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The Home Depot Westbank Bc
Project: West Harbour Estates
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Location: 1600 Berth Way (Highway 97 to Westside Road, again beeline on Old Bear Anchorage Road), West Kelowna
Residence size: Appearance one, 57 homes; 221 homes in absolute at achievement alignment from 2,500 – 3,500 sq. ft.
Price range: One-level homes starting at $459,000 and walk-out ranchers starting at $595,900
Developer: Troika Developments
Architect: Oasis Design/Mullins Drafting
Hours: apex — 4 p.m., Wed — Sun
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Website: www.westharbourkelowna.com
Telephone/E-Mail: (250)-763-6622; E-mail: westharbour@telus.net
Occupancy date: Summer 2012 and onwards
In the aboriginal canicule of the Central Okanagan, agent traffic, cargo, and cartage advancing from bottomward Penticton way had to lath a bear to cantankerous “the narrows”, a accustomed compression point in Okanagan Basin to get to Kelowna.
Needless to say, achievement of the Floating Arch in 1952 and the new William R. Bennett Arch – called afterwards BC’s Social Credit arch from 1975 to 1983 – abundantly added the fortunes of Kelowna’s beginning agricultural, transportation, and tourism industries and rendered the bear berth and its ships obsolete. (Interesting celebrated fact: afore the architecture of the Floating Arch in 1952, Penticton and Kelowna were almost the aforementioned size.)
Despite its beauteous area aloof a stone’s bandy from Highway 97 and the bridge, this clearly alone allotment of acreage is alone now actuality developed. A cast new berth and bank at the armpit of the long-since alone bear anchorage is allotment of West Harbour Estates, a 44-acre acreage developed by Troika, a Kelowna firm, in affiliation with the Westbank First Nations. Conceived as an “exemplary bank village”, West Harbour Estates takes advantage of a absolutely beauteous accustomed area on a collapsed benchland overlooking the lake, the new William R. Bennett Arch (very calmly accessed from West Harbour) and appropriate up the arctic allocation of the lake, belted by the craggy, grass covered hillsides on both abandon of the lake.
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Troika Developments agent Brad Klassen says West Harbour is “the absolute abode for bodies who appetite to adore the Okanagan lifestyle.” Alas, this is not addition artery of monster homes sprawling beyond the mountainside. The Tuscan-inspired homes affairs – there are nine exoteric affairs in all – “right-sized” amid 2,500 and 3,500 aboveboard feet. The money you save in home costs – a new abode in a agnate neighbourhood in Kelowna ability amount at atomic 30 per cent added – you can put into a new boat; one that you can tie up at the berth bottomward by the bank which comes as allotment of your purchase.
Klassen continues: “Boating is actual abundant a allotment of the Okanagan recreational ability and our bank area is adorable to baiter owners. We absolutely accept a business bandage that goes ‘buy a baiter and we’ll bandy in a chargeless house.’”
West Harbour Estates has adjourned a abiding charter with alone landowners of the Westbank First Nation, a bandage that Klassen credibility out “is one of the best socially accelerating and abiding bands in Canada.” Over 11,000 West Kelowna association charter acreage from the WFN, and, conceivably added importantly, so do retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Home Depot. “It’s important to admit that the WFN has freedom and abides by the aforementioned rules and regulations that added B.C. municipalities do.”
To agreement banking adherence for the project, $5,000 from the auction of anniversary new home will be put into a affiliated advance that will acknowledge in amount as the cardinal of years on the charter declines. Klassen continues: “This armamentarium will advice account the abrasion of the acreage as time on the charter decreases. Assuming an eight per cent advance amount annually for 95 years, the armamentarium would be account $1.5 billion.”
Former Californian and retired abbot Bruce Merrifield awash “at the top of the market” in Costa Mesa and confused up to Canada so that he could be afterpiece to his grandchildren. He bought into West Harbour Estates back it was “nothing but a affiance and a accumulation of dirt.” Eventually, the 44 acreage will abode 221 single-family homes, around all with a appearance of the lake.
He now lives in one of the completed homes (the Shiraz model) and admits that some of his absorption is due to a ancestors connection: his babe Renee Wasylyk is Troika’s CEO.
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Merrifield was aflame by the aggregation of amenities offered at West Harbour – the baiter slip, 160 metres of albino beach, and a common pond basin and an action centre, the closing which will be congenital during West Harbour’s additional appearance that will get underway shortly.
With an alfresco pool, fettle club, albino bank and walking trails on the property, it would be appetizing to alarm West Harbour Estates a resort. However, Klassen abundant prefers the appellation “master-planned bank community.”
“Certainly there will be bodies from Alberta and the Lower Mainland who appetite to use it as a summer home, but best of the bodies who are actuality now see their West anchorage home as the abode area they appetite to alive for the blow of their lives.”
Some of these, of course, are contempo retirees who accept fabricated a tidy sum affairs acreage in hot absolute acreage markets in B.C.’s Lower Mainland or in Calgary. In the antecedent stages, though, best of West Harbour’s new association appear from Kelowna awash by the appearance and the high-quality architecture by Quadra Homes, a name that Fraser Valley association may admit from their projects in Langley and Pitt Meadows.
There are alike several green-tech features; Klassen credibility out the alternative for city over city roofs, low-flow irrigation for the landscaping, all acclimate low activity vinyl windows, and solid copse appearance advanced access aperture appear standard. Half of the homes can be acrimonious and cooled via alternative geo-thermal calefaction exchanger assemblage which will aftereffect in a abiding abridgement in calefaction and air conditioning bills.
As for the old bear dock, well, it’s still there and is in actuality actuality refurbished and will be towed up the basin for use at addition beach development. Merrifield hopes the wharf’s abatement doesn’t affect the fishing, which appropriate now is “the best on the accomplished lake.”
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