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[Mike K.]

I don't think they're actively updating the website. All of their deals are face-to-face, with buyers walking through what's available rather than looking at availability on the website. Some of the offers are also more complicated than pre-sale offerings with contingencies, conditions, etc. It's a bit of a mess to list a unit gone when it has an offer expiring in six weeks and it might end up back on the market.

[Mixed365]

It's confirmed!

 

Rolf's Cook Street Barbershop is on the move as Wellburn's redevelopment nears

https://victoria.cit...elopment-nears/

 

This is great the developers/owners of the commercial at Jukebox are putting a local business in. A real net benefit to the downtown/HG community. 

[Victoria Watcher]

$450,000

 

107-1029 View St.

 

FOR SALE OR LEASE.

 

Unit 107 is a 595 sq ft ground floor commercial unit in the Jukebox condo building. Completed in 2019, this visually stunning building is located in the Harris Green neighborhood. Permitted uses include retail, office, restaurant, day care etc. There is one underground parking stall included in the sale or lease. Unit 108 is also available for sale or lease which could be combined with Unit 107, doubling the square footage. The unit can be lease for $1,900 per month gross including 1 parking stall. (22453044)

 

https://www.realtor....ctoria-downtown

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 June 2020 - 06:45 PM.

[Jackerbie]

^ Jukebox is filling up nicely! As mentioned previously here and in other threads, several local businesses are relocating to this building including the Cook Street Barbershop, Sorensen Books, and Chronicles of Crime bookstore.

[Brantastic]

It's surprising considering how little pedestrian traffic there is on that part of View Street while most other new builds still have mostly empty ground floors.

[Mike K.]

There’s certainly something to be said about a quieter side street for retail operations.

[RustyNail]

There’s certainly something to be said about a quieter side street for retail operations.

? Are you going to expand on that, lol.

[aastra]

 

...several local businesses are relocating to this building including the Cook Street Barbershop, Sorensen Books, and Chronicles of Crime bookstore.

 

A wise SOB on the interwebs once observed how Victoria's scene tends to be more about stuff moving around and re-configuring as versus sheer growth and all-new stuff.

[Mike K.]

? Are you going to expand on that, lol.

Oh sure.

Retail spaces that are destinations in their own rights don’t need to be on the busiest thoroughfares as their clientele will seek them out.

As the internet becomes more of a guide for where to go and what to do, the need to be on a busy street for exposure diminishes.

[Brantastic]

A wise SOB on the interwebs once observed how Victoria's scene tends to be more about stuff moving around and re-configuring as versus sheer growth and all-new stuff.

That does seem to be the case. Even the Mayfair expansion just moved stores in from other parts of the mall or from other locations around the city (Sportchek, Indigo/Chapters, etc.)

[Citified.ca]

A final sales push by Mosaic Properties Inc. is working in the buyer's favour with just-announced incentives for remaining one-bedroom homes of upwards of $57,500. Only 20 suites remain (yesterday there were 21) at the 215-home project.

 

Final sales push: up to $57,500 in buyer incentives for remaining 1BR homes at Jukebox condo

https://victoria.cit...-jukebox-condo/

[Mike K.]

Six of ten eligible discount units have sold, while 15 homes in total remain.

[Victoria Watcher]

floors 2-4 sold out

1 left on the 5th

5 on the 6th

1 on each of the 7th and 8th

9th floor sold out

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 March 2021 - 06:04 AM.

[Nparker]

What's wrong with the 6^th floor?

[Victoria Watcher]

What's wrong with the 6^th floor?

 

if you have to ask you can't join the club.

[RustyNail]

Has anyone posted about their experience living in this building yet? I'm kind of curious.

[Jackerbie]

Bad news for Ox King, they lost a battle with the strata over "nuisance smells." https://www.straight...victoria-strata

[sebberry]

Bad news for Ox King, they lost a battle with the strata over "nuisance smells." https://www.straight...victoria-strata

 

I worked directly next to a Subway for a short while - there's no getting away from the odors.  

 

Interesting to see that the Strata's fines weren't upheld on the grounds they didn't give the offender time to respond.  Where the heck is the oversight of property managers these days?  

[Victoria Watcher]

is smell even something that can easily be quantified?

[Rob Randall]

^Smell is like noise, and a decibel meter is a crude tool that often fails to capture the impact of noise and so a nose is a poor tool to legally evaluate smells. 

 

What I don't understand is why the restaurant doesn't vent all the way up through the building to the roof. The developer's other building, the Mosaic does this and as long as the system is kept clean smells are very minimal. 

 

It looks like the developers didn't plan to have a restaurant there so they cheaped out and omitted a restaurant vent. Then when a restaurant did say they would lease the space they jerry-rigged a vent outside the door right by the residential units.