Bridgeland Mews

Three frame-with-overlay buildings atop a concrete in-ground garage were completed here in 1999, constituting a single condo corporation with 33 large two-bedroom suites and assigned parking enough that most suites are assigned two of them, plus a huge basement locker. There are attractive gardens around the site perimiter and in a courtyard between the three buildings on their quiet locations fronting onto two dead-end streets.

Each three-storey building has 11 suites starting with a main-floor suite in both Six A-Street buildings that spans 1,440 or more square feet with windows in three directions and each with two patios. Other suites are all close to 900 square feet and half of these have a bay window, making for a large and bright living room. Finishings include in-floor heating, white kitchens, in-suite laundry, en-suite master-bedroom bathrooms, plus a second full bath and a gas fireplace for most suites. There are no elevators.

The buildings are vinyl clad with sloped perimiter roofs and peaked turrets over the bay-window projections, then flat roofs behind those features. Every suite has a generous patio or a balcony, and a few offer a view to downtown. The Condo Plan allocates unit factors for suites in proportion to their floor areas, and I keep a copy on file.