Chelsea Hotel, Toronto

The Chelsea Hotel, Toronto is the largest hotel in Canada, located at 33 Gerrard Street West in Toronto, Ontario. The 24 floor, hotel contains 1,590 guest rooms and suites, with 5 basements and 18 elevators.

History

The structure originally received funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to be constructed as a student housing cooperative and then was planned as a residential condominium building. However, it eventually opened as a hotel on October 15, 1975, operated by Delta Hotels as Delta's Chelsea Inn. The hotel was purchased in 1996 by Great Eagle Holdings of Hong Kong.
On December 19, 2012, Great Eagle Holdings announced it would end its management agreement with Delta Hotels on July 1, 2013, and place the property, by then known as Delta Chelsea Toronto, under the control of its subsidiary, Langham Hospitality Group in their Eaton Hotels division, which has since been rebranded as Eaton Workshop Hotels. It was reported that Great Eagle Holdings would not commit to renovations that Delta sought in order to upgrade the hotel. Ken Greene, president and CEO of Delta Hotels, stated that "It was a tough decision to part ways", adding, "This is symbolic of the repositioning that Delta is going through. It definitely shows that we are very serious about becoming the leading four-star brand." Delta had announced that it was building a new flagship hotel in Toronto's South Core district as part of a development led by its parent company at the time, the British Columbia [Investment Management Corporation].
The hotel changed its name to the Eaton Chelsea on July 1, 2013.
In 2016, although still part of Langham Hospitality Group, the hotel was removed from the Eaton Brand and renamed Chelsea Hotel Toronto.