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The Yates on Yates
Uses: condo, commercial
Address: 848-852 Yates Street
Municipality: Victoria
Region: Downtown Victoria
Storeys: 20
Condo units: (1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 2BR + den)
Sales status: sold out / resales only
The Yates on Yates is one of two 20-storey residential towers on a property spanning the 700-blocks of Yates a... (view full profile)
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[Downtown] The Yates on Yates | Condos; commercial | 20-storeys | Built - completed in 2020


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#581 RustyNail

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Posted 17 February 2020 - 06:33 PM

I was having trouble figuring out if it was at 16, 17 or 18 floors. As I was coming back from Uptown yesterday along Blanshard I noticed that YoY was just starting to make an appearance on the skyline. :)


I walk by fairly often and count the floors. YoY is at the 18th floor and VatY is on the 11th. See labelled pic :-). Yeah, the Chard newsletter is a bit behind, hehe.

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#582 Nparker

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Posted 17 February 2020 - 06:54 PM

 

the Chard newsletter is a bit behind

It seems rather odd that the developer wouldn't be able to produce an accurate floor count in its newsletter. How hard would it be to contact someone on site before hitting the 'send' button?  :confused:



#583 RustyNail

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Posted 17 February 2020 - 07:01 PM

It seems rather odd that the developer wouldn't be able to produce an accurate floor count in its newsletter. How hard would it be to contact someone on site before hitting the 'send' button? :confused:


No kidding. The last newsletter was the same way: behind by about 1 to 2 floors for each building.

#584 RustyNail

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Posted 20 February 2020 - 06:37 PM

Some night photos from 19 Feb 2020.

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#585 Nparker

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Posted 20 February 2020 - 06:54 PM

I wish that some of the finished buildings looked as interesting as they do during construction.


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#586 Mixed365

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Posted 21 February 2020 - 01:18 PM

It seems rather odd that the developer wouldn't be able to produce an accurate floor count in its newsletter. How hard would it be to contact someone on site before hitting the 'send' button?  :confused:

 

If they are averaging a floor a week, they probably wrote it before it changed. 


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#587 Nparker

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Posted 21 February 2020 - 01:28 PM

So if the developer knows this is the rate of completion, do a last-minute check before sending out the newsletter. 



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Posted 26 February 2020 - 08:51 PM

Picture from today, I’m counting 17 floors, laying concrete for the 18th floor? For some reason this is a tricky one to count floors on.

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#589 zoomer

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Posted 26 February 2020 - 08:55 PM

Here we go

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#590 RustyNail

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 01:45 AM

Picture from today, I’m counting 17 floors, laying concrete for the 18th floor? For some reason this is a tricky one to count floors on.

I think you're off by one. Ground floor is considered floor 1, which is two stories, so the next floor is floor 3. A shortcut for counting floors is to remember that from floor 10 to floor 11, the floor plate shrinks in size - that's where I normally start counting from.

Looks like their finishing up floor 19.

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#591 Mike K.

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 07:23 AM

Are we sure the second floor is actually the third floor? Usually podiums, no matter how tall, are still counted as a single storey even if they have a mezzanine level.


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#592 aastra

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 08:30 AM

If the finished building is going to be 20 stories then the entire podium (dark and light sections together, below the 11-story tower portion) is going to be 9 stories, right? The townhouses in the lane must be (must occupy) two stories? The commercial space on the ground along Yates is as tall as the townhouse second level.

 

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#593 RustyNail

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:14 PM

If the finished building is going to be 20 stories then the entire podium (dark and light sections together, below the 11-story tower portion) is going to be 9 stories, right? The townhouses in the lane must be (must occupy) two stories? The commercial space on the ground along Yates is as tall as the townhouse second level.

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The commercial space looks to be as tall is the ROOF of the townhouse 2nd level, or level with the 3rd floor outdoor area between the two buildings. It just looks confusing in the picture you attached because they have canopies installed halfway up the height of the commercial area. Or maybe they will be dividing the commercial space into 2 levels at a later date and the5 just haven't done so yet? See attached picture.

I just remember that the transition between floors 10 and 11 has a big change in floor plate size. I normally start counting from there.

Rooftop garden is technically the "21st" floor

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#594 aastra

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:30 PM

I'm just saying we know the building will be 20 stories (no need to take Mike K.'s word for it; Chard says the same on their website) and we also know from the model that the tower portion will be 11 stories. On the building under construction we can't easily count the podium levels because of the visual confusion, but we can easily identify where the tower portion begins. So by counting down from the 20th floor we know the first level atop the podium is the 10th floor.



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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:37 PM

Your count is right. The first residential level above the Yates commercial units would be on the 3rd floor.



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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:39 PM

 

The commercial space looks to be as tall is the ROOF of the townhouse 2nd level...

 

That's right. That's what I'm saying. The townhouses in the lane are as tall as the Yates commercial units.



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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:54 PM

Back in 2007 we were full of ideas re: innovative new schemes for designating floors and levels, in order to avoid this sort of confusion.

 

 

If we gave floors letters instead of numbers we could placate superstitious idiots.

You could say I live on the Gth floor and my friend lives on the Fst and the restaurant's on the Mteenth.

 

 

We could switch to a new base... say 16

 

 

I like the letters idea, but the letters should be randomly assigned to each floor so there's no implied hierarchy (which could easily be translated back into numerical equivalents).

In other words, the lowest floor should be the Rrd floor, followed by the Jth floor, and so on...

Every building would be different, of course.

 

 

^That's very non-elitist, too. Eliminates the stigma of lower floors.

Why not live on ∏ or ∑ or Ω?

 

 

...perhaps the names of the floors should be impossible to pronounce?

I'm also keen on the idea of a single story that contains 14 mezzanine levels. I think that just might be the solution to the highrise controversy that we've all been overlooking.

 

 

Corporate branding is the answer.

"I live on the floor brought to you by Wells Fargo Insurance Services"

 

 

We should use the condo name generator to name each floor. It may overload the system, but we can always upgrade the system.

...I live on the Juliet floor of the Corazon. Or I live on the living Shang-gri-la floor of View Towers.



#598 RustyNail

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 04:20 PM

That's right. That's what I'm saying. The townhouses in the lane are as tall as the Yates commercial units.

Yeah I think I was just misunderstanding you, my bad. When someone says level x, or x level, I've been interpreting that as the literal floor of level x, which may not be the correct way to think of it. It's why I was confused by: "The commercial space on the ground along Yates is as tall as the townhouse second level."

Drawing in the floors on the pics makes it more clear.

I recognize the building is 20 stories and that the roof generally isn't counted as a story. Was just suggesting it could be since it's another level of the building that will have people on it and will thus be semi-"occupied".

I bought into Vivid so looking forward to both of these buildings finishing and getting pretty excited. How do you think the YoY looks so far?

Cheers.

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Posted 02 March 2020 - 06:41 PM

Evening pics - 02 Mar 2020

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Posted 02 March 2020 - 06:44 PM

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