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South west, south of Glenmore Trail London at Heritage Station
Tower one: 8710 Horton Road, SW, Haysboro
London at Heritage Station
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Four concrete high-rise towers will eventually rise in this 1,200-suite mixed-use condominium development, with my main photo showing the second tower rising to 21 floors with 369 suites in the fall of 2007 and occupied in 2010. Westcorp Properties of Edmonton boasts that it is creating an urban village with all the services and amenities a resident will need. The towers will have a professional-sized gym, media rooms, hobby rooms, party room with kitchen, lounge, library, a beer/wine-making room, roof-top patios, and even a greenhouse, while attached and up the hill on MacLeod Trail will be a grocery store, restaurant, and retail services tied into the London development. A pedestrian overpass is to link the development across Horton Road with the C-Train station, likely early in 2011.
Rather than post-and-platform construction divided by gyproc double walls, the builder chose to make the walls between suites out of concrete so they form the vertical structure of each tower---a nice sound-proofing feature. The developer boasts of numerous innovations and environmental features in these buildings, some of which I take with a grain of salt. Still, concrete walls are good, and so are each tower's 10' 10" ceilings on floors two through four, 9' ceilings on floors 5 through 10, and 9.5' for upper storeys.
Every suite is separately metered for utilities like water/sewer, natural gas and in-suite electricity, and each suite has its own direct-vented wall-hung boiler to produce tap hot water and for space heating via ceiling-mounted coils. That means condo fees will be low, and your costs are reduced while you're away on vacation, but remember that when you use utilities you'll receive and pay those bills directly. On-demand tankless hot-water supply is common in Europe (in London?), but rare in Canada until recently. It may take new owners a bit of getting used to, but it's also impossible to run out of hot water after it arrives at your tap.
There's a real range of suite layouts in towers one and two, starting with a small number of a "junior one bedroom" suite that's really a studio with a partition wall. If you want to re-sell that on the MLS later our rules say a bedroom isn't a bedroom unless it has a door that can be closed, an exterior window, and a closet. This floor plan has a closet, all right, but the bedroom is behind and open to the kitchen/living area from the only window and the balcony. But hey, studios sell like hotcakes in London (England!), Tokyo, and in Mission here in Calgary, so in a few years they'll re-sell like hotcakes in London Condos at Heritage Station, too! The towers offer far more of the larger one-bedroom homes and truly roomy two-bedroom corner-situated suites with large corner balconies. The upper floors of these buildings offer some terrific views, especially from north-facing suites in tower one. Parking is all indoors and heated, of course, held by the condo corporation as assigned common property.
Towers one and two are pretty much the same design, long and narrow running east to west, with a roof-top deck each at the sixteenth floor, and the balance of each building rising to 21 floors. The third and fourth towers will each have a smaller footprint and stand between the two broader towers. These later buildings will be atop a two-storey podium of which the entire ground floor will be the amenity centre for the completed four-building development, projected to be done in 2013 (put off due to the slower market?).
All exterior windows and doors at all London towers are common property for maintenance and for eventual replacement. As detailed above, every suite's utilities are individually metered and those mechanicals are the property of each suite owner. Unit factors are allocated to suites, '...based on anticipated market value...", so while they generally are in proportion to suite floor areas, there are anomolies. I have on file original marketing materials for towers one and two, most of the floor plans, the overall bare-land Condo Plan, and the Condo Plans for the completed two towers.
Four concrete high-rise towers will eventually rise in this 1,200-suite mixed-use condominium development, with my main photo showing the second tower rising to 21 floors with 369 suites in the fall of 2007 and occupied in 2010. Westcorp Properties of Edmonton boasts that it is creating an urban village with all the services and amenities a resident will need. The towers will have a professional-sized gym, media rooms, hobby rooms, party room with kitchen, lounge, library, a beer/wine-making room, roof-top patios, and even a greenhouse, while attached and up the hill on MacLeod Trail will be a grocery store, restaurant, and retail services tied into the London development. A pedestrian overpass is to link the development across Horton Road with the C-Train station, likely early in 2011.
Rather than post-and-platform construction divided by gyproc double walls, the builder chose to make the walls between suites out of concrete so they form the vertical structure of each tower---a nice sound-proofing feature. The developer boasts of numerous innovations and environmental features in these buildings, some of which I take with a grain of salt. Still, concrete walls are good, and so are each tower's 10' 10" ceilings on floors two through four, 9' ceilings on floors 5 through 10, and 9.5' for upper storeys.
Every suite is separately metered for utilities like water/sewer, natural gas and in-suite electricity, and each suite has its own direct-vented wall-hung boiler to produce tap hot water and for space heating via ceiling-mounted coils. That means condo fees will be low, and your costs are reduced while you're away on vacation, but remember that when you use utilities you'll receive and pay those bills directly. On-demand tankless hot-water supply is common in Europe (in London?), but rare in Canada until recently. It may take new owners a bit of getting used to, but it's also impossible to run out of hot water after it arrives at your tap.
There's a real range of suite layouts in towers one and two, starting with a small number of a "junior one bedroom" suite that's really a studio with a partition wall. If you want to re-sell that on the MLS later our rules say a bedroom isn't a bedroom unless it has a door that can be closed, an exterior window, and a closet. This floor plan has a closet, all right, but the bedroom is behind and open to the kitchen/living area from the only window and the balcony. But hey, studios sell like hotcakes in London (England!), Tokyo, and in Mission here in Calgary, so in a few years they'll re-sell like hotcakes in London Condos at Heritage Station, too! The towers offer far more of the larger one-bedroom homes and truly roomy two-bedroom corner-situated suites with large corner balconies. The upper floors of these buildings offer some terrific views, especially from north-facing suites in tower one. Parking is all indoors and heated, of course, held by the condo corporation as assigned common property.
Towers one and two are pretty much the same design, long and narrow running east to west, with a roof-top deck each at the sixteenth floor, and the balance of each building rising to 21 floors. The third and fourth towers will each have a smaller footprint and stand between the two broader towers. These later buildings will be atop a two-storey podium of which the entire ground floor will be the amenity centre for the completed four-building development, projected to be done in 2013 (put off due to the slower market?).
All exterior windows and doors at all London towers are common property for maintenance and for eventual replacement. As detailed above, every suite's utilities are individually metered and those mechanicals are the property of each suite owner. Unit factors are allocated to suites, '...based on anticipated market value...", so while they generally are in proportion to suite floor areas, there are anomolies. I have on file original marketing materials for towers one and two, most of the floor plans, the overall bare-land Condo Plan, and the Condo Plans for the completed two towers.
To buy or sell in this condo development, write or call Gerald at 403-703-0675. Rental options are best pursued via rental web sites such as www.RentFaster.ca
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