The Stay Inn Hospitality hotel will have 13 floors and 165 suites.
A plan to build a 13-story hotel at Humber Bay Shores is getting closer to becoming a reality.
The hotel has been approved by the Etobicoke York Community Council and the City Solicitor was seeking instructions from City Council at a December 13 meeting.
The matter goes before an Ontario Land Tribunal hearing scheduled for January 15, 2024.
Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications were submitted in February 2020 to permit the development of the boutique hotel which will have 165 suites and a ground floor restaurant.
The hotel hopes to attract tourists to the area to enjoy a ground floor restaurant.
The Stay Inn Hospitality will be a midsize hotel at 2157 Lake Shore Blvd. W. and have a total floor area of about 7,810.5 square metres.
The proposed hotel would have 36 parking spaces, which community members say is not enough.
Jim Reekie, of Humber Bay Shores Community Association, said his members are not opposed to the hotel.
“We did have a community meeting with city staff and the developer and we are not opposed to having this hotel in the community,” Reekie said in a letter to City Council. “We do have concern about the on-site parking which we feel is not enough.”
The hotel’s ground floor restaurant would bring visitors to Humber Bay Shores, the company said on its website.
The boutique hotel will fit right in with other tall condos in Humber Bay Shores.
“Our hotel would meet a need for comfortable places to stay for both travelers and guests of nearby condominium residents,” the hotelier wrote. “We want to give business travelers and tourists seeking a wellness focused experience a home base.”
Company officials said theirs is a unique hotel with a green focus that will bring jobs to the community and capitalize on transit connections.
The proposed hotel uses would provide about 40 to 50 full-time jobs to the community. It will also create jobs in the construction process.
“The City of Toronto has given direction for new business development in the tourism sector,” the company said. “A hotel would represent a boost to the local economy.”
They said the hotel will be close to transit, including a proposed TTC hub, Park Lawn GO Train Station and Waterfront LRT.
“Our vision is a for a hotel where it’s just as easy to hop on transit, use car-share, or walk, as it is to drive,” hotel officials said.
The site was previously occupied by the Silver Moon Motel, which was demolished in 2008. It was one of more than a dozen mostly family-run motels that once thrived in the area.