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Another two units run parallel to one another from the middle of the second floor to the back of the building where patio doors take you to a breathtaking view of the Grand River. Each unit has a private patio space with direct view at the Forks of the Grand! All the second-floor condos are approximately 800-900 square feet each.

Just off the second-floor common area is access to the renovated apartment above Arepa Love. Henry plans to rent this unique apartment to one lucky tenant who will have elevator access, but also an upper-level loft that opens to one massive outdoor patio living space on the rooftop of Arepa Love.

Finally, the piece-de-resistance, the third-floor penthouse condos, each 1,600 square feet, capturing both street views and river views.

The building’s front elevation design was created to allow for a streetscape patio for these penthouse owners, thanks to a brilliant concept pitched by Henry’s longtime friend and designer David Powell.

The basement will include storage units, accessible by elevator, for each of the residential condos and the commercial units

Brian Stolp, co-owner of Re/Max Twin City Realty Inc, will be listing these five condominium units for sale by the end of this year.

The entire project is overseen by Lanca Construction Ltd in collaboration with the structural engineer, Cohoon Engineering. The building’s mechanical and electrical work was installed by Mechelec.

The new building is built with a combination of building materials, explains the site supervisor, Jeremy Pickering, from Lanca Construction.

“The foundation is pinned deep into the bedrock with grout filled steel piles approximately 20 feet deep. From there, poured concrete footings attach all of these together. These bare the weight of block walls and steel beams. The concrete floors are precast panels which are delivered and placed on top of the steel at each level, including the roof,” said Pickering. He’s busy coordinating the efforts of all the subcontractors, which includes the delicate job of keeping the job on timeline while keeping the community happy “With all the trades, parking is difficult considering we have a very small area to receive material and use equipment. We do our best to keep everything clean and make sure all the lights stay on through the boarded sidewalk,” said Pickering. The space between the boarded sidewalk and the construction site is tight. When bigger deliveries were needed and involved large equipment (like the crane you probably saw downtown over the winter) Pickering said Lanca relied on its internal traffic controllers to always ensure pedestrian and vehicular safety