To be quite honest (I apologize if I'm stepping on any toes here), I've never felt great about this project. Sure the location is great, but beyond that... nothing.
They have way too many amenities slated to go in, translation, they will be delayed like they are in other projects and will more than likely come out looking very different than they did in the brochures. Not to mention this many amenities also often means escalating maintenance fees. Seriously; bowling alley, pool, rooftop lounge, terraces, the list goes on and on.
The very notion that engineered hardwood throughout at no extra cost just scares me. That really must be the lowest quality of engineered hardwood known to man.
The sales staff was absolutely awful. The blond woman had the audacity to tell me that they were "on a first name basis with everyone at city hall, so there will be no construction delays". When I was searching for my place last summer I went to almost 20 different sales centres and had phone conversations with a number of others, only at King West Life did I hear something so outrageous.
The structure of releases was sad. The sales staff couldn't give me a straight answer as to when the next 2 towers were going on sale (at the time they were only selling one), I guess "being on a first name basis with everyone at city hall" gave them some sort of super powers to get the place built with no delays and not need to know when they would be releasing the bulk of the units. None the less, about a month and a half after I went there I had read on this site that all three towers were for sale. What a joke.
The plans don't seem to make architectural sense. The unit that I was considering was somewhere in the neighbourhood of 875 sq ft, 2 bed + den. When comparing it to the unit I ended up purchasing elsewhere (960 sq ft. 2 bed + den) it looked way larger on paper, yet when I roped off the dimensions for real in my backyard I found out the real truth if you know what I mean. The floorplan made the den look like the Rogers Centre but when you do the dimensions on your own you find out that its actually closer in size to a minivan.
And lets not forget the architecture... the Chrysler building it is not. I think it's safe to say a Walmart is more architecturally inspiring than this anonymous slab that could really be anywhere.
I understand that the staff and the brochures desperately wanted to sell the place, but I'm not in the business of being fooled by faux plans and greasy used car sales people disguised as expert condo sales people. I liked Liberty Village and I was willing to make some sacrifices to live in that neighbourhood, but my dignity and intelligence cannot be sacrificed.
Good luck to all who bought here, I hope your experience was better than mine and that the place turns out to be what you expected. Please do not take this rant as an attack, I just felt it really needed to be shared.