Private amenities add to Union Park’s appeal
Credit to Author: Mary Beth Roberts| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:00:27 +0000
When you buy an apartment in a new development in the Lower Mainland, you typically get some smart new appliances in a modern kitchen, a shiny new bathroom or two and perhaps a small deck or patio. But Polygon is offering a whole lot more than that at its 590-home Union Park development in Langley.
The big draw here is Union Park’s 12,000-square-foot clubhouse and the 85,000-square-foot park it stands in (more on that later). Homes will be arranged in four low-rise apartment buildings around this central amenity and Polygon is launching the third of them at the end of the month.
“We’re right next to Yorkson Community Park in Langley’s Willoughby neighbourhood,” said Goldie Alam, Polygon’s senior vice president of marketing. “The park is being expanded right now. When it’s finished it will provide 52 acres of park space and there will be playing fields, baseball diamonds, off-leash areas for dogs, a water park, a playground and a picnic area. The park plan includes tennis courts and a skate park too.”
Union Park will have a 12,000 square foot club house and the 85,000 square foot park it stands in.
“I would say that Willoughby is the fastest-growing neighbourhood in Langley and there are lots of amenities in the area,” Alam added. “It’s packed with young homebuyers – singles, couples and young families.”
Riley Schmidt is one of those young homebuyers. He bought a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at Union Park.
“I live in Port Coquitlam and I’m getting married this summer and my wife and I will be moving into the apartment when it’s ready in March,” said Schmidt. “We both went to school in Langley at Trinity Western so we’re familiar with the area and love it out there. You’ve got everything you could need close by. I work in Port Coquitlam and my wife will be working in Langley, so the location really works for us.”
Union Park homes have between one and three bedrooms and range in size from 540 to 1,080 square feet. The new building is scheduled to be move-in ready by the fall of 2021 and two-bedroom homes are priced from $399,900, with further pricing details still to be released at the time of writing.
“Every home has a kitchen island or extended countertop, so the kitchens are very spacious and designed for hosting friends and family,” said Alam. “It’s unusual in one-bedroom homes these days to have space for a dining room and a kitchen island. All the homes with ensuite bathrooms have spa-style showers with benches in them and most of them have dual sinks as well.”
Kitchen features at Union Park in Langley will include flat-panelled cabinetry, soft-close doors, stainless-steel fixtures and dual roll-out recycling bin stations.
Other kitchen features include flat-panelled cabinetry, soft-close doors, stainless-steel fixtures and dual roll-out recycling bin stations. Bathrooms have porcelain tile flooring and custom cabinetry with polished chrome pulls, engineered stone countertops and high-efficiency dual-flush toilets. Elsewhere in the home, residents will find laminate wood flooring, carpets in the bedrooms, covered decks or ground-floor patios, horizontal blinds, and hard-wired smoke detectors, carbon monoxide monitors and fire sprinklers.
Then there’s that clubhouse – The Union Club. This features a large outdoor pool with patio seating and whirlpool spa, an air-conditioned fitness studio, a basketball court, two separate lounges, a billiards/games room, an on-site concierge, two music rehearsal rooms and two guest suites for out-of-town visitors.
“For a lot of our buyers it’s important that they’re getting something that’s been built by Polygon,” said Alam. “We’ve built a lot of homes in the area and there’s confidence in our products and trust that we’re there for the long term. This is important for people who are buying for the first time and for their parents who may be helping them.”
“We had a lot of buyers in their twenties, early in the working life, who saw the value here,” Alam added. “These types of buyers often tell their friends because they want them to live in the same community. People start thinking about hanging out by the pool with their friends, so we’ve had a lot of referrals that way.”
Polygon’s Union Park project in Langley will offer 590 homes with between one and three bedrooms ranging in size from 540 to 1,080 square feet.
The developers will be putting new Union Park homes on sale from Saturday, February 29 and are encouraging anybody who is interested to pre-register. Alam said she expects there will be high demand because both the first two buildings sold quickly.
Schmidt bought during the development’s second phase and is excited to be moving in soon.
“We really loved how beautiful the architecture of these buildings is – how esthetically pleasing they are from the outside – as well the quality of Polygon’s interior finishing,” he said. “It’s something we’re super excited about.”
“We did a lot of research and we really like Polygon and the quality of the work they do,” Schmidt added. “We checked out their past projects. Once we saw the amenities that were being provided at Union Park, we were thrilled and we knew we had to make it happen.”
Project location: 20712 82nd Avenue, Langley, BC
Project size: 590 homes with between one and three bedrooms ranging in size from 540 to 1,080 square feet. Two-bedroom homes in phase three are priced from $399,900, with further pricing details still to be released at the time of writing.
Developer: Polygon Union Park
Architect: Ciccozzi Architecture
Interior designer: Polygon Interior Design Inc.
Sales centre: 20712 82nd Avenue, Langley, BC
Sales centre hours (from February 29th): noon to 5 p.m. daily, except Fridays
Sales phone: 604 882-0098
Website:polyhomes.com
Bathrooms at Union Park project in Langley will have porcelain tile flooring and custom cabinetry with polished chrome pulls, engineered stone countertops and high-efficiency dual-flush toilets.