It's all the junk on this building that, if the renderings were right, is going to be added once the finishing touches are applied, that turned a lot of people (me included) against it. Unfortunately we no longer have the renderings attached to this (or any other) thread, afaik, so it's hard to remember just how fussy the details were, but I can tell you that were an excess of cornices and mouldings planned for the exterior. Either those have been cancelled, or they just haven't started applying them yet - let's hope they have been cancelled, as that will definitely improve this building's outlook.
Oh yeah, there was one other little thing that brought this building unlimited scorn during its marketing phase: included in this building's amenities is a planned Karaoke Dinner Club. Really, that sentence should end with 13 exclamation points, but last three words mean that they are there whether I type them or not. Hard to believe, right? And who dreams up stuff like that you ask? Here's who: first time developers in this city who because of their displayed lack of discernment for prevailing cultural values, (a display that included that utterly tacky and embarrassing name that they saddled this development with), you cannot trust to deliver a condominium that will live up to the expectations of the vast majority of the public.
All that said, let's hope that we are proven wrong, and that the powers that be at Backwater Devco. have since hired a few people with the ability to steer the construction phase of this building around the worst of the marketing blunders.
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