Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
General information
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Address 123 Queen Street West
Coordinates 43°39′04″N 79°23′03″W / 43.65111°N 79.38417°W / 43.65111; -79.38417Coordinates: 43°39′04″N 79°23′03″W / 43.65111°N 79.38417°W / 43.65111; -79.38417
Construction started 1970
Completed 1972
Height
Roof 135 m (443 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 43

The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel is a Sheraton 1450-room hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1][2] It is the second-tallest all-hotel building in Toronto, after the Delta Toronto Hotel.[3][4]

The hotel opened on October 16, 1972[5] as the Four Seasons Sheraton Hotel, a joint venture between Sheraton and Toronto businessman Issy Sharp's Four Seasons chain.[6] At the time, it was the second-largest hotel in Toronto, behind only the Royal York Hotel. Sharp was unhappy with the partnership, and sold his 49 percent share in the hotel in 1976 for $18.5 million, and it was renamed The Sheraton Centre of Toronto.[7] The name has since been modified slightly to the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Marriott International, Sheraton's parent company, sold the hotel to Brookfield Asset Management in 2017 for $335 million.[8]

The hotel consists of three connected buildings located between Queen, York, and Richmond streets: the three-floor entrance, the eleven-floor building on Richmond Street, and the main building, which has 43 floors and faces Queen Street.[9] The project was developed by John B. Parkin Associates.[10] The inner yard contains a landscaped garden with a waterfall, which was designed by a Canadian architect, J. Austin Floyd.[9] The hotel has 171,716 sq ft of total event space,[11] the largest hotel convention facilities in Toronto,[12] including a ballroom with a capacity of 3500. The hotel lobby serves as one of the nodes of the PATH network of pedestrian tunnels.

Broadcasting

The transmitter for CIRR-FM is located atop the hotel.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sheraton Centre Hotel". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  2. ↑ "Sheraton Centre Hotel". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  3. ↑ "Sheraton Centre Hotel". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
  4. ↑ "Sheraton Centre Hotel". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
  5. ↑ https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?searchPageType=vrl&Ntt=Four+Seasons+Hotel&Ntk=Subject_Search_Interface&Nso=1&Ns=p_pub_date_sort&N=38537+4293412192&view=list
  6. ↑ "Metro's Hotel Boom." Toronto Star. January 1, 1972.
  7. ↑ https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/businesses-and-occupations/four-seasons-hotels
  8. ↑ "Brookfield arm buys Sheraton hotel in Toronto for $335M in landmark deal". CBC News. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Lerner, Loren R.; Williamson, Mary F. (1991). Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. 1. University of Toronto Press. p. 961. ISBN 9780802058560.
  11. ↑ https://www.marriott.com/hotels/event-planning/business-meeting/yyztc-sheraton-centre-toronto-hotel/
  12. ↑ http://www.cvent.com/rfp/toronto-on-event-venues-69e3564238ea41b6989efbbbc111ee78.aspx
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