"The Meadows" as seen from a
walking path on Main Street. These attached row houses are located on a
dead end street off the Fauxburg Road. Here is another
approach to creating retirement homes.. Described as "maintenance free
living" these condos have no
"meet-and-greet" room and in fact are offset and semi-detached. There
are two
bedroom units in all of them.. Each has 1300 square feet of floor area,
two
bedrooms. a living/dining area, two full baths and outdoor parking for
two vehicles. They have property for
gardening or simply siting about in a "meadow."
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Mahone Bay is a retirement
village and much of its housing is now being aimed at this market. The
condominium/apartment floor plan, seen here includes 34 units three floors, ranging in price from $229,000 to
$359,000. To date (February 2009) fifteen of them had been sold. All
are the size of a fairly large detached house at 1200 to almost 1,800
square feet. No parking or snow removal problems since there is an underground garage and
elevators to the various floors. There is an
"amenity area" on the
ground floor, very like a hotel check in lobby. It's shoes off at the
door as every square inch of corridor floor is carpeted. The balconies
associated with the apartments are generally small but high end
apartments include access to roof top terraces.
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| The artist's rendering. The
advertisers
are correct in representing this place as "basking in the bliss
of nature's splendour." They have done a very good job at preserving
mature trees and, in summer, the complex is much more shielded
and private than this rendering suggests. The
Quinlan people say that
they designed the condominium complex "in harmony with the original
Cape Cod homestead." Problem is 482 Main Street, the
original modest Inglis home was a Gothic Revival house built in
1858 rather than 1758. The Estate is named for John Quinlan who married
into the Inglis family with disastrous effect.
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