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‘Legacy’ livingFALSE CREEK I First look at Millennium Water/Athletes’ Village residences

At last count, the Millennium Water sales and marketingcampaign organized by Bob Rennie, here in the recentlyopened sales centre, had received more than 4,000

expressions of interest. The homes he and the Millenniumdevelopment company are bringing to market may be themost studied designs ever in the history of new-home

projects locally. ‘Every plan has been through 12 to 16revisions,’ Rennie reports, the thoroughness driven by adesire to anticipate design three years from now. Story, K2

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About Your House, CanadaMortgage and Housing’s freenewsletter, provides a homemaintenance calendar thatdetails tasks to be performedevery season. The maintenance schedule sug-gests homeowners:■ Have their furnaces or heatingsystems serviced — every twoyears for a gas furnace andevery year for an oil furnace.■ Vacuum electric baseboardheaters to remove dust.■ Check chimneys for obstruc-tions, such as nests.■ Drain and store outdoorhoses.■ Ensure that windows and sky-lights close tightly.■ Replace window screens withstorm windows.■ Lubricate the circulating pumpon hot-water heating systems.For more information aboutCMHC’s recommended year-round maintenance tips, visitwww.cmhc.ca

USE TAX TO GO GREENThree representatives of thelocal development and construc-tion industries want the provin-cial government to use the Prop-erty Transfer Tax to encourage“green” construction and reno-vations.The B.C. chapter of the Canadi-an Home Builders’ Association,the B.C. Real Estate Associationand the Real Estate Board ofGreater Vancouver made thesuggestion in a recent meetingwith government representa-tives.Among the recommendations:“Provide a PTT rebate to buyersof homes that meet or exceedthe standards of the Built Greenprogram.”“Each Built Green ‘Gold’ homesaves 21⁄2 tonnes of green-house-gas emissions annually,”a home builders’ news releasereports.

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The Millennium Water show home’skitchen illustrates why Bob Rennie

anticipates visitors to the new-home community’s sales centre willreact with, ‘Wow, this is the future.’That future will be constructed from

a mostly European presence . . . ■ Miele of Germany will supply

most of the appliances, consistingof (at least) a gas cook top; a hoodfan; a wall oven; and a dishwasher.

All will be Energy Star compliant.■ Eggersmann of Germany will

supply the cabinetry.■ Dornbracht of Germany willsupply the faucets of polished

chrome.■ Sub-Zero will supply the

refrigerators and wine coolers,where offered, and Panasonic, the

microwaves.The Millennium Water developer

is offering buyers three colourpalettes for their homes, the labelsrepresenting the ‘legacy’ status of

the homes: ‘Vancouver’ (light); ‘Canada’ (medium);and ‘world’ (dark).

‘Water’homeshave anOlympic

look

Millennium WaterProject location: Southeast False Creek,

VancouverProject size: 733 market homes (302 in

Phase 1); 16 residential buildingsResidence size: 600 sq. ft. to 2,400 sq. ft.Prices: $450,000 to $3.5 million (in Phase

1)Presentation centre address: 212 West

First; entrance on Cook Street, betweenWest First and West Second

Hours: Noon to 6 p.m., Sat. to Thurs.Telephone: 604-733-2010E-mail: info@millenniumwater.comDeveloper: Millennium Southeast False

Creek Properties Ltd.Architects: Arthur Erickson, with Nick

Milkovich & Lawrence Doyle Architects;Gomberoff Bell Lyon Architect Group;Merrick Architecture Borowski LintottSakumoto Fligg Ltd.; Walter Francl Archi-tect

Interior design: Coordinated Hotel InteriorsLtd.

Occupancy: Summer and fall, 2010

PHOTOS: IAN SMITHVANCOUVER SUN

STORY: MICHAEL SASGESWESTCOAST HOMES

The Millennium Water new-home community is big. Itwill be green and it will beg o r g e o u s , h o m e s a n d

grounds. But it is primarily big becausethe 2010 Winter Olympics’ athletes,coaches and administrators will residein the homes before their owners.

Failure to construct those apart-ments on time and on budget, would

Athletes will stay in thehomes while competingin 2010 Winter Games

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Efficiency of spacewill be a keycontributor tosuccessful residencyof a Millennium Waterapartment. Inside, storage spaceand over-heightceilings and, outside,large balconies will beamong thoseefficiencies.

therefore be a big failure by a hostcountry — a failure nationally andinternationally — as the worldlooks on.

It is good, then, to remember:■ The Millennium Water princi-

pals, Peter Malek and ShahramMalek, are experienced multi-building developers whose workhas generated national and inter-national prizes in industry compe-titions; they are also men who aretreating this new-home project as a“Canadian legacy.”

■ Vancouver City Hall is anOlympic Games and athletes vil-lage partner. Since Expo 86, its staff

has also directed and expeditedrejuvenation and densificationefforts that have helped elevateVancouver to object-of-the-world’s-desires status.

“First of all, we have very goodconstruction crews,” ShahramMalek says to the question: Canyou do it in time?

“We have two of the best con-tractors in town [Metrocan Con-struction Ltd. and ITC Group] andhave had for almost two years. Ithink everybody recognizes thishas to be finished by a certain date.So people are not looking out forroadblocks; they're coming up withsolutions.

No roadblocks here,just finding solutions

From K2

See CITY PLAYS K6

‘‘Additionally, the City of Van-couver has been extremely help-ful. They, obviously, play a bigrole in this, in terms of expedit-ing the matters all city halls usu-ally do, getting permits arranged,making sure problems are antic-ipated. The city set up a projectoffice just for this project.’’

