Circa’s simple comfort factor


Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Kerry Moore
Province

 

CREDIT: Nick Procaylo, The Province

Circa is pleasant and inviting, with generous window space (above) and strong basics in place in the bedrooms (below left) and kitchen (below right). With no upgrades, owners can make independent decisions about how their apartments look.

CREDIT: Nick Procaylo, The Province

Circa is pleasant and inviting, with generous window space (above) and strong basics in place in the bedrooms (below left) and kitchen (below right). With no upgrades, owners can make independent decisions about how their apartments look.

CREDIT: Nick Procaylo, The Province

Circa is pleasant and inviting, with generous window space (above) and strong basics in place in the bedrooms (below left) and kitchen (below right). With no upgrades, owners can make independent decisions about how their apartments look.

Circa has no upgrades: what you see is what you get, so it’s a relatively easy shopping trip.

Circa is the last tower at Collingwood Village with occupation in November, 2006. Three low rises that will share the same block go on sale a year from now.

Collingwood Village is a concept development southeast of the Joyce-Collingwood SkyTrain station, the last station in Vancouver before the SkyTrain crosses Boundary Road east into Burnaby.

The village is a mix of high and low buildings separated by green spaces, tennis and basketball courts and fields. It includes a daycare, park, neighbourhood house with gym and program areas, a community police office, a bank and an elementary school.

Circa is 60 per cent sold and was offered only a month ago. Not mentioned in the selection are 435 sq. ft. studios, which are all sold.

There are two display suites, a one- and a two-bedroom. Explore these generally rather than specifically because there are four floor plans for two-bedroom, and nine for one-bedrooms. As well, fifth-floor suites have terraces and there’s street access for garden suites.

The display suites are simple, pleasing and inviting.

Generous window space covers almost a wall each in the living room and bedroom with a section opening vertically for fresh air.

Kitchens are galley style with an attached bar for seating, and feature standard white appliances (dishwasher, refrigerator, stove and hood). Counters are marbled laminate with ivory ceramic tile floors in this room, bath and entry. Cupboards extend to ceilings for extra storage space and are faced in birch-blond in the one-bedrooms, warm maple colour in the two-bed. Hardware is soft matte chrome.

Bedroom and living room share an ivory plush carpet, there is considerable storage space, a good ensuite bathroom and a stacked washer-dryer in a laundry cupboard. The shelving in cupboards is standard, as are the lighting and mini-venetian blinds.

Neutral colour schemes are throughout, offering no conflict with art or decor. Heating is electric baseboard.

Sharp eyes will note there is no tile backsplash in the kitchen, nor fireplace in the living room. There are no upgrades offered; if an owner wants to have wood floors, for example, such alterations are arranged by the person and take place after occupancy.

Circa will have a full-time building manager, a fitness room, a lounge, storage lockers, bicycle storage and parking. For security, an integrated key-fob system controls the main entrance, elevators and underground parking while each resident’s television doubles as a security monitor.

In the final assessment, Circa will be a building where little luxury touches are left to the buyer to add but it will score high on comfort, community and convenience.

QUICK FACTS

WHAT: Circa is a 22-floor tower with side “wings” of four stories each.

WHERE: Display suites at 1502 – 3588 Crowley Dr., Vancouver. Contact 604-438-8580 or www.circavancouver.com

DEVELOPER: Concert Properties Ltd.

SIZES: Condominiums: One-bedroom, one-bed-and-nook, one-bed-and-den, one-bed-den-and-nook, and two-bedrooms; from 564 sq. ft. to 983 sq. ft.

PRICES: $155,900 to $298,900.

OPEN: 12 to 5, closed Fridays.

© The Vancouver Province 2004

 



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