Telsec Business Centres Inc.

Who needs a car downtown Toronto when there are Zipcars and Autoshare locations all over Toronto. There is an Autoshare location within a half block of my downtown Toronto office space in the Toronto Star Building. The condominium building called “Pinnacle” across the road is an Autoshare location. There is a Zipcar location on Queens Quay that is only a two minute walk from 1 Yonge Street.

For those not familiar with Zipcar or Autoshare, these are car sharing and car club services that allow members to utilize a vehicle on an hourly or part day basis. This type of service is easier than Toronto car rental and car ownership. You simply book the car you want at the time and the pick up location. When you arrive at the location, you simply place your access card on the windshield sensor and the doors are unlocked for you. The keys are in the car and you go on your way.

It really is true that you do not need to own a car in downtown Toronto. Whether you live and work downtown or if you commute into downtown via GO Train, Go Bus or VIA Rail to your downtown office space in Toronto, you can use one of these car sharing services. When you just need a car to run around the city for an hour or two, you just reserve one.  Not having to worry about gas and insurance are just two of the added bonuses of using a Zipcar or Autoshare. Each of these companies offers a number of pick up locations throughout the city with a variety of vehicles.

I was in my downtown Toronto office space over looking Harbourfront and the Toronto Islands on Sunday afternoon.  I had to pick a file and wait for a call on my cell phone in order to arrange the drop off of the file.  While I was waiting for the call, I decided to look out the window and enjoy the view.

For a while, I was watching the island ferries crossing the harbour and how the other boats stay clear of them.  Then I say something that baffled me, someone in a kayak cut off a ferry boat. Not even the sailboats or power boats tried this. The ferry had to go into reverse in order to give the person in the kayak a chance to pass.

As I continued to look out the window of my office space in Toronto, I became amused with how the parking lot across the road was filling up, and how bad some people are at parking. I watched one car try four times to get into one of the parallel parking spots, until finally the passenger got out and walked around to take over the parking from the driver. As the the parking lot continued to get fuller, they started to double park the cars.

Meanwhile I glanced over at the ferry docks and noticed that they were loading people on the Trillium (the grand ferry that is normally reserved for special occasions) with people wanting to get over to Centre Island. They really had to be overwhelmed with island goers to have to use The Trillium.

The trillium celebrated her 100th birthday this year. Author Mike Filey (Toronto’s unofficial historian) has published with Dundurn Press of Toronto, a centennial edition of his book “Trillium and Toronto Island“. The book includes the history of The Trillium along with some beautiful colour and black & white photos taken over the years. The book also tells of her retirement in 1956, only to be saved from the scrap yard in 1973. The Trillium made her second debut in 1976 as a fully operational steam ferry.

no hidden costs

When shopping for an office space in Toronto, ask for the whole price upfront. So often when renting Toronto office space for lease, you are not given all the costs until you get your first invoice.

With Telsec business office centres, you are given all the pricing up front and you you will not get any surprises when you get your first invoice. With no hidden costs and no surprises, you can better budget your office space expenses.

Telsec Business Office Centres Inc.  is the only Toronto office space for rent company that lists their office package prices on their website. The website also lists what is included in your office space Toronto and what is available at an extra cost.

When you call to rent your Toronto office space, be sure to mention that you read in the blog that there are no hidden costs.

Toronto Star Building

Now going on two weeks, the Toronto garbage strike does not affect Telsec Office Business Centres.  Our Toronto office space for rent, is located at 1 Yonge Street  in the Toronto Star Building. Redcliff Realty, that manages the The Star building  uses a private  company for garbage and waste  disposal.

When you rent office space in Toronto, you normally have to hire a cleaning service to take out the garbage. With Telsec, whether you rent executive office space,  semi-private offices or even shared office space, we take care of the office cleaning and taking out the garbage.

When it comes to the disposal of recycled paper, each office space for rent also includes a handy recycling bin that is also emptied each night. For your more sensitive document recycling, we have a paper shredder in the photo copier room that is available for your office rental Toronto use.

The recently renovated washrooms and common areas of Telsec’s Toronto office space have a professional look. Washrooms are checked and cleaned several times throughout the day. Hallways are regularly vacuumed and  kept clutter free.   Your office space rental includes access to boardrooms, meeting rooms and kitchen, these as well are monitored by our staff to ensure they are clean and tidy.

With your office space Toronto, we don’t want you to worry about office cleaning and garbage, we want to  allow you to concentrate on your core business without having to worry about the small stuff.