[Burnaby] Perspectives | 29 floors | U/C

[SFUVancouver]

Located near the Brentwood Town Centre SkyTrain station.

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6428/p1050586zx4.jpg

More details to come.

[officedweller]

Looks like a decent tower - not sure how they got the promo logo (posted in the Suburban Updates thread) from that tower though...

[David]

decent design for burnaby... i'm sort of thinking that Burnaby has too many buildings with massive roofs. this one is a nice change

[Metro-One]

Edit - Moved to new thread

[LeftCoaster]

That's a different development Metro, what you posted is Citi and Motif, not Perspectives which is located further to the east.

[Metro-One]

Edit

[officedweller]

Thanks for the Citi pics nonetheless.

[SpongeG]

there is a crane up for perspectives

[vanman]

Ledmac has a new fly through vid of perspectives up on their website:

http://www.ledmac.com/video/perspective_carsmoving2.html

[bahbahblacksheep]

when will Perspectives be complete? after what seems like a year of doing the foundation & multi-level parking lot, it seems like there are finally a few stories up these days.

[bahbahblacksheep]

oops

[bahbahblacksheep]

oops

[osirisboy]

hmm well it will probably be the end of 2010. call the developer and ask them when it will be finished

[vansky]

When will Perspectives be complete? After what seems like a year of doing the foundation & multi-level parking lot, it seems like there are finally a few stories up as of fall '09…

never

[SpongeG]

its going up every week

again its in a weird location - surrounded by industrial dead end streets, the area hasn't changed yet to be "residential" enough

[East Van]

working on the 5th or 6th floor now.

[LeftCoaster]

Pics please!

Also maybe a mod could change the title of the thread to U/C?

[bahbahblacksheep]

appears to be on the sixth or seventh floor now. the developer said aiming for fall 2010, but could take as long as spring 2011. but she sounded confident completion will be fall 2010 since the other recent LedMac projects (ex 1: brentwood gate - the six low-rises and tower Fitzgerald; ex 2: silhouette towers by lougheed mall; ex 3: low-rise condos Memento) were all completed on time or even a bit earlier than the predicted schedule. i am just curious about perspectives because i am looking to purchase sometime next year, in that area. oma and tandem are nice inside but the exterior is not that great.

[bahbahblacksheep]

also, the developer said that the city of Burnaby wants to get rid of all those ugly big industrial stores/offices and turn that whole area into a nice PARK! and douglas road will be closed off (turned into a cul-de-sac) when perspectives complete. no more turning right or left onto lougheed highway. that should quiet down the area a bit. and dawson street will be extended all the way to douglas road.

[Metro-One]

And we lose yet another parcel of industrial land and jobs close to skytrain and the city...

[Spork]

I don't think that industrial land is well suited to transit, no matter what you do. The density per worker is just too low. Office is much better suited.

[Metro-One]

:previous: Well if they were replacing those industrial lands with high density office projects, then that would be good, more local jobs, but instead it is just going to be more condos.

[Millennium2002]

in a sense we need a mix of both... which i haven't really seen occur yet.

i think this might be due to low office demand and high land prices.

[Alex Mackinnon]

in a sense we need a mix of both... which i haven't really seen occur yet.

i think this might be due to low office demand and high land prices.

Now if only someone was willing to develop a office tower with a industrial podium. I've been trying to make something in sketchup along that lines, but let's just say my sketchup skills are pretty craptastic at this point.

[SpongeG]

:previous: Well if they were replacing those industrial lands with high density office projects, then that would be good, more local jobs, but instead it is just going to be more condos.

they are trying to move burnabys industrial to the south along the river and make this area residential

dumb idea but thats what they are doing - i would think riverside condos and hwy #1 industrial parks would make more sense

[Metro-One]

:previous: Fantastic point SpongeG. Does it not make sense to keep the industrial grounds close the highway 1? If they are all moved into south Burnaby that is going to clog up Marine Way all the way to Brunette interchange even worse.

