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DelSuites Turns 23: Celebrating Our Anniversary

November 26, 2021

The Value of Home

Family, community, and redefining the value of home has driven DelSuites since we opened our doors in October 1998. As part of the Tridel Group of Companies, DelSuites shares Tridel’s belief that a home is more than bricks and mortar; instead, it’s defined by the community that connects us to each other and our surroundings.

After 23 years, we can proudly say that a stay with us always feels like home away from home. Since beginning our journey with a small number of properties and suites in Toronto’s downtown core, we’ve grown into the city’s largest extended stays provider, welcoming clients to suites across all of Toronto’s major neighbourhoods. DelSuites has created countless exceptional furnished rental experiences for our clients and their families, with stays that have stretched from the minimum 30 nights to a record-setting 1,794 nights—almost five full years!

Throughout it all, one thing is certain. We are grateful to be a part of advancing the short-term rental industry. At DelSuites, we have one firm belief: to help anyone who needs accommodation find the perfect place to call home, no matter the reason.

“I needed what I thought was temporary housing that turned into more permanent residency due to a personal situation. The situation was exacerbated because of the pandemic, which really forced me to stay put during that time. I chose DelSuites because of the location of the property and the unit itself. It was fully furnished with all of the amenities that I needed so the move was quite easy.” -DelSuites Client at Republic (Midtown Toronto)

Building Community

Building on Tridel’s mission to create inclusive, cohesive, and sustainable communities has allowed us to play a role in the inspiring stories that make Toronto beautiful.

We have been the first place new Canadian immigrants come to rest their heads before finding their permanent home, or a safe landing for families who have survived floods and house fires. We’ve provided an oasis of calm for film actors and crews working long days on hit movie sets and been a sanctuary for patients and their families travelling to Toronto for life-saving surgery.

Every guest who passes through our doors gives us a fresh appreciation for what a city like Toronto is made of: genuine human interactions and interwoven stories that connect us to one another and to places around the world.

For more than two decades, the love for our communities and surrounding neighbourhoods — and drive to help make them stronger — has taken centre stage at DelSuites. It’s inspired us to give back to our communities by making sure families in our neighbourhoods have much-needed furniture and essentials to build solid, stable lives. Committed to helping develop the next generation of industry talent, we have contributed to scholarships in the trades for young Torontonians through the BOLT Foundation, raised money for the Daily Bread Food Bank, aided in hurricane relief efforts, and even made pets feel more at home at the Toronto Humane Society.

Every day at DelSuites we make choices that positively impact our environment by ensuring that our furnished apartments are more ecologically sustainable. We situate our suites in LEED-certified buildings that use 34% less electricity, 57% less natural gas and 43% less potable water than your average high-rise. Over the past five years, we have adapted our business practices to support our environmental commitment as well. DelSuites has moved to fully paperless booking and adjusted our office supply procurement practices in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint.

Our commitment to help strong, sustainable communities has been recognized with awards from both our guests and our industry colleagues. Our guests have honoured us with seven consecutive TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence, and we were the proud recipients of the Corporate Housing Providers Association’s Best Green Progress Award, recognizing our commitment to propelling our industry forward. We were also honoured to receive three nominations for the Americas Expatriate Management and Mobility Award. A huge, heartfelt thank you to our guests and industry associations for these recognitions.

Driving The Future of Furnished Rentals

As short-term furnished rentals evolve to welcome travellers from all walks of life, we’re utilizing new technology to elevate our personable, responsive customer service. To be accessible to everyone, we’ve partnered with all major third-party digital channels and evolved our booking process from telephone and email to an online bookings portal with live rates and opportunities for guests to take full virtual tours from anywhere, 24 hours a day.

Additionally, we’re expanding into studio spaces suited to the independent, agile traveller, and partnering with co-working spaces, grocery delivery services, and other local businesses to make staying in Toronto as seamless as possible while the way we work and live become increasingly more mobile and agile.

Part of a Tridel Community

We’re positioned to embrace new challenges and opportunities that arise over the next few years—but our success to date would not have been possible without the people in our community throughout the past 23 years of learning, growth, innovation, and service.

