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Essential Condominiums (Markham, Emery, 6s, Turner Fleischer) COMPLETE
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investican
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Where will this be located?
HONGKONG
New Member
Located on west of Mccowan rd & north of Bur Oak Ave , just beside the gas station.
canarob
Senior Member
What a strange location!
Outside of the big master-planned communities like Markham Centre, Langstaff, Cornell, etc., the placement of condo buildings in Markham along roads like McCowan and Markham/48 seems to be positively random. I really wish more effort had been made to set aside land for buildings like this closer to GO stations or along VIVA routes. The transit service along these roads is very poor (Markham Road is about a bus every hour, for example), so it will just mean more cars on the road. I'm all for densification along major routes, but it often seems like developers are merely adding them as an afterthought after building low-rise housing in better locations. This would be more workable if bus service was increased to every 25-30 minutes.
Some examples from Markham road south of 14th Avenue:
Outside of the big master-planned communities like Markham Centre, Langstaff, Cornell, etc., the placement of condo buildings in Markham along roads like McCowan and Markham/48 seems to be positively random. I really wish more effort had been made to set aside land for buildings like this closer to GO stations or along VIVA routes. The transit service along these roads is very poor (Markham Road is about a bus every hour, for example), so it will just mean more cars on the road. I'm all for densification along major routes, but it often seems like developers are merely adding them as an afterthought after building low-rise housing in better locations. This would be more workable if bus service was increased to every 25-30 minutes.
Some examples from Markham road south of 14th Avenue:
AlbertC
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Towered
Senior Member
The 'burbs just can't catch a break from this crap.
Solaris
Senior Member
It's a "Avenue" style low-rise building that brings density to the suburbs ... I see that as a good thing ~
Conrad Black
Senior Member
It is a good thing but can't they find a more interesting design for these things?
Solaris
Senior Member
lowrise Avenue style buildings are inadvertently costly to build/engineer in nature due to inefficiencies otherwise achieved in larger scale towers, plus the builder likely can't charge super high prices at this location ...
all these things have to be taken in consideration when developing a site, its not ONLY about how a building looks in the development industry ... if the economics doesn't work, there will be no new building
On a separate note, I wonder if the design was by Kirkor Architects, as this has the 'Solid Citizens' (brick) look typical in Markham ... ie: River Park @ Uptown Markham, Upper Village, Parkview Towers @ Galleria
all these things have to be taken in consideration when developing a site, its not ONLY about how a building looks in the development industry ... if the economics doesn't work, there will be no new building
On a separate note, I wonder if the design was by Kirkor Architects, as this has the 'Solid Citizens' (brick) look typical in Markham ... ie: River Park @ Uptown Markham, Upper Village, Parkview Towers @ Galleria
codename
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Turner Fleischer
investican
Active Member
Yeah these are both Del Ridge projects.
Both seem out of location considering the context of that part of Markham road.
--Emery owns a substancial number of industrial/office buildings in the warden/woodbine - hwy7/steeles area. They also own the sobey's plaza which is adjacent to where they are planning this condo.
Both seem out of location considering the context of that part of Markham road.
--Emery owns a substancial number of industrial/office buildings in the warden/woodbine - hwy7/steeles area. They also own the sobey's plaza which is adjacent to where they are planning this condo.
What a strange location!
Outside of the big master-planned communities like Markham Centre, Langstaff, Cornell, etc., the placement of condo buildings in Markham along roads like McCowan and Markham/48 seems to be positively random. I really wish more effort had been made to set aside land for buildings like this closer to GO stations or along VIVA routes. The transit service along these roads is very poor (Markham Road is about a bus every hour, for example), so it will just mean more cars on the road. I'm all for densification along major routes, but it often seems like developers are merely adding them as an afterthought after building low-rise housing in better locations. This would be more workable if bus service was increased to every 25-30 minutes.
Some examples from Markham road south of 14th Avenue:
Hipster Duck
Senior Member
Given the location, I can totally picture their target market: elderly Chinese people who want to live near their grown up kids. I think it will sell rather quickly.
junctionist
Senior Member
It doesn't look like a promising Avenue building because of the lack of commercial space on the ground floor.
NYk Drne
Active Member
Maybe you would prefer a 15 to 40 story glass tower with this buiding serving as a podium.
Perhaps a replacement in 30 to 40 years.
Perhaps a replacement in 30 to 40 years.
Solaris
Senior Member
MODs ... a clarification, the 2 buildings shown in canarob's post above (on Markham Road) are Del Ridge Homes' projects, while the Essential Condominiums is strictly by Emery Homes (not related to Del Ridge)