more beautiful property.

Who is the developer planning this?

 

[MrSocky]

I couldn't find the Projects & Construction thread for this one, so if possible could someone move these. But this is what that property looks like now(these are the ultra-luxury condos stated above, with prices starting at 3million). Probably one of my favourite things done by aA.

 

[Edward Skira]

Anybody have any further details?

 

[ZachBalbino]

i'll post some construction photos from my tour back from july 2012 soon

 

[ZachBalbino]

July 2012

From what they told me was that the original owners did not do well when it came to upkeeping of the interiors of the mansion

 

[waterloowarrior]

http://www.edgemere.ca/

used to be owned by Peter Gilgan of Mattamy, sold for $35.5 million

I feel like I've seen this before on UT but can't find another thread either.

 

[AlbertC]

Interesting read here regarding the history of the old mansion. Not exactly my cup of tea, but certainly some intriguing Gatsby-in-the-Hamptons-esque qualities to it.

Anyways, here's a rendering of aA's design for the new condo development:
http://www.thestar.com/life/homes/2009/01/24/edgemere_estate_to_be_replaced_with_luxury_condos.html

 

[Conrad Black]

Thanks for the updates folks.

 

[Memph]

The interiors looked in good shape when I visited the sales centre inside it (mostly just to see what the mansion was like ) although only part of the main floor was accessible. Gatsby-esque is a good way of describing it I think, I'm still somewhat surprised to see the mansion get destroyed, I'm not surprised they're building the condos given the size of the property, but I would have expected the mansion to be repurposed somehow or sold as a mansion on a smaller lot. It's not everyday you see a mansion this size torn down.

 

[Edward Skira]

dataBase listing added

http://www.urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/edgemere-private-residences

 

[urbandreamer]

I finally found an aA design I hate: it's dull, beige, grey and so sterile suburban looking. It feels institutional--as a new campus for Erindale it might work:

It looks like a dull West Van gated community--which of course is what it is

Sure it's got crisp modern lines but there's no passion here

Has anyone moved in yet? It felt as eerily empty as a Coal Harbour luxury condominium

You know what it needs?

Red brick, white ginger bread trim, more colour! All filtered through Peter Clewes' modernist eyes.

Or, quite differently, raw concrete and wood--modernism meets brutalism for tea in Oakville

Now that I would love!

 

[saynotofaux]

Has anyone moved in yet? It felt as eerily empty as a Coal Harbour luxury condominium

I live nearby, and only see a handful of units with lights on at night. 4 or 5 condos here are currently for sale on MLS.

I toured one of the "ground floor" (optimistic interpretation of a basement) 2-bedroom condos with my parents last year. It was supposedly 3000 sq/ft and it seemed the cavernous entry hallway consumed half of this space. I believe it was listed at $3.9M, with a monthly maintenance fee of $2000. The finishes were marginally high-end, and very bland, although obviously the idea was that the buyer would customize extensively. My parents found it hilarious that anyone would entertain the idea of dumping $4M on such a condo, when for that money you can get a 5000+ sq/ft custom build in SE Oakville with a quarter acre lot and a 'resort-like' backyard.

Phase 2 of the project seems to be taking forever, and the western half (unfinished part) of the site has become an eyesore, with massively overgrown weeds, ugly orange plastic construction fencing, and a melange of ugly signage blighting a large block of Lakeshore. Many people in the neighbourhood are just over it.