Antipodean brings an unusual mix to Beach Rd
As more development attention is paid to the foot of Anzac Avenue & Beach Rd, on the eastern fringe of Auckland’s cbd, Paul Doole has brought an unusual mix of units in his Antipodean Apartments project.
Even before Barfoot & Thompson Projects launched its marketing campaign at the weekend, 20 of the 161 apartments had contracts on them.
The property is on freehold land at 39 Beach Rd, across the road from the leasehold Scene 3, so upper levels of the 50m building will have an unobstructed view to the harbour over the Scene units on Quay Park, where there’s a 30m height limit.
One-third of the units in the development are “up-&-over” maisonettes, apartments on 2 levels with a bedroom on each level and living space on the upper level. A separate one-bedroom unit slots into the rest of the space on the lower level.
A feature right across the 65m-wide building is that all apartments will have wide frontages, all with balconies. Internal sizes range from 32m² studios and 41m² one-bedroom units through 64m² for some one-bedroom units, 81-85m² for single-level 2-bedroom units, 90m² for the maisonettes, up to a small selection of 126m² 3-bedroom units. Balconies will range from 6m² for the studios up to 49m² on some of the upper-level maisonettes.
The units are priced in a range of $10-15,000/m² plus parking, with 2.7m stud heights throughout. A quick word from Mr Doole as he passed through the display suite on Friday was enough to get the impression that quality fitouts will mean precisely that: “The old state house stud height was 2.4m.” In other words, no, he is not building the same as everybody else.
Like Mr Doole’s other developments, notably the Connaught on Waterloo Quadrant, the design by architect Paul Brown has an art deco finish. An “owners’ pavilion” out the back contains the 20m lap pool & sauna.
Barfoot & Thompson Projects manager Matt Baird some studios were priced at $370,000. Above that, the range was $450,000-2 million, $90,000 for single parking spaces & $135,000 for tandem.
Source:
Bob Dey Report