White Rock builder anticipating custom orders
Unique combinations of two apartments -- side by side or above and below -- the promise to Avra purchasers
By Barbara Gunn, Vancouver Sun October 9, 2010
Those involved in the marketing of the 17-storey Avra highrise in White Rock are now focused on the launch of 108 yet-to-be-built residences. But a couple of years from now, when the tower stands high above the slope leading to the water's edge, odds are it will have fewer than 108 addresses.
That's because a number of those who've expressed an early interest in getting in on the Avra action are pondering a move not often played out in the new-condo scene.
They're considering buying a couple of units -- side by side, or one on top of the other -- and having them merged into one. That means that as Avra is constructed, just a block east of Johnston Street, the community's north-south main drag, the design of some residences might be reconfigured. A home of about 700 square feet with one bedroom and a den, for instance, might be joined with its neighbour -- up or adjacent -- and have one less kitchen and one less laundry room, but considerably more space, both within and without.
"I expect that we'll probably have 10 or 15 of those type of homes, " says marketer Cam Good. "It is unusual, yes ... More in this building than any other building I've marketed, we've had people [expressing interest in] putting two homes together and creating a 1,500-, 1,600-square-foot custom home in the sky.
"They're excited about the open-mindedness the developer has about putting homes together ... The developer's able to do it, really at no [extra] cost to the buyer because they save on the cost of an extra kitchen, which compensates for the cost of redesigning, moving walls, that type of thing."
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