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Across from Toronto's famous Yorkdale Shopping Centre and its subway station, occupancy has begun for Fitzrovia Real Estate and AIMCo's three-tower Sloane development. In the time since UrbanToronto’s last update in October, 2024, the hand-laid brick exteriors have been completed. Designed by Arcadis, the 24-, 28-, and 30-storey purpose-built rental towers in North York’s Yorkdale area rise at the Dufferin Street and Highway 401 interchange.
In this northeast-facing drone view in November, 2024, all three towers of Sloane are seen with their exteriors largely complete. The shortest tower, to the right, appears to be sheathed in tan-coloured brick, but the charcoal coloured brick has enough sheen on its surface to simply be reflecting late day sunlight back to the camera. The taller rooftops to the left show active mechanical penthouse work, with temporary red safety fencing and staging. A construction hoist is fixed to the south elevation of the 28-storey building at left. At grade, landscaping had not yet begun on the triangular parcel in front of the complex, a future public park, then used as a construction staging area.
In June, 2025, below, we look north to the podiums clad in precast panels designed to resemble limestone, with the shorter tower set on its own base close to the camera, and the taller pair sharing a continuous podium that anchors the complex. Above the 24-storey tower’s podium, the terrace is enclosed by clear glass guardrails. Construction activity remains visible at the shared podium roof to the left, where we see red temporary fencing and staged materials.
Closer up a month later, the shorter tower’s lobby entrance boasts a glazed canopy marked by 'Sloane by Fitzrovia' branding above. The light ground-level precast is contrasted by dark glazing and aluminum louvres, while the tower above picks up on the dark brick tones through brick and window frames. Red safety fencing in the foreground signals exterior hardscaping and public realm finishes to come.
Looking west in August, 2025, the three towers now present fully clad facades, with the final sections of hand-laid brick completed following the dismantling of the construction hoist on the tallest tower’s northeast face. Mechanical penthouses are enclosed across all three buildings, with building maintenance units visible atop the roofs. The 24-storey tower distinguishes itself with its darker masonry and upper level step-backs, creating a sequence of private terraces leading up to the mechanical penthouse, in contrast to the towers’ generally uninterrupted vertical massing without balconies.
This month, we look west from the Yorkdale Shopping Centre parking lot, the 24- and 30-storey towers of Sloane silhouetted against the sunset in a setting otherwise defined by Yorkdale Shopping Centre's expansive surface parking. Podium-level signage and branding are visible in the background.
Reaching heights of 85.1m, 97.5m, and 103.4m, the three towers are collectively delivering 759 rental units to a formerly commercial property.
UrbanToronto will continue to follow progress on this development, but in the meantime, you can learn more about it from our Database file, linked below. If you'd like, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.
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