Again, that entire area should remain office and industrial with condos only built directly around the M- Line stations. No more rezoning, there is plenty of low density residential landi n the area to build condos upon without taking land out of commercial and industrial zones.

[East Van]

also, the developer said that the city of Burnaby wants to get rid of all those ugly big industrial stores/offices and turn that whole area into a nice PARK! and douglas road will be closed off (turned into a cul-de-sac) when perspectives complete. no more turning right or left onto lougheed highway. that should quiet down the area a bit. and dawson street will be extended all the way to douglas road.

The dead end section of Dawson east of Beta is about to get busy.

Does anyone have the link to Burnaby's future road network in this area ? They need to get Still Creek Ave connected with the new Wayburne overpass asap.

pics from today.
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff329/Infiniti_G/10142009023.jpg
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff329/Infiniti_G/10142009024.jpg

[bahbahblacksheep]

they are trying to move burnabys industrial to the south along the river and make this area residential

dumb idea but thats what they are doing - i would think riverside condos and hwy #1 industrial parks would make more sense

how do you know the city of burnaby is moving the industrial crap to south bby? where do you find that out?

East Van, thank you for the photos. it appears that they are working on the 8th floor (7th storey) now. the developer told me it has 33 floors (29 stories in total), excluding floors 4, 13 (as usual), 14, and 24. suites with "4" never sold well with the Asian community. =P

i found this online: http://www.burnaby.ca/cityhall/departments/departments_building/bldng_prmtsi/permits_issued09/march09/March_13__2009_Permits_Issued.html ("New 29 storey residential apartment building/215 units on 4 levels of underground parking. *Refer to MASTER PERMIT BLD07-01568 for construction value, fees paid, and total # of units.")

And behind the tower will be 8 townhomes facing dawson street ("4901-4923 Dawson St- 8 new townhouse units *Refer to MASTER PERMIT BLD07-01568 for construction value, fees paid, and total # of units.")

[Alex Mackinnon]

The problem with putting larger buildings in big bend is that they're built over what used to be cranberry fields. That area is a fair ways out into the delta, so they'd probably have to add a fair bit of piling before they could add more floors.

May as well dense on competent soil.

[SpongeG]

how do you know the city of burnaby is moving the industrial crap to south bby? where do you find that out?

East Van, thank you for the photos. it appears that they are working on the 8th floor (7th storey) now. the developer told me it has 33 floors (29 stories in total), excluding floors 4, 13 (as usual), 14, and 24. suites with "4" never sold well with the Asian community. =P

i found this online: http://www.burnaby.ca/cityhall/departments/departments_building/bldng_prmtsi/permits_issued09/march09/March_13__2009_Permits_Issued.html ("New 29 storey residential apartment building/215 units on 4 levels of underground parking. *Refer to MASTER PERMIT BLD07-01568 for construction value, fees paid, and total # of units.")

And behind the tower will be 8 townhomes facing dawson street ("4901-4923 Dawson St- 8 new townhouse units *Refer to MASTER PERMIT BLD07-01568 for construction value, fees paid, and total # of units.")

it doesn't take a genuius to drive down marine way and see the growing industrial office parks in south burnaby :shrug:

its in the plan for the area - which is available somewhere on this forum that shows the "industrial" area around brentwood south east to be replaced with towers, apartments and a school or tow and some parks

they knocked down a building to put up two towers which have since been cancelled apparently

[gillty]

also, the developer said that the city of Burnaby wants to get rid of all those ugly big industrial stores/offices and turn that whole area into a nice PARK! and douglas road will be closed off (turned into a cul-de-sac) when perspectives complete. no more turning right or left onto lougheed highway. that should quiet down the area a bit. and dawson street will be extended all the way to douglas road.

The dead end section of Dawson east of Beta is about to get busy.

