8X on the Park | 98m | 36Fl | Completed - Page 14

Vin · #**261** Posted **May 17, 2016, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by phesto

I think some of you guys are out of touch with the current condo market downtown.

The average resale price of a newer downtown condo this year is $915 per SF (units 10 years old or newer / avg. 5.6 yrs old). There are now resales regularly occurring at over $1,000 per SF in Yaletown for 10-20 year old buildings in good locations.

I'm not saying that I would buy at $1,100 per SF, and I think the market has gone crazy, but I don't think that they've 'mis-priced' it.

With that price, one can buy something nicer like at the Vancouver House or The Trump, seriously.

mcminsen · #**262** Posted **May 17, 2016, 8:40 PM**

Overall, I like the appearance of the New Jubilee House but the one thing I have a problem with is the choice of (sea foam?) green for the spandrel around the corner at ground level.

May 16 '16, my pics

retro_orange · #**263** Posted **May 17, 2016, 9:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Overall, I like the appearance of the New Jubilee House but the one thing I have a problem with is the choice of (sea foam?) green for the spandrel around the corner at ground level.

May 16 '16, my pics

It must have been super cheap or the seafoam spandrel mafia got to them!

Klazu · #**264** Posted **May 17, 2016, 10:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Overall, I like the appearance of the New Jubilee House but the one thing I have a problem with is the choice of (sea foam?) green for the spandrel around the corner at ground level.

The same caught also my eye. That's a missed detail IMO.

osirisboy · #**265** Posted **May 17, 2016, 11:07 PM**

^^^thats the first thing I noticed. Seriously it's like they noticed at the last minute that this building didn't have seafoam, God forbid and quickly slapped some on. Lmao. It doesn't match anything!!!

Klazu · #**266** Posted **May 17, 2016, 11:51 PM**

Well... In Vancouver seafoam spandrel matches everything (around). So there's that.

officedweller · #**267** Posted **May 18, 2016, 12:23 AM**

The stranger thing is that it harks back to the 1990s "true" seafoam.

officedweller · #**268** Posted **May 21, 2016, 6:08 AM**

8X model from B+B Scale Models Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/BB-Scale-Mo...=page_internal

Jebby · #**269** Posted **May 22, 2016, 4:12 AM**

It looks really bulky.

I know this is said of basically every tower, but it would look a lot better with 10 more stories.

bb1510 · #**270** Posted **May 23, 2016, 7:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

With that price, one can buy something nicer like at the Vancouver House or The Trump, seriously.

The days of buying at Vancouver House or Trump at $1000/sq ft are long gone

LeftCoaster · #**271** Posted **May 25, 2016, 5:32 PM**

vancouver house sold for an average of $1,500 PSF...

WarrenC12 · #**272** Posted **May 25, 2016, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

vancouver house sold for an average of $1,500 PSF...

Did that project sell out? Finishing aside, there will be some awesome views and some terrible ones (of the side of a bridge). Can't wait to see it rise though, it will be the best thing we've seen in a long time IMO.

LeftCoaster · #**273** Posted **May 25, 2016, 5:51 PM**

Yep, sold out ages ago. Incredibly quickly for a building priced at that point too.

Say what you will about Gillespie, he knows how to sell expensive condos!

Vin · #**274** Posted **May 25, 2016, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

vancouver house sold for an average of $1,500 PSF...

For Van House, you included the penthouse and sub-penthouses, didn't you? FYI, for this ugly 8X development, a 450sqft studio is going for 530,000 to 550,000? That would be at least $1200psf, and they are probably the lower floor units, where you stare into the bedroom of a subsidised housing unit, or worse, perhaps just a brick wall.

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Yep, sold out ages ago. Incredibly quickly for a building priced at that point too.

Say what you will about Gillespie, he knows how to sell expensive condos!

I can bet this one will see a price discount somewhere down the road. No one in the right mind will want to buy into it.

LeftCoaster · #**275** Posted **May 30, 2016, 7:51 PM**

Vin most people base their purchasing decisions on more than their subjective view of the tower architecture.

The finishes and furnishings will be incredibly high end, a lot of care and attention has been paid to the suite layout and the location is top notch.

I do not doubt this one will sell well at it's price point.

phesto · #**276** Posted **May 30, 2016, 8:39 PM**

Apparently 60% of the units have sold in the first two weeks...at an average of $1,400 per SF.

mcminsen · #**277** Posted **Jun 2, 2016, 3:43 AM**

They're finally putting in the sidewalk at the New Jubilee House.

June 1 '16, my pics

officedweller · #**278** Posted **Jun 9, 2016, 10:46 PM**

From GBL Twitter - rooftop garden on new Jubilee House:

The Mojito must be the drink of choice:

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

mcminsen · #**279** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 7:49 AM**

Ground level is finally coming together at the New Jubilee House.

June 12 '16, my pics

domusile · #**280** Posted **Jun 14, 2016, 9:16 PM**

Don't know how to post these photos but:

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects/st...21534138404864