The site had previously been the Bay Ford Lincoln car dealership, and it is next door to Toronto Fire Services Station 312.

Built by architect Peter Dickinson, it operated as a motor inn before it was demolished and replaced by townhouses.

It consisted of a 31-storey Brutalist concrete tower, with a low-rise podium that stretched south to Cumberland Avenue.

[9] The hotel was popular with celebrities when the Toronto International Film Festival was centred on the Yorkville area.

Finnish businessman Robert Oesterlund and his ex-wife Sarah Pursglove bought the penthouse for $28 million in 2012.