Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
I think there's a lot of people who would like to live downtown and that 250 of them have money. It has the potential to be the only true luxury residential building downtown.

imo the residential units at the Book Cadillac aren't actually very nice. It's like they were an afterthought. A lot of spaces that don't make much sense, a lot of bad detailing, and a lot of thoughtlessness and cheapness, with a few really expensive looking features added in. Like a McMansion or something. It's shocking to me that they were asking so much money for such mediocre units. Unless they were counting on the condo owners to renovate.
To caveat on this... Many of the "high end" housing buildings downtown are repurposed buildings. Book Cadillac, Broderick Tower, Lofts at Merchants Row, etc. Although these are historic buildings, and valuable redevelopments right in the downtown core, there is something to be said for "high end" housing built with the specific purpose of housing a family. While the converted properties are absolutely awesome to have there are no constraints to this new construction. Everything can be designed and built with purpose. That is not a shot against the repurposed buildings, just a reality of new construction without boundaries and limitations.