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Boardwalk is a mixed-use six storey office, commercial and rental residential building in Victoria's Burnside-Gorge neighbourhood's Selkirk Watefront Community.
Situated on the shores of the Gorge Waterway, Boardwalk features nearly 50,000 square feet of AA office space, over 2,300 square feet of commercial space fronting Waterfront Crescent and eight luxury rental condominiums overlooking the waterway. Boardwalk is the remaining undeveloped parcel of the multi-phased Selkirk Waterfront development by Jawl Properties.
A skybridge, the only such skywalk in Victoria, connects tenants of the office portion to an adjacent office building along Waterfront Crescent.
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2,237 square feet of ground floor retail space with double height ceilings and the potential for a mezzanine level fronts onto Waterfront Crescent.
Boardwalk - A Waterfront Residence, features eight rental units situated on the first two floors of Boardwalk with access off of Waterfront Crescent.
In case you didn't see my blog post in the Online Media thread I thought I would link it here as well. Would love to hear some more opinions on this and more thoughts on how it could still be saved!
http://sidewalkingvictoria.blogspot.ca/2016/07/selkirk-waterfront-failure-of-perfect.html
Great observations G-Man. The exclusion of the outside is the key. It connects better to VicWesr than its own surroundings. It's great on so many levels but this I agree is its flaw now. Perhaps in 95 it made sense since its surroundings were flee bag motels but now this needs a fix. It needs connection.In case you didn't see my blog post in the Online Media thread I thought I would link it here as well. Would love to hear some more opinions on this and more thoughts on how it could still be saved!
http://sidewalkingvictoria.blogspot.ca/2016/07/selkirk-waterfront-failure-of-perfect.html
I hadn't thought of that but you are right it definitely feels more connected to the Railyards than to even the townhouses across Gorge Road!
That's related to the issue of Gorge Road rising above the Selkirk property. To have built the Gateway office building and the seniors residences with street level component along Waterfront Crescent and Gorge Road would have required quite a bit more money with very little guarantee that there would have been any demand for street level retail there.
And then on the other side of Jutland along Gorge you have the Legion and 415 Gorge Rd E, neither of which are part of Selkirk. When/if those buildings are redeveloped that will provide an opportunity to engage the Gorge Road side of the block.
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