Preparation of the seven cityblocks on which the athletes vil-lage and, after the Games, theMillennium Water residencesand grounds will be located,started last winter.

Millennium and the city arescheduled to turn buildings andgrounds over to Games organiz-ers in November 2009. They arescheduled to get them back inApril 2010.

The residences will go to theOlympics with their kitchenssealed off and their hardwoodfloors protected.

“Somebody said the other day,and I thought it was cute, ‘well,will we change the toilets?’ ’’reports Bob Rennie, organizer ofthe Millennium Water sales andmarketing campaign.

‘‘Well, the chances of a toilet ina new home not being used by aconstruction worker before youmove in are zero.’’

Those toilets will be water-sav-ing dual-flush toilets, one smallcontribution to the pursuit by thedeveloper of LEED ‘‘Gold’’ statusfor the 16 residential buildingsand by the city of LEED ‘‘Gold’’status for the neighbourhood.

LEED, short for Leadership inEnergy and EnvironmentalDesign, is a program started byAmerican builders to define anational standard for "greenbuilding." Up here, it is adminis-tered by the Canada Green Build-ing Council.

Other contributors to whateversuccess developer and city hallmight enjoy with i ts LEEDendeavours include:

■ Radiant capillary heatingand cooling in the ceilings and

blinds that automatically limitheat gain.

■ Natural flooring: stone in thebathrooms, wool carpeting in thebedrooms and floors of woodcertified by the Forest Steward-ship Council, like LEED, anotherGood Housekeeping-seal of envi-ronmentally sensitive construc-tion.

■ Construction materials andpaints free of volatile organiccompounds.

■ Energy monitors that alloweach household to “understandand control . . . resource-con-sumption habits,’’ in the words of

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City playshuge role

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One fine morning, the Vancouver and Millennium Water community imagined in the sales literature willnot seem so improbable for the passing pedestrian or bicyclist on the north shore of False Creek.

the Millennium Water featuresand amenities sheet.

■ Six acres of “green spaces,including parks . . . ponds, raingardens, children’s play areasand rooftop and community gar-dens.”

■ Every inducement imagin-able to lessen private-vehicleuse. Led by the nearby CanadaLine, now under construction,these will include “a hybrid-car-share program, bicycle paths,water taxis, streetcars and bus-es” and as much retail as possi-ble. Urban Fare, for example,will be the neighbourhood gro-cer.

■ A c o m m u n i t y c e n t r edesigned by Arthur Erickson inc o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h N i c kMilkovich and Walter Francland designed to “achieve aLEED platinum rating.” Thiscommunity centre will be man-aged by the Vancouver parkboard.

The homes — if the showhome in the recently opened

sales centre is a guide — will besophisticated mediums in whichhouseholds will be able toexpress their individuality andaspirations, attachments andloyalties.

For example, those floors ofstone and wood and wool car-pet, noted above, will be at leastnine feet below the ceilings inevery home. Their millwork willbe constructed from FSC-certi-fied wood.

The homes have undergoneexemplary scrutiny, exemplarybecause it was thorough andwas anticipatory.

“Every plan has been through12 to 16 revisions,” Renniereports.”But we’re not deliver-ing for three years.

“We have to be way ahead ofthe market to be current in threeyears.

“I think it shows because youwalk into that presentation cen-tre and you go, ‘Wow, this is thefuture.’ And that future is, effi-cient space-planning.”

Unlike the residential build-ings on the north shore of False

Creek, the Millennium Waterbuildings will not be toweringbuildings.

Instead, by city hall direction,they will be “horizontal” build-ings.

“In the official developmentplan for the area, which hadbeen underway for many yearsbefore our involvement, the citydidn’t want to see any towershere,” Millennium’s Malekreports.

“They wanted this to be dif-ferent from a typical tower situ-ation.

“The advantage of this form ofbuilding, which is the horizontalbuilding, is that everyone — Ishould say, most people — whowill be living in this complexwill be close to, or closer to,either the parks, the greenery, orthe water than they would bewere they living in a tower.

“That is a major benefit, thatyou are close to open spaces,greenery, the water.”

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Why the Maleks did it K12

The road that Peter and ShahramMalek and Bob Rennie took to theirrecently opened Millennium Water salescentre was long and winding.

“Milepost Zero” was the $193 millionthe Maleks agreed, in the spring of 2006,to pay the City of Vancouver for theproperty, a record land price locally andnationally.

Detours were many after that. Please

consider the following headline, from aVancouver Sun story in the fall of 2006,representative of the permitting journey:“ . . . Tempers flare as city planners andprivate developers lock horns over cre-ation of an Olympic Village that screamsWest Coast and sustainability.”

Why do it, why undertake such aremarkable expenditure of time andtreasure?

“One reason is that the property is thelast piece of waterfront around,”Shahram Malek said.

“Another is the fact that the wholecommunity is going to be built in one go.You’re going to see a seawall in place, acommunity centre in place, all the parksin place. You’re not going to be living ina construction zone.

“At the same time you’re going to haveancillary facilities built; the Canada Lineto the airport will be finished at approx-imately the same time.

“Those factors had enormous amountsof appeal.

“That the site will be used as theOlympic Village also, I think, added toits appeal.”

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Olympic Village site ‘lastpiece of waterfront around’