Have them put their $$ where their mouth's are or better yet have take a good look around the neighbourhood.Is this like the other high end condo that has yet to break ground downtown??All this talk of the downtown being revamped has yet to transpire.Its empty buildings (owned by the city) surrounded by bars,bingo,pawn shops and a few businesses tenuously hanging on.

This is not what I would call high end. What it is, is a standard apartment layout as can be seen in several apartment buildings in that area some 20 years ago. It is just “dressed” up on the outside in the current vernacular of “eyebrow” canopy, a multitude of finishes, including a wood look, a rock look and a stucco look. It may even get some pastel orange and yellow colours to really make it look “in.

Underneath it all, it is still the same-old same-old – parking on grade, berm next to the building to make it look a bit lower, 3 storeys of cookie-cutter units above.

The original design the Creuzots had for this property some 15 or so years ago was far superior. It would have brought a bit of a new target to PG for such a development.

The condo units on the northwest corner of 6th and Vancouver will remain the standard to be beating for someone wishing to build a “high-end” apartment in that part of the city.

That being said, it is great that we are getting a 12 unit condo in the area. It is just that it is not exactly high end.

What would have been high end? Many options there. How about a building with two storey lofts on the top floor? Or how about a building designed with all units facing east/south/west instead of a symmetrical building where people face the north only without ever having sunlight enter their unit at any time of the year except very early in the morning and late at night during 2 or 3 months of the year.

This is more like what I would call a “high-end”.

http://www.myhometours.ca/tours/425

Maby the units inside will look "high end" at first. It depends on the owners if they stay that way.