Delta Toronto Hotel is a

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at 75 Lower Simcoe Street in

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, Canada, that opened on November 27, 2014. It is the Toronto flagship hotel of

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and is located in

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at the intersection of Lower Simcoe Street and

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History

The new hotel's beginning started with the Delta Chelsea's disaffiliation in 2012. On December 19, 2012, Delta Chelsea's owner,

Great Eagle Holdings Great Eagle Holdings Limited () is a Hong Kong real estate company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Through its subsidiaries, it engages in property investment and owns and operates various hotels. Its head office is located at the Great ...

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,

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. It was reported that Great Eagle would not commit to renovations that Delta sought to upgrade the facility. Shortly after the disaffiliation of the Delta Chelsea, Delta began plans for a new hotel in the area known as the South Core and connected to the

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network. The new tower on Lower Simcoe Street was designed by

Page and Steele Page + Steele, formerly known as Page and Steele, is an architecture partnership created in 1926 by Forsey Pemberton B. Page (1885–1970) and W. Harland Steele (1900–1996) in Toronto, Ontario. It is now part of the IBI Group of architectural and ...

/IBI Group Architects. Unlike the former location, the new location fulfilled the chain's desire of becoming an upscale premium hotel. The new Delta Toronto's 567 rooms are used for hotel guests only, with no condo units, but rather extended-stay units for long-term guests.

Rivals

The hotel is one of several new high-end hotels built in Toronto and mostly located near one another: *

Ritz-Carlton Toronto The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto is a luxury hotel and residential condominium building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At , it is one of the tallest buildings in Toronto. It is located at 181 Wellington Street West, on the western edge of the downtown c ...

- opened 2011 * The St. Regis Toronto - opened 2012 *

Shangri-La Toronto Shangri-La Toronto is a luxury hotel and residential condominium building in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was designed by James K. M. Cheng and built by Westbank Projects Corp.; they also designed and built the Living Shangri-La in Van ...

- opened 2012 *

Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto is a complex consisting of a 204-metre, 55-storey residential condominium tower and a 125-meter, 30-storey luxury hotel tower in the Yorkville district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which opened on Oc ...

- opened 2012

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