Among
the projects Harry Stinson has designed or developed
are:
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The
Candy Factory Lofts
The city´s first major loft conversion project,
The Candy Factory warehouse covered an entire city
block. It is still widely acknowledged as the catalyst
to the redevelopment of the downtown west district
and the inspiration for the explosive growth of Toronto’s
downtown residential condominium lifestyle.
In
June 2006, Toronto Life Magazine listed Stinson’s
Candy Factory project as one the “Ten Most Important
Events in Toronto’s History.
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The
Knitting Mill
Stinson Realty was originally the marketing co-ordinator
for this loft project, but ended up taking over and
completing the development on behalf of the Laurentian
Bank.
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The
Victorian
Trilet Developments had originally hired an alternate
firm to market this high-rise tower at Richmond and
Yonge. When the developer realized that his previous
broker had sold the suites too inexpensively, the
developer hired Stinson to reposition and remarket
the building. Although the building was already half-built,
Stinson cost-effectively redesigned and repositioned
the project, raising the sale values by over $150/sq.ft.,
thus allowing the builder to complete the project
profitably.
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**Grangetown
Canada’s major condominium developer, Tridel
Corporation, engaged Stinson to co-ordinate the conversion
of a complex, and functionally obsolete retail mall
into a residential community. Stinson repositioned
the project and was able to sell the suites at prices
that were higher than being achieved by nearby luxury
highrise towers
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Graphic
Arts Building
Working with The Sheppard Group, Stinson rescued the
historic 1912 Graphic Arts Building in the heart of
Toronto’s Financial District, which had been
abandoned and approved for demolition by a previous
developer. This imposing building once served as the
commercial art studio for the legendary Group of Seven
painters, as the editorial office and printing plant
of Saturday Night Magazine, the home of the Press
Club, and as the original baronial Hy’s Steakhouse
where many business deals were hatched. Stinson redesigned
the building into live-work lofts, and retained the
ground floor as corporate office for the Stinson companies,
in the process restoring the wood paneling, white
marble and wrought iron features.
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High
Park Lofts
Launched in the year 2000, this 93-suite mid-rise,
new construction building was Toronto’s first
major residential condominium project to utilize geothermal
heating. While considered eccentric at the time, the
energy-conserving design proved visionary in its timing
and resulted in the project achieving above-average
sale values.
Similar
to the impact of the earlier Candy Factory Lofts project
impact on the downtown Toronto warehouse district,
High Park Lofts has rejuvenated the Roncesvalles Village
neighbourhood as a fashionable address.
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One
King West – Condominium Hotel
Initially this pencil-thin 51-storey condominium/apartment-hotel
project in Toronto´s downtown financial district
was considered structurally impossible to build, and
Stinson’s proposed pricing ($500 + per square
foot) regarded – by ‘experts’ –
as unattainable in Toronto in the year 2000. Nevertheless,
Stinson built the building and sold the suites.
1
King West is now regarded as the most impressive new
structure on the Toronto skyline (including statements
to this effect by Mayor David Miller and a publicly-voted
award as the most admired residential building in
Toronto). The project led to a whole new market for
premium residential properties in the downtown core,
and was in fact cited as the ‘proof precedent’
by the sponsors of the Trump International Tower (which
has only recently begun construction).
Although independent (without a major brand name flag),
“The Suites at 1 King West” rapidly became
one of the most popular hotels in the city.
Stinson personally set up the hotel operations ‘from
scratch’, and directly operated the hotel for
two years.
Although
control of the hotel business subsequently became
the subject of an intense and very public legal battle,
the hotel operations themselves have been very successful.
The legal dispute in fact relates to the disintegration
of the partnership between the original building developers.
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Sapphire
Tower
In 2004, Stinson launched the Sapphire Tower development,
located within 1 block of City Hall, the Eaton Centre
shopping district, and the downtown financial district.
After
the usual lengthy political process, approval was
obtained for a 60-storey, half-million square foot,
mixed-use tower.
In
2007, Stinson decided to sell the site, receiving
more than triple the purchase price;
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CURRENTLY….
In 2008, Stinson relocated his business and family
to Hamilton, Canada, and began work on acquiring and
redeveloping property in the downtown core of Hamilton.
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