Toronto Ïce Condominiums at York Centre | 234.07m | 67s | Lanterra | a—A

WeirdFishes said:
Never say never. Once the city rolls out their new Airbnb rules, things should slowly start to turn around. It won't be perfect, but you'll def see less revolving doors. This building deserves a chance.
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Ice will never be the building it was before. Short Term Rentals have transformed the building from a condo into a hotel.
 
Richard White said:
Ice will never be the building it was before. Short Term Rentals have transformed the building from a condo into a hotel.
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Hmmmm, it's not about becoming the building it was before, as Ice was born with this issue because of the developer and their contracts. But new city laws will slowly fix that. Will Ice's reputation improve? Only time will tell.
 
WeirdFishes said:
Never say never. Once the city rolls out their new Airbnb rules, things should slowly start to turn around. It won't be perfect, but you'll def see less revolving doors. This building deserves a chance.
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Yes it does!! Let's hope some positive changes come. The installation of fob access in the elevators will also help with access control to randoms as well
 
Mar 22, 2020

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Shots from the CN Tower have been showing a few missing panels on Ïce for at least a couple of years. It always triggers my low-grade OCD. lol
 
I just got word from a friend in the STR business that Ice Condos have temporarily banned ALL STR bookings until the current states of emergency are over with.

I saw the email from their management office so this is not a rumour. The thinking is that the STR guests present a risk of injury to the building relating to their potential infectious nature. In layman's terms the building is worried that STR Guests will spread the virus so they are banning them until this all blows over.

Does anyone here have a clear copy of the email sent out by TSCC 2510 management? I work at 65/55 Bremner Boulevard and was looking to forward it off to my management office as they wanted to do something similar but could not figure out how.
 
OK outside, horrible inside on every possible level: quality, management, maintenance etc.
Classic Lanterra
Always lower price than anything comparable in the neighbourhood
 
Richard White said:
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Read all the reviews here: https://www.google.com/search?q=ice...e..69i57j0.2423j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#
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Please - never live here. Moving out of this condo was such a relief. What a stressful place to live. Three elevators for a highrise that size is not enough to begin with, and for 9 of the 13 months I lived there, at least one, sometimes two, and occasionally all three were broken. The elevator wait times were often 20+ mins. Twice, I got stuck in the elevator. The facilities, although nice, were consistently closed for repair (in fact, the gym had been closed for four straight months when I moved).
The short term rental traffic is constant and hectic - hotel volume traffic, with no hotel staff to manage it. With this comes people who have no concern or respect for the property or people who actually live there.
Fire alarms go off weekly, there is often trash, alcohol containers, cigarettes etc. in the common areas, and the cops visit the building somewhat regularly (including the SWAT team on my last night there). The chaos of this building is exacerbated by the hectic area in general, particularly on game day. To top it off, the management office was extremely rude from move in to move out, and obviously ineffective given the laundry list of issues with the building. I’m just glad I was a renter and was not paying a mortgage and condo fees for such a garbage place.

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I lived here for a little over a year and it sucked. I will not disclose which floor or tower I lived in but I was above the 40th. I shared my floor with the most inconsiderate neighbours I have ever experienced in my life. The ICE towers have a university/college dorm room vibe to them since many of the residents seem to be younger and are having difficulty transitioning into adulthood and out of “party mode”.

Firstly, there was a party on my floor almost weekly (sometimes two or three in a seven day period particularly in the summer). I always knew when my immediate neighbour was drinking because his voice would get so loud I could hear his conversations word for word through my walls. His friends were heavy drug users and I would not be able to have my window door open because of all the pot they were smoking. One of the brunette girls who lived down the hall was… let’s just say… “popular” with men (especially of African descent). She would get visits from four or five different men in a weekend. At first I thought that maybe she just “gets around a bit” but now I suspect that she was probably a low end escort. I remember leaving my apartment early on a Sunday morning and as I walked past her unit I could clearly hear her still partying with several men at five or six in the morning. Another unit on my floor was available on air bnb and it wasn’t unusual to have large groups of random people wandering around the hallways with luggage noisily trying to find the room they rented. I would often get woken up at three in the morning when the air bnb group drunkenly returned and attempted to find their room… again… after they returned from whatever evet they were in town for. This was just my floor, as far as the building goes…

If there is a Blue Jays, Leafs, or Raptors game going on (which as you can guess is frequent) you can pretty much guarantee there will be multiple parties on multiple floors and the lobby will be filled with drunken idiots all night. The concierge desk (a resource that is meant for the actual residents of the building) was constantly flooded with short term renter tourists asking ridiculous questions. I often couldn’t pick up my packages because there was a lineup of luggage wielding morons asking the concierge what restaurants where around and where they could park during their visit to the CN Tower... Yeah. There is also something about being in a tall building in the big city that inspired residents and their guests to throw things (or just spit) out their windows and watch it fall to the street below (I wish I were joking). Apparently there were a few near misses that probably would have resulted in a serious injury or death of a pedestrian below had they not been just a few feet out of the way.

Because there are so many people in these buildings false fire alarms are at least weekly occurrences. I would say two fire alarms per week were normal (one during the work week and one or two during the weekend). Once a fire alarm is activated it is probably going to be sounding for at least half an hour (the fire department has to respond, investigate the triggered alarm, and THEN deactivate the alarm). You can imagine this was a lot of fun around midnight on a work night because you are going to lose an hour of sleep that evening. People also think they can smoke in the stairwell without triggering the alarm (FYI - you cannot as there are detectors there as well). The elevators… I don’t have much to add here… but two elevators for the highrise is completely inadequate.

The location is great… but it does not mean very much because since you cannot easily get in and out of the building due to the insufficient elevators (which frequently break down). I would not consider buying or renting a unit in the ICE towers and I would not encourage others to do so on a long term basis. Steer clear of this one!
 
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