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Originally Posted by someone123
It is a luxury building in a scenic location with relatively few units per floor. Richmond Yards is a more typical rental development and the other large tower developments on the Dartmouth side will probably be more affordable housing.
I don't think the 40 storey towers on the Dartmouth side are a bad idea. They're in a central location that has been underdeveloped for a long time.
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There is no need to build 30 to 40 storey apartment clusters in Dartmouth. That makes it not a great idea. It's a height fetish to see it as an achievement. 75% of residences are completely reliant on building systems in order to live in a 40 storey tower. A resident in One77 is more likely to have alternative arrangements if any of those essential systems were to fail compared to a rental shoebox. Building codes like elevators are designed around capacities than incorporating contingencies should any or all fall out of use. Examples of 20 to 30 minute waits at peak periods proves the code is insufficient
The whole desire of living on a high floor is to have a million dollar panoramic view. You get a lot less of that in a cluster of high rises and the typical deep and narrow units. Another reason to resign to living in a high rise is to be in the heart of the action. That's Halifax. That's not Dartmouth across the bridge
I would say that the doubling of average apartment building storey counts in the last 25 years is already far more problematic than renowned. There's already an abundance of horror stories from buildings that should still have a new apartment smell to them. It can happen in mid rises or 12 storey high rise as well. It's just a lot less dire when you can get out on your own feet
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