A multiplex reno tries to fit in

Developer Brendan Charters switches easily from Shakespearean – ”if a renter pricks, do they not bleed?” – to Sinatra’s “I’m so proud I’m bustin’ my vest” as he looks around the kitchen.

“I actually love coming in here,” he says of the rental property Eurodale Developments, the company he co-founded with Jim Cunningham, created at 31 Roslin Ave. near Toronto’s tony Teddington Park neighbourhood. “The plants on the windowsill, the pot on the stove – people are living here. It was an uphill battle, it was a tremendous amount of work … but the house was unlivable when we bought it.”