Does anyone have the link to Burnaby's future road network in this area ? They need to get Still Creek Ave connected with the new Wayburne overpass asap.

no thanks to the wayburne overpass + i doubt its going to happen anytime soon. But go ahead and extend dawson to douglas. I live directly south of perspectives, 5 years ago great view not so much any more.:yuck:

I'd actually rather keep that crappy low rise industrial in the area, its unobtrusive for us residents south of the hwy1, and its has its benefits like a purolator distribution centre so i can pick up my missed packages in 5 mins or less.:banana:

i guess i'm now a nimby :notacrook:

[mr.sandbag]

last year my partner and i almost bought into this building but changed our minds, good thing we bought into mt pleasant instead and are way better for it, anyways, from what the developer showed me was everything south of the tracks will stay industrial and everything north from holden stn to gilmore stn will be a mix of low to high rise with some mix use developments along major roads, should be really nice when all completed since there will parks and schools built as well.

[gillty]

update
http://i34.tinypic.com/30c28g6.jpg

soruce: me (10 minutes ago)

[SFUVancouver]

Thank you for the shot. It certainly has gained some height since the last time I was in the area.

I wonder if anyone has information about what the ground level will be like? It looks like a typical tower-in-the-park approach but I wonder how it will meet the street. Also, isn't the street it is facting onto supposed to be the neighbourhood's commercial high street? The Tandem and OMA developments near the Gilmore station got the ball rolling on this endeavour.

[SpongeG]

in the plan I saw that street, if its the one I am thinking of, will become a dead end and traffic will be rerouted to holdom to access lougheed and the commercial in that area is set to become residential and a smaller local street with less traffic - the dawson extension is to be used to access perspectives isn't it?

[bahbahblacksheep]

tGill: Thank you for the photo update. Seems to be going up at one floor/week!

SFUVancouver: The tower seems to face kinda between Lougheed and Douglas. The developer said the tower will have a Douglas Road address (sounds better than Lougheed Highway, I guess). The developer told me there will be no commercial directly in front of the tower or facing Dawson…she said there MIGHT be commercial directly west of Perspectives on Lougheed between Perspectives and Memento, where there is currently a ghetto car dealership. =P

SpongeG: Yes, Douglas will supposedly become a cul-de-sac where Perspectives residents/visitors can enter the parking lot. And the Dawson extension is for the townhome residents.

[SpongeG]

that car dealership is awful - if it moves and stays commercial i wonder what work there i'd hate to see a trip mall type thing but it might be better than the car dealership

[bahbahblacksheep]

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[bahbahblacksheep]

Perspectives as of November 15, 2009:
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs104.snc3/15136_511574554625_129400433_30579255_858516_n.jpg

[bahbahblacksheep]

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs075.snc3/14260_511785811265_129400433_30588220_73316_n.jpg





…FYI, Affinity by Bosa has seemed to have replaced Luxe: http://affinitybybosa.com/

[LeftCoaster]

This thing is really growin fast, thanks for all the updates.

[bahbahblacksheep]

2010/01/17
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs131.snc3/17864_512200385455_129400433_30607959_6727531_n.jpg

[gillty]

taken today,
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4371062615_1c0b5c533f_b.jpg

[bahbahblacksheep]

According to http://www.ledmac.com/new/perspectives.php, grand reopening of sales centre on Saturday, March 20, 2010!

[gillty]

taken today, hosted @ flickr.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4465240709_cc8123ebee_b.jpg

[Locked In]

My photos (http://picasaweb.google.com/dev.pics.1/VancouverWinterSpring2010#5462058921975218450), April 19:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S80hpnqWARI/AAAAAAAADKc/6ZZrrIGspZs/s800/IMG_2024.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S80hqBZA1aI/AAAAAAAADKg/MUNRRnmMlsg/s800/IMG_2025.JPG

[Locked In]

My photo (http://picasaweb.google.com/dev.pics.1/VancouverSummer2010#5470268143576159426), May 12:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S-pL5NP-FMI/AAAAAAAADTg/jxR-QoLI05s/s800/IMG_3861.jpg
Full Size (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S-pL5NP-FMI/AAAAAAAADTg/jxR-QoLI05s/IMG_3861.jpg)

[bahbahblacksheep]

2010/06/15
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs044.snc4/34583_513962574015_129400433_30686649_6114381_n.jpg

[SFUVancouver]

Thanks for the photo.

