Emerald Stone

Emerald Stone is one of the earlier towers in the Uptown-17 pocket of the west Beltline: a 23-storey, 164-home concrete building completed in 2005, when the district's residential tower wave was just gathering pace. Its brick-detailed exterior and mid-2000s vintage give it an established, lived-in character, and its 15 Avenue address places it a block off 17th Avenue's western retail strip — close to the energy, a step removed from the noise.

As a building that predates most of its neighbours, Emerald Stone offers what newer towers can't yet: two decades of corporation history and a settled, owner-heavy community, at prices that have long made it one of the pocket's more attainable concrete options.

Completed in 2005 — the assessment roll carries 2004 from the parcel cycle — Emerald Stone is a 23-storey reinforced-concrete tower with brick detailing, developed by Procura according to secondary sources (an attribution worth confirming in project records). It arrived ahead of the Uptown pocket's later towers, helping establish 15 Avenue as a residential address adjacent to 17th Avenue's commercial spine.

Emerald Stone's 164 homes emphasize one- and two-bedroom plans at practical sizes, with corner units and upper-floor homes gaining skyline and ridge views over the low-rise blocks around them. Two decades of individual renovations make unit condition variable — the registered plan and a careful walkthrough matter more than the era's marketing plans, which measured generously.

Public sources report a fitness facility and shared owners' spaces — a modest, cost-proportionate program for a mid-2000s tower. Confirm the current amenity inventory and any use rules in the bylaws and recent minutes; amenity provisions of this vintage can drift from what older listings describe.

Underground parkade with titled and assigned arrangements varying by unit; storage lockers likewise — confirm on title. The Uptown location supports car-light living: 17th Avenue's western services are a block north, the 14 Avenue bikeway is nearby, and frequent avenue transit fills the longer walk to rail.

The 8th Street SW platform sits roughly 865 straight-line metres north-east — a twelve-minute walk, the honest trade for the Uptown-17 address's residential calm. Seventeenth Avenue's western strip begins a block north with frequent bus and MAX Yellow service, and the Sunalta station area is a comparable walk; the avenue substitutes for rail for many residents.

Emerald Stone sits in the Uptown-17 / Connaught pocket of the west Beltline — the leafier, more residential stretch of 17th Avenue's western reach, with Tomkins Park and the avenue's cafés and shops close at hand. It is a settled, walkable corner that trades the event district's intensity for tree-street calm, and Emerald Stone's early arrival gives it deeper roots here than most of its tower neighbours.

A 2005 reinforced-concrete tower now well into its second reserve-fund study cycle — the stage where the study's envelope, roof, elevator and mechanical timelines, and the corporation's record of executed capital work, become the purchase's real disclosure. Check insurance deductibles alongside. The corporation's structural drawings, engineering records and reserve-fund study define the slab system and its maintenance history.

For Emerald Stone: the current reserve-fund study and capital-work history at the twenty-year mark; insurance deductibles; pet, rental and short-term-stay bylaws; and titled parking and storage by search. As one of the pocket's more attainable concrete towers, confirm the reserve is keeping pace with its plan before treating the lower price as pure value.