Location and luxury finishes
The mall at Oakridge Centre has 574,000 square feet of retail space and features outlets such as Crate & Barrel, Apple, Max Mara, Hugo Boss, Harry Rosen, Stuart Weitzman, DKNY, LEGO, Michael Kors and Tiffany & Co.
Services include the Vancouver Public Library, a children’s learning centre and a number of banking options.
The two- and three-bedroom homes at The Parker range in size from 1,008 to 1,334 square feet and are on sale now. Colbeck said there’s been no shortage of interest from buyers, both in terms of pre-registrations and at the display suite at 5844 Cambie St.
“Most of the interest has come from people in the Metro Vancouver area and Vancouver specifically,” Colbeck said. “We’ve had a great response from buyers; nearly 2,000 registrations for 47 homes, so there’s obviously a lot of demand in the Cambie corridor. The buyers are mainly second-time, move-up buyers as well as downsizers and the vast majority are going to be end users — the people who actually want to move in.”
When they do, they’ll be treated to engineered hardwood flooring, air conditioning in all homes, frontload washer and dryers and roller blinds. Kitchens include Gaggenau appliance packages, wood veneer cabinetry with brushed nickel hardware and under-cabinet LED lighting. There are square-edged quartz countertops with matching full-height backsplashes, kitchen organizer systems, pullout recycling centres and stainless-steel sinks with chrome faucets.
Bathrooms have frameless mirrored medicine cabinets with recessed LED lighting, quartz vanity countertops, under-mounted rectangular basins with chrome faucets and full-height, large-format porcelain tiles on the walls. There are also recessed wall niches with marble mosaic accent tiles, frameless glass shower enclosures, in-floor heating systems and soaker tubs.
“More than just the location and the luxury finishes, we’ve carefully considered the suite sizes at The Parker to make them larger than you would typically find in Vancouver,” Colbeck said. “With condos in the city trending smaller in terms of square footage, we’ve made sure we’re offering homes here with a little more living space.”
Although The Parker will include some one-bedroom homes, at the time of writing the developers had only released size and pricing information for the two- and three-bedroom suites. These start in the upper $1,000,000s for two bedrooms and a den and in the mid $1,600,000s for three bedrooms and a den. The sixstorey concrete building, designed by ZGF Cotter, will include secure underground parking and an amenity room with a kitchenette and a lounge area. The developers are targeting LEED Gold certification upon completion.
“Customer service is a big part of our world here and we have very strict guidelines that we implement both in the construction of our homes and in how we work with our buyers,” Colbeck added. “We have our own internal auditing process where we review every home we build.”
The Parker is set for completion in September 2019.