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Tribeca Lofts’ ceremony turns up availability of 12 downtown apartments

Address: Richards and Nelson, Vancouver

Project Size: 53 lofts and apartments, of which 12 are unsold

Residence size: Originally, from one bedroom with home office, about 600 sq. ft., to two bedroom with home office, about 1,100 sq. ft.

Price: From $279,900

Developer: Chandler Development Group

Architect: Hancock Bruckner

Groundbreakings are rarely news, although it’s possible to dig up news at them.

For example, a groundbreaking on Friday that Rennie Marketing Systems organized generated this news: 12 lofts and flats are still available at the Tribeca Lofts project.

The Tribeca development generated its share of notice earlier this year, not least because of the marketing pitch — that living in a Tribeca residence would be akin to living in a “New York Style Loft.”

(Whatever is on offer figuratively, 41 sold before Friday’s ceremonial observation of the start of construction.)

For the Tribeca Tribune, the project was one more example of the “Manhattanization” of the world.

“From Dallas to Dublin, the neighbourhood name is being adopted by restaurants, bars, a social club, financial and marketing firms, a cigar store and a yacht,” the 10-year-old community monthly reported.

“Even a recycling company … calls itself Tribeca.”

The report quoted Regis Chung, owner of the Tribeca restaurant of Vancouver, as saying: “At first, only people who had travelled or been reading the papers and hearing about De Niro’s restaurant and ‘John-John’ knew what it was.”

Five years on, “the town also sports a condo development by the same name,” the Tribune commented.

It also reported “Tribeca lofts” have sprung up in Santa Barbara, Calif., Seattle and Dallas.

Two colour schemes are available, with the black and white, called (of course) Broadway and the brown SoHo.

In the kitchen, the floor is hardwood and the appliances stainless steel. Bosch will supply the gas range; Amana, the fridge.

The starting price on the 12 residences left is $279,900. Call Rennie Marketing Systems at 604-682-2088.

By the way, the Lower Manhattan neighbourhood is called Tribeca ias a short from of of Triangle Below Canal Street.

© The Vancouver Sun 2005

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