THE ARCHITECTURE AND SETTING
The Hazelton Hotel and Private Residences at 118 Yorkville Avenue was completed in 2007 -- the first true five-star luxury hotel built in Toronto in the modern era, and an address whose arrival changed the standard for what hospitality in this city could mean. The nine-storey building occupies the northwest corner of Yorkville and Hazelton Avenues, adjacent to Yorkville Village mall and surrounded by the galleries, restaurants, and boutiques that define the neighbourhood's cultural core.
The terraced limestone exterior, designed with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg -- the Toronto-based firm whose residential and hospitality work defines a generation of luxury design globally -- gives the building a refinement that communicates its intentions immediately. This is not a building that hedges. It is a building with a clear point of view about what a great address looks like.
Hotel suites occupy floors two through four. The sixteen private residences occupy floors five through nine. Private elevator access separates the residential experience from the hotel's throughput entirely -- residents arrive as residents, not as guests in a building that also happens to contain private homes.
THE RESIDENCES
Sixteen suites. That is the entire private residential component of the Hazelton Hotel. The smallest suite is approximately 2,815 square feet. The penthouse reaches 8,100 square feet across two levels.
Interiors were designed by Yabu Pushelberg -- the same firm responsible for the hotel itself, which means the residential specification exists in genuine continuity with the building's broader design language rather than as a separately conceived product. Ten-foot ceilings. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Wide-plank hardwood flooring. Modern kitchens specified at a hotel standard. Private terraces on the upper floors, with views across Yorkville Avenue toward the neighbourhood's cultural core.
Many of the suites have been extensively customised by their owners over the years since completion, which means available inventory at the Hazelton tends to be better than new -- brought forward by owners who have invested in the residences with the same care they bring to any property they hold. The building's age is not a liability. Its track record is an asset.
THE HOTEL SERVICES
The residential offer at 118 Yorkville Avenue is inseparable from the hotel services available to residents. Twenty-four-hour room service from the hotel kitchen -- not a modified version of it, but the actual hotel service available to guests in the rooms below. The Spa at The Hazelton by Valmont, which operates as one of the finest hotel spas in Canada. The indoor lap pool and full fitness centre. Mark McEwan's ONE Restaurant, whose patio on the corner of Yorkville and Hazelton is among the most recognisable dining locations in the city.
A private screening room. Meeting facilities. All of this available to the sixteen residents of the building as a matter of course, handled through the same concierge team that services the hotel. The operational model is identical to what the Four Seasons delivers to its residential floors -- the model for which there is no residential alternative. You cannot hire a concierge, a spa, and a five-star kitchen for your building individually. You can purchase a residence in a building that already has them.
PARKING AND VALET
Valet parking is provided through the hotel's parking operation, with 24-hour availability and the staffing levels of a full-service luxury hotel. Residents do not manage their own parking. The vehicle is handled; the resident is not involved.
PETS
Pets are permitted at The Hazelton Private Residences. The building's rules prohibit attack dogs but otherwise allow animals with appropriate management. Buyers should confirm the current specific rules through the status certificate before purchasing. Nissan Michael can assist with that review.
THE LOCATION
The corner of Yorkville Avenue and Hazelton Avenue is the geographic and cultural centre of the neighbourhood. Yorkville Village mall is immediately adjacent. The galleries and boutiques of Hazelton Avenue begin at the building's front door. Bloor Street's Mink Mile is a three-minute walk to the south. The subway is four minutes.
For a buyer whose priority is access to Yorkville's full cultural and dining offer from a residence that delivers hotel-level service, there is no more central address in the neighbourhood. 118 Yorkville is not adjacent to Yorkville. It is Yorkville.
THE MARKET
With sixteen residences in a building that has been established for nearly two decades, the Hazelton's private residences trade rarely and with discretion. Sales here do not typically flow through standard MLS channels -- they move through agent relationships and private networks. The buyer for this building tends to be someone who understands exactly what they are acquiring: a residence in the most service-intensive address in Yorkville, operated to a hotel standard that cannot be replicated in a standard condominium building regardless of its amenity package.
The combination of Yabu Pushelberg design, Mark McEwan dining, and the Hazelton Hotel operating standard makes this building unique in the Toronto market. There is no other address in the city that delivers the same combination.
Looking to buy or sell at The Hazelton Private Residences? Contact Nissan Michael -- Mr. Yorkville -- for private access, current pricing, and expert representation at this address.
