Northern Light
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Huh, @Paclo really relying on me to share all the juicy stuff. LOL
Radical re-work of the ground floor here:
The revised ground floor layout tells the tale:
The retail space on the Birchmount frontage has more than doubled in size to ~15,000ft2 This is intended as a grocery store, and indications are a prospective tenant has informed the choices here.
This is good! A much needed improvement.
Also, the elevator ratio has improved substantially at 5 elevators to 526 units or 1 elevator per 105 units. Much better!
There are some questionable aesthetic choices in the drawings, as @AlbertC duly noted with colourful allusion........ but functionally, this is a quite a bit better.
A functional problem, however, does remain. The unit sizes are too small in the current market.
~500ft2 for a 1bdrm?
I mean, I've seen worse. But in general, the 1 beds need to rise to the 1 bed + Den standard in ft2, though I don't think I would bother with the 50ft2 'pretend den' and instead allocate that space, as appropriate to kitchen/living or the bedroom.
The 2 beds are more reasonable. The 3s are fine.
They're also keeping this as 'condo' which makes no sense in the current market, at all.
If they plan on holding for 5 years, maybe.............but if they are intending to build/jv to build etc............this needs to go rental. This is not a neighbourhood where a luxury configuration would make any sense, so this needs to be aimed at single/couples/families and specifically tenants.
Radical re-work of the ground floor here:
The revised ground floor layout tells the tale:
The retail space on the Birchmount frontage has more than doubled in size to ~15,000ft2 This is intended as a grocery store, and indications are a prospective tenant has informed the choices here.
This is good! A much needed improvement.
Also, the elevator ratio has improved substantially at 5 elevators to 526 units or 1 elevator per 105 units. Much better!
There are some questionable aesthetic choices in the drawings, as @AlbertC duly noted with colourful allusion........ but functionally, this is a quite a bit better.
A functional problem, however, does remain. The unit sizes are too small in the current market.
~500ft2 for a 1bdrm?
I mean, I've seen worse. But in general, the 1 beds need to rise to the 1 bed + Den standard in ft2, though I don't think I would bother with the 50ft2 'pretend den' and instead allocate that space, as appropriate to kitchen/living or the bedroom.
The 2 beds are more reasonable. The 3s are fine.
They're also keeping this as 'condo' which makes no sense in the current market, at all.
If they plan on holding for 5 years, maybe.............but if they are intending to build/jv to build etc............this needs to go rental. This is not a neighbourhood where a luxury configuration would make any sense, so this needs to be aimed at single/couples/families and specifically tenants.
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