GWL Realty Advisors presents the New 18 York Street Toronto Office Tower - Office/Business/Retail Space for rent and purchase at 18 York St TO

18 York St Toronto Office Tower

GWL Realty Advisors introduces the new office tower high-rise development in the heart of downtown Toronto, 18 York Street. Here, the new generation of sophisticated, modern and amenity filled office tower space is now available for leasing through GWL Realty Advisors which integrates proven technology with the best affordable Toronto downtown office space there is in the city. Not only that, the new 18 York Street Toronto Office Tower presents a high-rise tower that has efficient design, low environmental impact in addition to being sustainable and low maintenance for the future. This is the first such new downtown Toronto office building tower that has garnered such an efficient design that it is awaiting approval for LEED Gold Designation. If this is the case, the new Toronto 18 York St office tower building will be the first LEED Gold certified office high-rise in the city ever. Located within the core of the downtown Toronto real estate business district, the 18 York Street Toronto office building is truly one of the most striking landmark buildings in the city core and is just five minutes away from both Bay Street and King Street. The new 18 York Office Tower building in downtown Toronto is also the first high-rise office in the city to have a roof top deck that is considered a green roof, thus garnering the interest in the LEED Gold certification once completed. As with any office tower, the 18 York Street Toronto office space is centrally located within all of the major transportation hubs and routes that include the TTC Subway, Go Transit as well as Union Station (PATH connection) so that office workers and tenants can get in and out of the business district very easily and efficiently. The groundbreaking for this modern Toronto office building at the 18 York Street location happened on October 13, 2008. As mentioned, GWL Realty is targeting an impressive LEED Gold standard, the first of its kind and will represent Toronto’s financial district’s greenest office tower ever.

The Efficiencies and Fact Sheet for the Toronto 18 York Street Office Building

Located in the Financial District in downtown Toronto, the new pre-construction 18 York Street office tower is more efficient than any other downtown office space in the city. Not only that, it will be the greenest and most energy efficient office building in Toronto real estate in addition to being the only LEED Gold certified Toronto office tower building as well once complete if it meets the LEED criteria. Here are some of the efficiencies as indicated by the developers of the 18 York St Toronto office tower: electrical energy efficiency by integrating dimmable lighting technology that beats the national energy model by over thirty per cent in addition to storm water reuse that collects rainwater, filters it and reuses it for undrinkable applications such as irrigation for the green roofs and surrounding landscaping among the common areas and green spaces. Also, the pre-construction Toronto 18 York Street Office building will have optimum mechanical distribution meaning that each floor has better local air controls for higher levels of occupant and tenant comfort. Raised floor provides efficient mechanical, electrical and voice data distribution and allows for modifications in the future if required. Also, there is column free floors at the pre-construction 18 York Toronto office building which provides greater layout flexibility and potential for greater density of office users per floor. The actual location of this new and modern Toronto office high-rise is located at the north west corner of Bremner Blvd and York Street and has enclosed pedestrian connections ot the train, subway and bus networks, all within a two to five minute walk from the office building. Also, the new 18 York Street Toronto high-rise office tower provides unobstructed views of the downtown Toronto skyline and a lot of windows and views from every floor. The rentable area for 18 York is approximately six hundred and fifty one thousand sf. As for the floor plate size for this office tower at the 18 York site in downtown Toronto’s financial district, there is approximately twenty six thousand five hundred square feet on the lower floors three through fourteen while there is about twenty seven thousand two hundred and fifty sq ft on the higher levels fifteen through and twenty six. The design of this downtown Toronto office tower for lease is very impressive featuring one dedicated service elevator of course, two parking shuttles for tenants and occupants in addition to six low-rise and six high-rise elevators to whisk you to your floor. The security is impeccable as well and there is planned manned security for twenty four seven and with card access for controlled access. As for parking at the new 18 York St Toronto office space for lease, there is one stall underground for every twenty six hundred sq ft of rentable office area in the tower.

Downtown Toronto Office Space for Lease

With an impeccable location, the 18 York Toronto office high-rise tower will be conveniently located within the heart of the Financial District in downtown and will be within five minutes walk to Union Station for GO Transit, TTC Subway in addition to Royal Bank Plaza, Fairmont Royal York, TD Centre, Exchange Tower, First Canadian Place, Scotia Place, Commerce Court, BCE Place, Hockey Hall of Fame, Hummingbird Centre, Air Canada Centre (offering an extensive range of food services, including off-site caterint), 25 York new office tower under construction Maple Leaf Square (office, retail and condo complex under construction), Cadillac/Lanterra (existing surface parking lot), Metro Toronto Convention Centre, CN Tower, Intercontintental Hotel and Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Simcoe Place and Roy Thomson Hall. The Owner of the pre-construction 18 York Street Toronto Office Tower space for lease includes the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and the developer is GWL Realty Advisors. The Construction Manager is EllisDon and the Mechanical Consultant is the Mitchell Partnership Inc. The architect for the pre-construction Toronto 18 York office high-rise tower space for rent is KPMB and the landscape consultant is Corban and Goode. The LEED consultant for the pre-construction 18 York Street Toronto high-rise office for rent is Halsall Associates Limited. For leasing information regarding the Toronto office tower at 18 York Street, please contact Peter S., the senior director of leasing for GWL Realty Advisors at 416.552.5959 or peter.stafl@gwlra.com.

The Leasing Toronto Office Space Environmental Features

At 18 York Street, you will find that most environmentally friendly and LEED compliant office tower building in downtown Toronto real estate. Designed inside and out to be a sustainable and low maintenance building, the pre-construction 18 York Toronto office tower for lease commits itself to greenhouse gas reduction, environmental system integration and energy conservation on every level. Designed and hopefully certified LEED Gold when completed, the 18 York Toronto office space for rent has an urban forest, a green roof, daylight harvesting of light and dimmable lighting technology in addition to efficient under floor HVAC systems per floor. In addition, the leasing Toronto office space at 18 York Street also features high performance glazing to reduce energy consumption with motorized window shades and fritting in addition to high efficiency condensing boilers for heating. The office building also uses Enwave Deep Lake Cooling and thermal water storage. The LEED Gold certification design of the pre-construction Toronto office space for lease in the financial district leads to healthier office spaces, improved indoor environment for tenants as well as lower operating and maintenance costs over time.