[Burnaby] Concord Brentwood | U/C and Proposed - Page 17

osirisboy · #**321** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by e-clam9

Hi, could someone tell me the price range for the 1 and 2 bed room at the Phase 2 pre-sales ? I just want to compare it to other new pre-sales in this area. Bordeaux has incentive of waiving GST when I visited them last week. That is a lot of saving ! Many news said realty is slowing down a lot, especially for the detached home. I wonder if I should wait to get a condo in this area. It is about $1000 per sq.ft now, about 35% more than 2016 !!!!

Pick up the phone and call them

officedweller · #**322** Posted **Oct 16, 2018, 11:54 PM**

By City of Rain Oct 14th:

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Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1385932, member: 70034

IMG_1105 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_1119 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

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IMG_1123 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

fredinno · #**323** Posted **Nov 2, 2018, 12:20 AM**

I'm part of the pre-sale group who bought this tower. Any advice for me for the future? People seem to be pretty negative about this development; maybe I'm reading things wrong, but still.

rofina · #**324** Posted **Nov 2, 2018, 3:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by fredinno

I'm part of the pre-sale group who bought this tower. Any advice for me for the future? People seem to be pretty negative about this development; maybe I'm reading things wrong, but still.

I don't think people are negative about this development at all.

I think all that's been said is that its easily 2 years behind on delivery already.

And really, that's probably a good thing for market cycles anyway. By the time this thing completes it will be a whole different world.

fredinno · #**325** Posted **Nov 2, 2018, 5:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

I don't think people are negative about this development at all.

I think all that's been said is that its easily 2 years behind on delivery already.

And really, that's probably a good thing for market cycles anyway. By the time this thing completes it will be a whole different world.

Ok.

Roller Coaster · #**326** Posted **Dec 20, 2018, 5:28 AM**

Anyone has any update on this project? How many floors raised?

Lexus · #**327** Posted **Dec 20, 2018, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Roller Coaster

Anyone has any update on this project? How many floors raised?

0. They still work 1 or 2 levels bellow ground level.

VarBreStr18 · #**328** Posted **Dec 20, 2018, 7:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lexus

0. They still work 1 or 2 levels bellow ground level.

How come so slooow? Lumina went on sale much later, already 3 floors above ground, and they are building 3 towers at the same time!!

rofina · #**329** Posted **Dec 20, 2018, 9:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

How come so slooow? Lumina went on sale much later, already 3 floors above ground, and they are building 3 towers at the same time!!

Way deeper pit for these towers. Lumina went down maybe 6ft.

officedweller · #**330** Posted **Dec 20, 2018, 11:01 PM**

The water table is probably higher down by Lumina (like OMA, etc.).

Lexus · #**331** Posted **Dec 20, 2018, 11:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

How come so slooow? Lumina went on sale much later, already 3 floors above ground, and they are building 3 towers at the same time!!

They building 2 towers at Lumina as of now. Also lumina west tower already 10 floors above (podium plus 8 flors above it]
That 3rd crane thats there is for a different tower

officedweller · #**332** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 4:38 AM**

Lumina has a disjointed site - one Lumina parcel (Alpha) is north of Milano and not connected to the rest of Lumina.
http://luminabrentwood.com/

VarBreStr18 · #**333** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 7:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

Way deeper pit for these towers. Lumina went down maybe 6ft.

If I remember correctly, the rendering of both tower 1 and 2 are elevated on "legs".This means they hardly need to dig??? Even their parkade is to the side of the tower and not underground. Someone please enlighten me. There are lots of knowledgeable people in this forum.

Spr0ckets · #**334** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 7:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

If I remember correctly, the rendering of both tower 1 and 2 are elevated on "legs".This means they hardly need to dig??? Even their parkade is to the side of the tower and not underground. Someone please enlighten me. There are lots of knowledgeable people in this forum.

I can almost guarantee you that the parking of these towers will be underground, based on where they're located.

Those elevated "legs" design have nothing to do with the dig-ability of the site or their capability to go far underground for parking. They're more of a stylistic choice than a functional one.

If the parking were above ground (and for towers of this size, you're talking about 4-5 levels of underground parking,.....at least), you would definitely be able to tell from the renderings.
(from super-chunky podiums like the sort you see in Richmond where above-ground parkades are a must and not a choice).

This project is far enough from the swampland and also based on the geological map and are soil-type I'm pretty certain that a high water table isn't an issue for underground parking where they are.

officedweller · #**335** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 10:02 AM**

I think the parking is built into the hillside. So there would still be some excavation.

http://phase1.concordbrentwood.com/

mgbcca · #**336** Posted **Dec 22, 2018, 9:49 PM**

Looks like they are doing a large concrete pour all day today, should be able to see something soon. (need a zoom lense)

Excel Optimization · #**337** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 12:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by mgbcca

Looks like they are doing a large concrete pour all day today, should be able to see something soon. (need a zoom lense)

thanks for the update. wow thats quite the fleet out there

osirisboy · #**338** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 12:41 AM**

That building in the centre foreground looks so underbuilt especially along beta

Spr0ckets · #**339** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 5:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

I think the parking is built into the hillside. So there would still be some excavation.

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http://phase1.concordbrentwood.com/

It's worth noting that the phase two rezoning application for this project (which includes a 45, 50 and 18 storey towers), indicates that they shall (collectively?) have 1000 UNDERGROUND parking spaces.

Now phase 2 is located a bit farther south than phase 1 and is therefore theoretically closer to the swampland.
But given that they can excavate for 1000 underground parking spaces (4-7 levels depending on how it's spread out), in that location, it shows that the water table there is low enough which would also follow for phase 1 which is even more northward located and with a theoretically lower water table level.

from...
http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/12/10/phase-2-of-concord-brentwood-to-include-825-units/

Lastly, looking at that renders (not always the most reliable ways of assessing a project, but still....), it doesn't seem like that above ground podium will be used in any part for parking with all the glazing they seem to show.

The whole point of the 'tower-elevated-on-legs' design is to have all the residential and dwelling units above the tree line and more importantly, above the adjacent sky train line. So it's more to do with that than the notion that they can't excavate far below ground.

VarBreStr18 · #**340** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

I think the parking is built into the hillside. So there would still be some excavation.

http://phase1.concordbrentwood.com/

According to this drawing, the parkade is above ground but pushed against the hillside. See all those plants at the ground level of the parkade. And then the supporting legs are on top of the parkade. So there is not that much excavation required.