2 Prospect St
Toronto, Ontario M4X
A 4-storey, 15-unit private rental building built in 1910.
- Property manager
- Caterina Properties Incorporated
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Issues & maintenance
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City bylaw and health cases
8 bylaw investigations at this address since Oct 2025; 3 still open.
A case starts with a complaint or an officer’s visit, so it is not a finding against the building. In a condo, a complaint about one unit is filed under the building’s address.
- Repairs and upkeep 5
- Garbage 1
- Long grass and weeds 1
- Not enough heat 1
- Sep 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Rescheduled
Case 26 245459 PRS 00 IR
- Sep 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Rescheduled
Case 26 236447 PRS 00 IR
- Sep 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Rescheduled
Case 26 231256 PRS 00 IR
- Aug 2026
GarbageBylaw· Closed
Case 26 226023 WST 00 IR
- Aug 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 219616 PRS 00 IR
- Jul 2026
Long grass and weedsBylaw· Closed
Case 26 199434 LGW 00 IR
Show 2 older cases
- Apr 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 148730 PRS 00 IR
- Oct 2025
Not enough heatBylaw· Closed
Case 25 245900 HEA 00 IR
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City building permits
2 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Fire and life safety 1
- Balcony repair 1
- Oct 2020
Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Permit Issued
Proposal to install sprinklers in an existing apartment building.
Permit 20 210318 FSU
- Jun 2014
Balcony repair · Balcony/Guard Repairs · Closed
To repair the deocrative cornices on the south and west second floor balonconies of the exisiting four storey apartment building.
Permit 14 173199 BLD · est. $35,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
73/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit73
29.7 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 4 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Sherbourne (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 700 m.
- Parks & trees64
17.3 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 70 m. 504 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling89
Within 1 km: 5.65 km of protected lanes, 4.9 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.6 km of shared routes. 9 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby93
11 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Winchester Jr & Sr Public School , 70 m), plus 8 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities74
Within 1 km: 2 libraries, 1 community centre, 13 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety40
4 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Cabbagetown-South St.James Town
- AssaultHigher than most
Higher than 82 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× the city median).
- Break and enterHigher than most
Higher than 87 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.0× the city median).
- RobberyAmong the highest
Higher than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.0× the city median).
- Auto theftAmong the lowest
Lower than 92 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (46% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesHigher than most
Higher than 78 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.4× the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Higher than 51 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Bicycle theftHigher than most
Higher than 89 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (5.5× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Lower than 71 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (72% of the city median).
How often police recorded each crime for every resident of the whole neighbourhood, averaged over 2023–2025. Places many people visit but few live in, like downtown, rank high for that reason alone, so this is not part of the living score.
Air
Don Valley Parkway, 1.1 km away
None reported
Bands: traffic is high within 150 m of an expressway and moderate within 500 m; industrial is moderate under a tonne a year and high above. The industrial bands are ours, for orientation only: ChemTRAC totals mix substances of very different toxicity. Releases are self-reported to the City’s ChemTRAC program. For today’s readings see Air Quality Ontario.
Supervised consumption services
- Nearest site
- Casey House Inpatient Supervised Consumption Services, 590 m
- Sites within 1 km
- 2
Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.
Zoning
Residential
- Category
- General residential
- Zone label
R (d1.0) (x881)- Height limit
- 14 m
Zoning By-law 569-2013, from City of Toronto open data. Exceptions (“x” numbers) and site-specific amendments can change what is allowed; check the City’s zoning map before relying on it.
Nearby change
- Open planning applications within 300 m
- 3
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
405 Sherbourne St · 280 m away
Site plan · Application Received · submitted 2026-03-09
Site Plan Control Application for a 35-storey (112.6) metre building (excluding mechanical penthouse) 25,069 square metres of residential gross floor area and 388 square metres of non-residential gross floor area and a landscaped mid-block
City record240 Wellesley St E · 140 m away
Subdivision · Under Review · submitted 2024-09-30
Draft Plan of Subdivision to establish two development blocks with pedestrian and vehicular connections into and through the subject site. A new public park and publicly-accessible open spaces, framed by the addition of new buildings to be
City record240 Wellesley St E · 140 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2022-04-27
Site Plan Approval application to permit three new buildings on the lands, comprising a 47-storey mixed-use building with 5,770 square metres of non-residential uses in the lower floors and 620 dwelling units, a 21-storey building with 300
City record
Rezonings, site plans and subdivisions submitted in the last five years and still open.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Data as of 2026-10-03. Transit from TTC weekday schedules; parks, trees, cycling, schools, libraries, community centres, child care, collisions, crime, expressways, ChemTRAC releases, planning applications and short-term rental registrations from open.toronto.ca; Bike Share stations from Bike Share Toronto; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada.
From CMHC and the City of Toronto
Rent
Average rents nearby
Monthly rent in purpose-built rental apartments, October 2025.
| Bedrooms | Cabbagetown-South St. James Town | Toronto (Central) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,349 | $1,606 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,903 | $2,042 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $2,331 | $2,776 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $3,580* | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,829 | $2,163 | $1,917 |
Averages over every unit, including long tenancies under rent control, so they run below what a new lease costs today. Condominium units rented out by their owners are not included. “-” means too few units were surveyed to publish; * marks an estimate CMHC rates poor. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Rent reductions after property-tax cuts
When a rental property’s tax falls by more than 2.49%, Ontario law cuts its rents by a matching share, and the City writes to the tenants.
The City’s lists for 2014–2025 have no rent-reduction notices for this address.
Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.
Building facts
From the City of Toronto’s RentSafeTO registry, as reported by the landlord (registered 2017). Not resident reviews.
18 / 100City inspection score, August 2026. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 4
- Units
- 15
- Built
- 1910
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- Caterina Properties Incorporated
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Ground floor, OPEN TO ALL HOURS
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Amenities
- Outdoor rec facilities
- Balconies
- Yes
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 13
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