News and Events

Come To the Block Party: March 29, 2008
Toronto developer Tridel was looking at a property in the city's Upper Jarvis neighbourhood, at Sherbourne just south of Bloor Street
Lisa Van De Ven - National Post
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Big Buildings, Big Moves: January 24, 2008
Four Seasons Sales Office Relocated; James Cooper Mansion Up Next
Justin Skinner - InsideToronto.ca
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Innovation in Collaboration and Engineering Makes Canadian History

Tridel’s James Cooper Mansion Media Event: November 1, 2007

Toronto City Councillor, Kyle Rae, and Tridel President, Leo DelZotto, announced a major historical event in Canadian and City history. Through extraordinary innovations in collaboration and engineering together with the City, Community and the development industry, Tridel has broken new ground with the adaptive-reuse of the 1881 James Cooper Mansion located at 582 Sherbourne Street at Linden just south of Bloor Street. The past and the future will converge in the design of this new residential community, where turn-of-the-century architecture in the form of the original James Cooper Mansion, will be integrated into a modern, environmentally sustainable 32-storey condominium community.

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November 1, 2007 - Elegant Heritage Mansion Saved For New Condo Tower
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Company to move mansion to make room for high-rise
Danny Gallagher - Globe and Mail

Nov. 1, 2007. When Tridel Corp. won approval from the city to develop the site of the James Cooper Mansion on Sherbourne Street, south of Bloor Street, a stipulation was attached.The company couldn't demolish the 125-year-old building to make way for a 32-storey condominium because the city had designated it as a landmark under the Ontario Heritage Act. So Tridel will essentially pick the mansion up and move it to the front of the lot, then drop a 281-unit condo tower behind it. Read more.