BUILT Vista Senior Living Uses: rental, commercial Address: 622 Admirals Road Municipality: Esquimalt Region: Urban core Storeys: 11 |
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[Esquimalt] Vista Senior Living (Legion tower) | Seniors rentals, condos and memory care | 11-storeys | Under construction
#21
Posted 09 February 2010 - 09:25 AM
#22
Posted 09 February 2010 - 09:39 AM
Didn't the Falls come in somewhere around $80 million? Aria, Shutters, and Swallows Landing were all cheaper by quite a bit, yes?...the density is necessary to make the $80- million project work.
So is this Esquimalt building really going to be in the same league as these other projects?
For the precedent they're trying to set, I'd say this Esquimalt proposal should have to be darned near terrific. But the news items never seem to mention anything about the design/materials/appearance of the building!
#23
Posted 09 February 2010 - 09:44 AM
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#24
Posted 09 February 2010 - 10:00 AM
^no kidding. Where are the renderings?
It appears similar to the Gateway Green tower except with some sort of transparent diagonal billboard or text element mounted at the top of the facade.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#25
Posted 09 February 2010 - 10:02 AM
#26
Posted 09 February 2010 - 10:04 AM
I presume the lettering would be neon?
Yes, it will be. It can read "No suites for rent" or "One bedroom available" if needed.
#27
Posted 09 February 2010 - 10:20 AM
The last time I heard so much criticism about something nobody has seen was fifteen years ago when James Cameron said he was making a Titanic movie.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#28
Posted 13 April 2010 - 02:43 AM
12-storey limit not viable, branch complains
By Kim Westad, Times Colonist
April 12, 2010
Esquimalt Legion brass say the Esquimalt institution might have to close its doors after council indicated last night that building heights in the town likely will be limited to 12 storeys.
Read more: http://www.timescolo...l#ixzz0kyYigbQl
#29
Posted 13 April 2010 - 08:23 AM
#30
Posted 13 April 2010 - 08:45 AM
Hooray for arbitrary limits! You tell those old veteran drunks, Esquimalt! This site would be much better as an abandoned building for years maybe one day turning into a parking lot or cheap 4 story wood-frame. Screw density and screw saving the legion.
Folks have to smoke crack somewhere - if Equimalt wants it to happen in an abandoned building on their main drag, good luck with that. Feel bad for the vets, though.
#31
Posted 13 April 2010 - 09:13 AM
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#32
Posted 13 April 2010 - 09:15 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#33
Posted 13 April 2010 - 10:15 AM
Here's a rendering of a building simply labeled "Constance" on the Praxis Architecture website. Doesn't the legion site back onto Constance Avenue? Though I think there was another proposed tower further north on Constance a few years ago, so this could be that. This looks to be 14 stories.
http://www.praxisarc...Rconstance.html
Edit: Yeah, that tower is further north on the corner of Admirals and Woodley. Notice the blue sign - http://maps.google.c...188.95,,0,-9.82
#34
Posted 30 April 2010 - 06:51 AM
Unfortunately, that council was inclined to drink the kool-aid passed around by the guys in the shiny suits that night. Fortunately the economic downturn hit before these guys could start to dig and we sit and wait to see what it will all look like.
This is not the first time the Esquimalt Legion has been on the edge of collapse. When the smoking ban first became law, there was a flurry of feathers from that corner because this would break them. No one would go there to have a beer or play bingo; they must be granted an exemption...The building may as well implode etc. etc. etc...Well, last time I drove by there were cars in the parking lot. My mother-in-law still goes there for bingo every Tuesday night and it is as popular as it ever was: more so, in fact, as the lovely folk with the fluffy white hair don't have to put up with smelling like cigarette smoke on the long drive back home to Saanich, Oak Bay or where-ever they live.
#35
Posted 26 May 2010 - 05:21 AM
Esquimalt to get taller
Times Colonist May 26, 2010
Esquimalt council has approved a change to its town plan that will allow for buildings up to 12 storeys in certain areas.
Read more: http://www.timescolo...l#ixzz0p2czvkSQ
#36
Posted 19 May 2011 - 09:05 AM
#37
Posted 19 May 2011 - 09:53 AM
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#38
Posted 31 May 2011 - 10:06 AM
#39
Posted 13 July 2011 - 12:42 PM
Or is it just "all buildings bigger than my house are view towers" ?
#40
Posted 13 July 2011 - 12:49 PM
The Corvette to me, from the map on the web site, appears to be the BC Liquor store site.
The Legion seems to be a seperate development by Monimos. See Legion site on Monimos web page here:
http://www.monimos.c...tower/index.php
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