Why the price is a band and not a number.

We haven’t signed a lease yet. That is the whole reason the packages are published as ranges instead of a price list. What a room costs to run depends on the building — the rent, the ceiling height, the parking, how many washrooms it already has. None of those are numbers I get to know before I sign.

There were two easy ways out of that and I didn’t take either. One is to print a single attractive figure now and quietly walk it back once the lease exists, which is a lie with a delay on it. The other is the price list that opens with the word “from”, which this whole category has taught people to read as “more than this, and we’ll tell you how much more on the phone”. Both work. Both would cost me the only thing I have before there’s a building.

So both ends get printed. The Space is $1,200–$1,500 Monday to Thursday and $1,600–$2,200 Friday to Sunday, and if we end up at the top of that band, you already knew the top of that band. Three things move the number: the day of the week, how long you need the room, and how finished you want it when you walk in. Nothing else. No seasonal surcharge, no per-head fee, no charge for serving what you actually eat.

The add-ons don’t depend on the room, so those stay exact to the dollar — overtime is $175 an hour, a chafing dish set of four is $140, and neither of those changes when a lease gets signed. The package bands are also 2027 dollars rather than today’s, because that’s the year you’d be standing in the room.

When we sign, the bands become a price. Founding families won’t feel that: their price can’t go above the top of today’s published range for their day, and if it comes in lower, they pay lower. Every band, package and add-on is on one page, with the 13% HST named beside it.