We rely upon the fierce expertise of the other organizations within the Tridel Group—in property management, sales, seniors’ housing, and longer-term rentals—to make the DelSuites experience incomparable. The collective knowledge of our teams encompasses all aspects of a building—the vision behind what it can be, how it’s built, how it runs and operates, and how it can become a community—is essential to giving our guests a memorable stay.

Thank you to our bookers who work to efficiently house and relocate guests within Toronto. We are proud to work with partners who align with our values and help elevate the DelSuites brand.

Behind it all, our dedicated DelSuites team makes everything happen with their passion. Our staff’s diverse knowledge of hospitality and housing is incomparable, and the ways they support one another makes DelSuites a wonderful place to work. Thank you for making our work home just as comfortable, caring, and excellent as the homes we provide.

Rising High on Our Foundations

We’re still pursuing the principles that we began with 23 years ago, in 1998: home is a precious thing, no matter how long we live there; that our families—biological and chosen—can support each other in magnificent ways; and that we can all go much farther together than we can apart.

In the words of the late Angelo DelZotto, “What we know together is limitless”.

We’re thrilled to see where this journey will continue to take us; thank you for joining us along the way. Here’s to Year 24!

Announcements, Customer Service Experience

DelSuites Celebrates 2021 TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award

October 21, 2021

The DelSuites mission is being there for our guests: bringing you stable, luxurious furnished Toronto short-term rentals to enjoy worry-free.

As travel changed in 2020 in response to COVID-19, we’ve kept up that goal of being there—whether you’re local or international, here for a month or a year—as the world shut down in response to COVID.

DelSuites is pleased and proud that that unprecedented work has been recognized by the TripAdvisor.ca 19th Annual Travellers’ Choice Awards: the guest-voted award for hotels, hospitality providers, and attractions millions of TripAdvisor users agree “consistently deliver fantastic experiences to travellers around the globe.”

TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel discovery platform, connecting 463 million travellers a month with reviews, accommodations, bookings, reservations, and rates.

DelSuites takes a place among winners from six continents and 83 countries as a standout provider in the top ranks of TripAdvisor’s almost 9 million listed businesses. The award is based on consistently excellent user reviews and high guest ratings across all of our Toronto locations.

The DelSuites team is happy to receive this honour for the seventh year in a row. But we’re especially celebrating because of this year’s challenging circumstances: the first year TripAdvisor’s annual travel industry ratings were collected under the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

As much international travel ground to a halt, our guests booked room nights to help or comfort loved ones, stay close to their essential workplaces, protect family members at higher risk, and navigate a year of uncertainty.

Our dedicated team was called upon to not just provide our guests with a comfortable, friendly welcome, but adjust nimble booking policies, offer stability in unstable times, and create safety precautions they could rely on when a place to call home meant more than ever.

“The hospitality industry has been hit extremely hard, including DelSuites,” said DelSuites Marketing Manager Suelyn Bloye. “We rely on visitors from all over the world, and with Canadian borders closed to all non-essential travel this had a huge impact on our business. Despite these challenges, we have pushed through and supported our guests through uncertain times. We are honoured to be recognized directly by them for excellence in hospitality, service, quality, and customer satisfaction.”

We are incredibly proud that we could rise to this unprecedented challenge and provide our guests with not just comfort, but safety precautions they could rely on and the welcome of a true Toronto community.

DelSuites is excited to continue our record of excellence with TripAdvisor—seven Certificates of Excellence since 2014—and extend the pride we take in consistently creating a welcome for our guests into 2021.

Any day, anytime, we at DelSuites are ready to welcome you to Toronto and be your home away from home in one of the world’s most unique, diverse, and dynamic cities.

Announcements, Giving Back

DelSuites Builds Community With Rapid Rehousing Initiative Donation

September 19, 2021
delsuites furniture donation

DelSuites understands how important it is to have a comfortable, safe place to call home. Every day, we go above and beyond to make sure travellers from around the world can step through our doors and relax, knowing we’ve done the rest.

