Getting to know Eleven 21

Recently, I took a walk downtown Toronto, looking around the Bay Streeet neighbourhood. I wanted to learn more about a particular condo building. Let me share with you my impressions.

Eleven 21 condos , at 1121 Bay opens its doors on this overcast day to reveal a shiny marble floor in the eye-shaped lobby. In the center of this eye is inlaid a black and orange sun. A wall of frosted glass bricks with raised wedge-like slashes arcs along one side of the oval entrance like an eyelid.

Palestinian Mostafa Omar is the site’s property manager and well-dressed concierge. At his post since it opened six years ago, he calls the building’s design “the greatest” among the other Bay Street contenders “because of its simplicity.”

If there’s one word that almost universal to describe Toronto, it’s multicultural.

”People from all aspects of life live here,” he said, ”students, young professionals, chairmen of big corporations. This is a little… what do you call it? A little U.N.”

Omar said since moving to Toronto nearly 20 years ago, he wouldn’t live anywhere else. He feels comfortable here with the five backgrounds he and his wife represent – Palestinian, Egyptian, Japanese and Saudi.

One change he seen over the years has been driven by the Bay Street condos boom.

The very high end condos springing up around Eleven 21 have made them improve their service. “That’s competition,” he says.

Eleven 21 includes board rooms, fitness and playrooms as amenities.

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