I'm not especially excited about this one. The project brand shows a rounded facade to the building and for months I simply assumed the other side of the tower was "the good side".

[spiritofevil99]

Was thinking about this building. What are your thoughts on it? Do you like the plans?

[mr.sandbag]

I almost bought into it but realized I wanted to live in Mount Pleasant instead. Otherwise We liked the layouts and location. The area is in the middle of a long transition and if you like the area and can wait it out, it will be a great buy. There is a lot coming to the area so the value will go up. Once Douglas gets closed off it will be less noisy and busy as well something to think about. Check Burnaby's town center plans to see what they want to do. I don't have the link but go to their website.

hope this helps

[spiritofevil99]

Any idea why it's taking forever to sell?

[Homeowner]

Any idea why it's taking forever to sell?

Location. There are lots of condos around the Brentwood Mall area, and this one is not in an ideal location.

[spiritofevil99]

It has the best layouts for the price and lowest maintenance fee (.24 cents a sq foot) which makes it tempting.. I can rationalize the location I guess but it is a bit on its own out there.

Did you like the layouts?

[Homeowner]

It has the best layouts for the price and lowest maintenance fee (.24 cents a sq foot) which makes it tempting.. I can rationalize the location I guess but it is a bit on its own out there.

Did you like the layouts?

24 cents /sq ft is cheap strata. That is a bonus. Most of the buildings are around 35 cents/sq ft. The layouts in Perspective are good but in the end it's all about location. It is not too walk friendly once you go outside the building.

MOSAIC & FRESCO of Renaissance towers across from Save On Foods are the best buildings in the Brentwood area IMO. They have low strata $27 cents/sq ft and no wasted space on their layouts. Also the 2 bedrooms are VERY generous size - minimum 900 square feet!

[spiritofevil99]

Were the unit prices considered pricey for the area?

[BodomReaper]

I figured someone should do a final update for this project... Overall, I quite like how it turned out. The tower gives the impression of "unfolding" in several chunks, which all work nicely together. And for a dreaded "tower in the park", the ground-level treatments of both the tower and the townhomes are definitely above-average. The only issue is, as SFU Vancouver noted a few posts up, the location is pretty awful. It's located almost exactly halfway between Holdom and Brentwood stations, meaning you either walk for 10 minutes along a Lougheed Highway with no sidewalks, or through an industrial area which also isn't exactly welcoming to pedestrians.


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[officedweller]

Nice pics.

Even though this tower is "typical" it's still far, far cleaner in appearance than, say, The Mark.

Ultimately, I think Dawson will continue east of Willingdon and provide a more pleasant walking route than Lougheed Highway.

[spiritofevil99]

It can be a good option if they develop the area west of the building. Any idea if there are plans to redevelop this land south of Lougheed across the street from Brentwood Gates?

Seems like an industrial storage area right now.

[David]

It can be a good option if they develop the area west of the building. Any idea if there are plans to redevelop this land south of Lougheed across the street from Brentwood Gates?

Seems like an industrial storage area right now.

I don't know anything about any specific plans, but the land is zoned for low to medium density multiple family residential, as per the Brentwood area plan here: http://www.burnaby.ca/Assets/city+services/policies+projects+and+initiatives/community+development/LUM+-+Brentwood.pdf

[spiritofevil99]

I don't know anything about any specific plans, but the land is zoned for low to medium density multiple family residential, as per the Brentwood area plan here: http://www.burnaby.ca/Assets/city+services/policies+projects+and+initiatives/community+development/LUM+-+Brentwood.pdf

Who owns the land?

[VanK]

Who owns the land?

privately owned but rumoured to be under contract at the moment with a major developer.

[spiritofevil99]

I wonder who the developer is?