![]() ![]() “It was a very different culture and the food was very different, of course,” he said. “It was a big change” trading Texas for Great Britain, he recalled, while sitting in the Lakehouse sales office between Stuart and Raleigh streets along West 17 th Avenue. Living in London changed his way of looking at real estate, but maybe not consciously. “My father always said to me that the most important thing is the best job is one where you cannot wait to get out of bed and start each day,” he said. However, it wasn’t preordained that he would follow in his father’s footsteps. He was always talking about the architecture of buildings.” “We would go on family vacations and he would always be taking photos of floors in shopping malls, or light fixtures in office buildings. ![]() ![]() Trevor Hines and Brian Levitt stand next to a model of the Lakehouse in its sales center. “Empty nesters are willing to wait until it opens in 2 years, while the younger professionals will start to really get interested when it is about a year from opening,” Garrett said. “They are truly spectacular views,” he said.Įarly buyers primarily are from out-of-state, where they are accustomed to having tony towers along the water, such as Seattle, Chicago, Portland and New York.Įmpty nesters downsizing from giant suburban homes also have been buying units. “We have one part that provides views to the west and the north, so you capture the mountains and the lake,” Garrett said. Units are being listed by Dee Chirafisi, Kevin Garrett and Matt McNeil, of Kentwood City Properties.Įven before construction started and 25 months from completion, 13 percent of the units have been reserved, with four or five of the buyers combining units with views to die for. The sale price equates to $69.69 per square foot. NAVA paid $6.68 million for the 2.24-acre site. If you figured the average price of a unit at $800,000, it puts the completed value of the tower at $164.8 million. Trevor Hines and Brian Levitt, with a rendering of the Lakehouse in the background. ![]()
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