16 - Sundas, November 22, (987 - North Shore News

Big winners in W.

TWO BROTHERS and two sisters
from West Vancouver are the lat-
est North Shore lottery winners.

Edward, Herbert, Anne and
Elizabeth Rogers-Jones won
$538,246.80 on the Sept. 23 Lotto
6/49 draw after using the same
numbers they've been playing for
the past four years.

The four, who live with their
mother in West Vancouver, moved
to Canada in 1956 from Ruthin,
North Wales.

Part of the winnings will be put
toward a five-week family trip to
the United Kingdom.

The winning ticket was purchas-
ed at Harbour Smoke Plus in Van-
couver’s Sinclair Centre.

The Rogers-Jones have no plans
to quit their jobs, but are consider-
ing early retirement.

West Vancouver's most ambitious
townhome development is now taking
shape on a former movie studio site
high up on Hollyburn Mountain.

Polygon Development Limited, after
its success with The Summit of
Panorama Village, is now embarked
on a new project that could become
one of North America’s most
prestigious condominium residences:
Westpointe.

Michael Audain

Westpointe, now at the framing
stage, promises to be spectacular.
There will be a total of 42 spacious
duplex and attached homes with a
view that takes in an endless horizon
of city, sea, and mountain.

Polygon president Michael Audain
explains how Westpointe was
conceived, “When we were building
The Summit a couple of years aga, we
realized that the Panorama Studios
site next door could make an
outstanding location for luxury
condominiums, so with the support of
the Panorama Village residents
anxious to get rid of the ugly movie
studio with its annoying all hours
traffic, and with the encouragement of
the municipality, the land was rezoned
to permit us to build six homes per
acre?

‘This density was too low for
apartmenits, so we decided to build
large townhomes which seem to be in
short supply on the North Shore?
Audain explains, “We anticipate that
the buyers will include both West

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View from Westpointe Townhomes on Hollyburn Mountain.

Vancouver couples downsizing from
large single homes, as well as
international business people who
want to have a pied-a-terre in West
Vancouver. To make our plans
possible we retained internationally
renowned architect Rick Hulbert?

West Vancouver based Hulbert,
already well known for his innovative
residential designs across Canada and
the U.S., and former president of the
Royal Architectural Institute of
Canada, has lately been working on
major tourism ‘elated projects on
Australia’s Gold Coast.

Hulbert recounts that realizing
Polygon’s vision for the movie studio
was not easy. He explains, “The site
with its fantastic views is certainly
unique, but in order for all the homes
to share these views, we had to
essentially reconfigure the
mountainside back to where it was
before the movie studio was
excavated, and then design the project
as if the mountain had always been

there. This has involved significant
sums in foundation costs, but it's
already obvious that the task has been
worth it”

Westpointe's first homes, expected
to be completed in early 1988, will
have some interesting design touches
with eleven-foot ceilings providing a
great feeling of openness in the main
living areas. Natural light will pour
through the skylights warming the
brass hardware fittings, and gleaming
through open glass stair handrails.

Interior finishings will include marble
and oak floors in selected areas. Care
seems to have been taken to focus in
the home towards the panoramic view.

But what type of home buyers is
Westpointe likely to appeal to? Rick
Hulbert says, “The people that are
going to live here are likely to possess
three specific qualities and we have
tried to anticipate these in our design.
They are going to be very value
conscious in the sense that they want
their home to be a good long term

investment, secondly they are going to
want something a cut above the
typical condominium, something
unique. And finally, we have to
recognize that people who are going
to live at Westpointe are likely to have
earned a certain status in life and this
needs to be recognized in the form of
the architecture and the environment?

While scores of construction
workers now team over the site every
day, interior designers are busy
consuiting with the marketing team at
Polygon’s head office in downtown
Vancouver.

For prospective buyers who don't
mind wearing hard hats and rubber

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Jacqueline Askew

boots, Jacqueline Askew, sales
manager (telephone 922-9859), will
soon be previewing some of the newly
framed residences. Westpointe is
located at the top of Folkestone Way,
off the upper levels highway in West
Vancouver,