Stonehaven

This nine-storey building was erected in 1978, with its condo plan registered in 1981, so it's unclear if it took three years to build or was built as a rental building but soon condo converted. With a small laundry room on each floor and no in-suite laundries initially, I'd guess it started as a rental building. The construction is of pre-fabricated concrete sections, similar to Rocky Mountain Court in downtown, so I nickname these Mechano-set buildings.

Stonehave has 60 suites plus two ground-floor commercial condo units. Parking is all indoors assigned common property over three levels, one of them in-ground, the other two levels above grade behind the tower, with separate accesses from Twelfth Avenue for the upper level, and from Seventh Street for the lower parking levels.

All suites have deep full-width balconies, but four south-facing suites enjoy even larger decks over top of the parkade. Two of those suites were created from former under-used gym and games room space that the Board amended the condo plan to subdivide. I'm always impressed by that kind of initiative, which reduces the Board's liability and expenses, and creates new revenue from additional condo contributions. There is a huge common-property deck atop the roof of the parkade, but few owners use it, as they already have a nice balcony or deck.

Smaller one-bedroom suites are of 594 square feet, smaller two-bedroom suites are about 745, and there are larger two-bedroom suites of up to 904 square feet. Suites all have in-suite storage, but there are also basement lockers. Condo fees include the in-suite electrical expense. South-facing suites receive lots of sun as there are no towers to the building's south, and upper-floor north-facing suites have nice views towards downtown and see the new Xenex Condos tower across Twelfth Avenue.

Exterior windows and doors at Stonehaven are each suite owner's resonsibility. I have the Condo Plan on file.