Highpointe offers urban design, stunning views in quiet setting
ROBIN BRUNET
The Province
The images of Highpointe depict a beautiful, horseshoe-shaped condo complex with staggered terraces and plenty of signature architectural details, overlooking the Fraser River, an adjacent park, local mountains and Mt. Baker.
But one of Highpointe’s main selling points, apart from aesthetics, is that under the urban design and low maintenance exterior features, is a solid structure of steel and concrete.
Wayne Lyle, director of marketing for Highpointe (which is being developed by Concordia Properties), explains, “Steel and concrete is a rare and innovative choice for a low-rise condo and provides many benefits, including terrific mold and fire resistance and lower insurance costs compared to standard wood construction. The structure is rock solid – no warping or shrinking over time – and there is much better sound and thermal insulation performance, which also translates into less than normal cost of ownership.”
Location is another of Highpointe’s big advantages: the 153-unit complex is situated on a quiet tree-lined street adjacent to seven acres of parkland – and yet is just one block away from downtown Maple Ridge. “Home owners really have the best of both worlds,” says Lyle.
He adds that Maple Ridge centre offers shopping, dining, fitness clubs and even art galleries and a theatre (plus the new B-Line express service to the Coquitlam Skytrain). Beyond the city centre, the parks, dikes, lakes, streams and Golden Ears Provincial Park mean easy accessibility to great hiking, biking, kayaking, camping and horseback riding.
The homes themselves are a modern collection of no less than 39 floor plans (studios to three bedrooms) featuring nine- to 18-foot ceilings, oversize windows, stylish built-in Euro-brand appliances, gas cooktops, Silestone countertops, Napoleon fireplaces, and Lumon solariums – the latter providing a bonus room. The solarium fully retracts in summer for a breezy open deck, and then encloses in cooler weather to add an extra room.
Better still, prices for the homes begin in the high $200,000s for a studio, low $300,000’s for a 1 bedroom and mid $400,000s for a 2 bedroom.
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