Fairwinds at Hampton Cove at 5550 Admiral Way Ladner 147 townhomes by Fairwinds Polygon Homes Ltd
Polygon’s Fairwinds at Hampton Cove fits the bill for home-hunting pair
Barbara Gunn
The Vancouver Sun
Fairwinds at Hampton Cove
Project address: 5550 Admiral Way, Ladner
Project size: 147 two-, three- and four-bedroom townhomes
Residence size: up to 1,500 square feet
Price: from $649,900
Developer: Fairwinds Polygon Homes Ltd.
Architect: Raymond Letkeman Architects Inc.
Interior designer: Polygon Interior Design Ltd.
Sales centre: 5550 Admiral Way
Hours: noon — 6 p.m., Sat — Thurs.
Telephone: 604-946-8812
Website: polyhomes.com/community/fairwinds
Occupancy: Early 2017
For Melissa Goldie and husband Harry McWilliams, the search for a new home was anything but brief.
They started their hunt about 18 months ago, exploring the options in Steveston, Surrey and Ladner, intent on finding something larger than the one-bedroom condo where they currently live.
At first glance, a townhome in Surrey seemed perfect. It was “beautiful and fit the bill,” Goldie thought — that is, until she glimpsed the view of traffic from the kitchen window.
“[It] was unbearable,” she says, “at least, for the price they were asking.”
Arriving at Polygon’s master-planned Hampton Cove community in Ladner, however, the couple found something that offered everything they were looking for: a townhouse with three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and almost 1,400 square feet of living space — this, in the community’s 147-unit Fairwinds phase.
“Fairwinds has a two-car garage, yard space and is brand new,” the 36-year-old Goldie enthuses. “Nice finishes and well laid out, but the price was the main attraction initially. The area is also a huge draw. The community has a small-town feel.”
Goldie and McWilliams will make their home in a riverside community that’s a short hop from the Ladner core. Hampton Cove, which will ultimately have some 670 homes, primarily townhomes, is steps from Delta’s 16-kilometre Millennium Trail and nestled between a golf course and a marina, which will be redeveloped with a small commercial village, upgraded to accommodate larger boats and renamed the Hampton Cove Yacht Club.
For Goldie, another huge draw of the development is the coming Hampton Club, a 12,000-square-foot residents-only facility that will include an outdoor swimming pool, barbecue and entertainment area, playground, screening room, gymnasium, music rooms and guest suites. Currently under construction, it is scheduled to open next spring.
“I expect we will be at the pool on a regular basis,” she says. “I have a nephew and niece who adore the water and are already looking forward to it.
“I also look forward to the fireside lounge with the pool table, and the ability to hopefully be able to use that for personal events that are larger than my townhouse can accommodate.”
Goldie Alam, Polygon’s senior vice-president of marketing, says Fairwinds is distinguished from Charterhouse — the community’s first phase, now fully sold — in that homes are slightly smaller, has brighter exterior colours, and is “a little more clean-lined and contemporary”.
Homes, painted in a mix of beach-y greys, greens and soft yellows, are “more designed for families and first-time buyers,” she says, and proving to attract people from throughout the region.
“There aren’t a lot of townhomes out here, and the demand is really high,” Alam says.
Three fully furnished display suites showcase the layout options at Fairwinds, which takes a seaside-inspired design befitting its position on the south bank of the Fraser.
Details include picket fences and metal-panelled front doors with porthole windows and polished chrome hardware. Homes will have decks or patios, private yards and double garages.
Inside, residences will have laminate wood flooring in the main living areas, nylon carpeting in bedrooms and blinds on all windows. Ceilings will rise to nine feet on the main floors.
Two colour schemes — ‘Sunrise’ and ‘Sunset’ — are on offer.
Kitchens will be fitted with polished engineered stone counters, imported ceramic tile backsplashes, laminate square-line profile cabinetry, halogen track lighting and double stainless steel sinks.
Main-floor powder rooms will have porcelain tile flooring, wall-mounted sinks and dual-flush toilets, while ensuites will have dual porcelain sinks and large vanity mirrors. The latter will feature either a tub-shower combination or a shower with a built-in bench.
Main bathrooms, meanwhile, will have bathtubs with ceramic tile surrounds, porcelain sinks, engineered stone counters and Grohe faucets.
For Goldie and McWilliams, meantime, a purchase at Fairwinds was a matter of perseverance paying off: they were at the sales centre five nights before sales launched last month. They slept in their van, took turns visiting nearby friends to shower, and walked to a pub for meals. For its part, Polygon brought in sun tents, water and ice cream, as well as takeout from a Ladner seafood restaurant the last night of the campout.
“The process of waiting in line created an incredible bonding experience with some of our new neighbours,” Goldie says. “It was a really cool experience. I would do it again.”
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