That’s why we’re deeply proud to have donated ten full and six partial sets of modern, stylish furniture—a gift worth $55,000—to the City of Toronto’s Rapid Rehousing Initiative: the city’s primary program for helping chronically homeless Torontonians find stable, permanent homes.

This contribution builds on our April 2020 donation of almost 25 apartments’ worth of furnishings to City of Toronto housing programs—a partnership that proved DelSuites hospitality can make a difference that lasts.

 

More than bare walls or a bandaid solution

The City of Toronto established its Rapid Rehousing Initiative in April 2020, as part of the response to COVID-19. This coordinated approach to public health and fighting poverty offers help to the people who need it most, by permanently housing people who have experienced chronic homelessness.

Recognizing how disproportionately COVID-19 would affect people without homes, the City of Toronto launched a collaborative effort between 20 city agencies, local non-profits like the Toronto Furniture Bank, and the City’s Follow-Up Supports program in March 2020.

By taking a complex, systemic view of what makes homelessness happen, the Rapid Rehousing Initiative helps Torontonians who have repeatedly been without a home not just find one in their own downtown neighbourhoods, but keep that home—and overcome the greater obstacles they’re facing. Furniture, housewares, and lease assistance are provided to give each participant a stable start—one where they can not just survive, but thrive.

Through the City’s Follow-Up Supports program, neighbourhood-based community agencies provide programs, resources, and social supports tailored to help each participant stabilize their future.

In 2020, the Rapid Rehousing Initiative helped 459 people—singles, couples, and families—move into permanent and fully furnished housing.

Phase two of the initiative started in January 2021, bringing 450 more units into the program. 160 Toronto families have already moved in, keys in hand, since June 1, 2021—and set themselves on the path to a better future.

Making a real impact in our community

Our April 2020 partnership with the City of Toronto showed us how much impact stylish, durable furniture can make when you’re starting fresh. Good dishes mean your favourite home cooking; a comfortable couch means time with friends and family; and modern, attractive ready-made décor means an instant boost to dignity.

Starting with a space that’s not just four walls, but a home doesn’t just let people save for education, family, or their future—it creates the place where we can be at peace, feel proud, and flourish.

Having seen the lasting effects of a comfortable space on our neighbours’ lives, we’ve targeted this newest donation to do the most good: help ten households move from living precariously into homes they can take pride in, with fundamentals that were made to last.

As Toronto’s groundbreaking housing program grows, DelSuites will be there to show we know a welcome is something you build every single day—and a welcome is for everyone.

Learn how you can help

Our cities become communities when we all pull together. Learn how you can help bring every Torontonian a safe and stable home at www.toronto.ca/donateTO.

About me, Announcements, Giving Back

DelSuites Working Together with the City of Toronto

June 22, 2021

DelSuites exists because we believe cities are communities—and the best hospitality, whether you’re traveling, recovering from crisis, or new in town, is living right inside our community. In April 2020, COVID-19 made working together more important than ever. So when DelSuites heard about two chances to help our neighbours most in need—newcomers and Torontonians without homes—as DelSuites president Dan Henderson said, “We jumped at the opportunity.”

All the Fundamentals for a Home

In April 2020, the City of Toronto embarked on a huge, life-saving effort to help Torontonians sleeping on streets and in shelters find safe temporary homes—and prevent the spread of COVID-19. The DelSuites team immediately reached out to Mayor John Tory, Deputy Mayor Ana Bailao, and city staff to see where our expertise could make a positive difference.

What City leadership told us they needed was the things that make a house into a home: our specialty.

So in April 2020, DelSuites donated approximately 22-25 entire apartments’ worth of furniture (valued at $120,000) to two programs: the emergency housing effort, and the Transitional Housing Program for Newcomers to Toronto, which temporarily hosts new Torontonians until they can find permanent homes.

Program participants will receive everything they need to not just use their new space, but leave the stress of not having a stable home behind. They’ll walk in to find everything a home needs, from beds, couches, and kitchen tables to dish towels, sheets, and cutlery.

For newcomers to our city, we’ve contributed furniture that’s theirs to keep when they move to their first permanent Toronto homes. Furniture can be a serious expense for families restarting their lives in a new country, and this substantial donation will let our new neighbours spend their first months here building bright futures, knowing their community is here for them.

