Chelsea Hotel, Toronto
| Chelsea Hotel, Toronto | |
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The balconies of the hotel in 2011
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| General information | |
| Location | 33 Gerrard Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°39′31″N 79°22′59″W / 43.6585°N 79.38315°WCoordinates: 43°39′31″N 79°22′59″W / 43.6585°N 79.38315°W |
| Opened | October 15, 1975 |
| Owner | Great Eagle Holdings, Hong Kong |
| Management | Langham Hospitality Group |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 26 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Crang and Boake |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 1,590 |
| Number of restaurants | 3 |
| Website | |
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The Chelsea Hotel, Toronto (formerly the Delta Chelsea Toronto and briefly the Eaton Chelsea) in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest hotel in Canada. Located at 33 Gerrard Street West, it contains 1,590 guest rooms and suites on 26 floors, with 5 basements and 18 elevators. It originally received funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to be built as a student housing co-operative but was then planned as a residential condominium building by Toronto architectural firm Crang and Boake, but it opened as a hotel on October 15, 1975. The 26 floor 83.72 metres (274.7 ft) original single-tower structure was purchased by Great Eagle Hotels in 1996. It was part of the Delta Hotels chain from its opening until July 2013.
The Chelsea Hotel is located within the Downtown Yonge area of downtown Toronto. It is situated between the College station and Dundas TTC subway stations on the Yonge-University-Spadina Line.
On December 19, 2012, hotel owner Great Eagle Holdings Ltd. announced that it would end its management agreement with Delta Hotels on July 1, 2013, and place the property under the control of its own subsidiary, Langham Hospitality Group. It was reported that Great Eagle would not commit to renovations that Delta sought to upgrade the facility.
The hotel changed its name from the Delta Chelsea to the Eaton Chelsea on July 1, 2013. Ken Greene, president and CEO of Delta Hotels, stated that "It was a tough decision to part ways", adding, "This is symbolic of the repositioning that Delta is going through. It definitely shows that we are very serious about becoming the leading four-star brand." Delta had announced that it was building a new flagship hotel (the Delta Toronto Hotel) in Toronto's South Core district as part of a development led by its parent company at the time, the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.
The Eaton Hotels chain also has hotels in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New Delhi. Although the Toronto hotel has a marketing partnership with the nearby Toronto Eaton Centre, it has no corporate relationship to the mall, nor does the hotel chain have any historical connection to the mall's namesake, Timothy Eaton, or the defunct Eaton's department store chain that he had founded.
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