875 Queen East Lofts

What this building is

875 Queen East Lofts is a soft loft at 875 Queen Street E, in Leslieville. It was purpose-built as housing in 2019, not converted from an earlier use. The catalogue records 122 units.

Purpose-built in the loft idiom: open plans, tall windows and exposed services, but new construction rather than a conversion.

875 Queen East is a seven-storey mixed-use building on the south side of Queen Street East between Booth Avenue and Logan Avenue in Leslieville. It was developed by Harhay Developments and designed by OFFICEArchitecture, and it contains 122 condominium units above ground-floor retail. The building also incorporates the Red Door Family Shelter, which occupies four floors and is entered from Booth Avenue.

The site was formerly occupied by Woodgreen United Church, in whose basement volunteers opened the Red Door shelter in 1982, together with a two-storey building at the corner of Logan Avenue. After the property was placed in receivership and acquired for redevelopment, the City of Toronto, the shelter and Harhay reached an agreement in March 2015 under which the new building would include about 20,000 square feet of shelter space, owned by the City and leased to the Red Door. Demolition of the church and the corner building was under way in December 2016. By February 2019 the structure was complete and partly enclosed in cladding, and the shelter reopened in its new space in June 2021.

The Queen Street frontage is divided into narrow retail units at grade, with residential floors above. The 501 Queen streetcar runs along Queen Street East in front of the building, and Jimmie Simpson Park and its recreation centre lie across Queen Street to the north.

Sources: Throwback Thursday: 875 Queen East, UrbanToronto (Feb 2019); Construction Progresses on Three Queen East Developments, UrbanToronto (1 Oct 2018); Agreement reached to save the Red Door Family Shelter, Red Door / Newswire (9 Mar 2015); 875 Queen East project thread (quotes City of Toronto release of 17 June 2021), UrbanToronto.

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Before you buy here

Sourced, dated guides to the questions that come up with a building like this one:

• Hard lofts and soft lofts: what the terms mean and what to check
• Status certificates for Toronto condos and lofts: what they say and the 10-day rule
• Condo reserve funds, reserve fund studies and special assessments in Ontario
• Lofts in Leslieville: the neighbourhood guide