For Torontonians without homes, we’ve donated full apartment sets of furniture to fill some of the 250 supportive housing units built. This pilot project is the first in a bold new approach to reducing homelessness in Toronto, and we’ve donated furniture that will turn the bare walls of a new house into the kind of comfort, security, and dignified style we’d all hope to come home to.

The modular units that opened in September 2020, people who started sleeping in shelters and on streets moved into permanent, stable housing—and can focus on health, happiness, and rebuilding their lives.

More recently in June 2021, DelSuites donated an additional 13 furnished suites with a face value of 55K to shelters, supporting the City of Toronto Rapid Rehousing Program

Every piece we’ve provided is durable, modern, stylish, and comfortable, so our neighbours can confidently open their new homes to friends and family—and keep that cycle of hospitality and stability going.

“Not only is it a worthy cause, but it’s an important one. We need to do everything we can to give a comfortable accommodation experience to the people who need it the most in this time of crisis, we hope our contribution makes a difference to these families and our community.” — Dan Henderson, President of DelSuites.

Living the Values of Hospitality

This past year has been a difficult time for the hospitality industry, but in hard times, communities pull together. DelSuites is proud to have partnered with the City of Toronto to help provide comfortable, stable homes for the people who need it most in our city.

We’re glad to have the opportunity to make a positive impact, and underline the belief that’s at the core of why we provide comfortable, community-based, flexible accommodations—homes away from home—every day of the week.

That a little thoughtfulness goes the extra mile, that a comfortable place to sleep at night matters, and that providing good hospitality starts at home—and as part of the community.

Announcements, Corporate Housing, Downtown Toronto

Delsuites Announces New Property – Ten York

September 17, 2019

Here at DelSuites we strive to offer the very best short term apartment rentals in Toronto. That’s why we are so excited to announce the newest addition to our property portfolio: Ten York. 

This stunning property embodies the style and quality we have become known for at DelSuites. In a prime location along the waterfront, we think you’ll love this iconic condominium. 

Whether you’re heading to Toronto for a business trip or a vacation, these convenient and well-designed suites would be an ideal place to base yourself. 

Downtown Apartment Living

A glittering landmark on the Toronto skyline, Ten York is a bold, triangular-shaped wedge stretching 735 feet up towards the sky. With 65 floors, the building has everything you’ll need. From a gym to a cafe to meeting rooms and party rooms, this Toronto condo is designed for luxurious urban living. 

Relax in the spa and sauna, or find a moment of zen in the yoga studio – it’s all right here. On a hot summer day, you can take the plunge in the swimming pool or soak up some rays on the sun deck. There’s even a movie theatre where you can enjoy your favourite films in air-conditioned comfort. The concierge is there when you need them – and this residence has received great feedback for customer service. 

Thoughtful, Well-Designed Suites

Each of the suites at Ten York is designed with grace and style – as well as the little details that make your stay nicer. Whether you’re staying for a short visit or a longer time, you’ll love the full-size state-of-the-art appliances, designer-selected finishes and plank hardwood floors. The suites are limited to only six residences per floor, which ensures they are spacious and exclusive with a real sense of privacy. 

The ten foot ceilings and large windows let in plenty of natural light. And of course – there’s the views. Ten York is one of the tallest residential towers in the downtown core, so when you’re on one of the top floors you’ll have a breathtaking view of the city. 

An Enviable Location

Only steps away from the waterfront, your downtown home will be surrounded by the hottest dining, shopping and nightlife in the city. It’s located at the intersection of Queens Quay West & York St, right in the heart of the city. Harbour Square Park and the Harbourfront Centre are only a couple of blocks away. 

Plus, it’s also close to the GO train, Union Station and the subway – which means you can get anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area quickly and easily. With several options for shopping (including Sobeys Urban Fresh Queens Quay) right on your doorstep, you’ll love how convenient it is to stay in this highrise. 

Book Your Stay

To learn more about Ten York and to check availability, click here. If you have questions about this property, or any of our other properties, you can contact us at any time.