What is being developed across from Cypress Village/ adjacent to WBE?

[changm55]

not sure about irvine, but it seems to me that in los angeles, if given a choice, once per sq/ft of land starts exceeding 360-375 usd's developers like to start building vertically rather than horizontally... the only counter action to this is city zoning which is the only thing prohibiting developers to do as they please... but with IP being so powerful in irvine, if they really wanted to change zoning densities, they probably could =_=;; sigh...

i think irvines getting there but not quite there yet... kind of like why that "urban" living they pushed around john wayne airport didnt do too well (think it was called central park west)... i remember the townhomes there were all 3 stories...

give it a few years and let $/sq ft appreciate a bit more and i think we will be seeing a lot more 3-4 story townhomes popping back out again...

CPW is at $435/sqft
http://www.talkirvine.com/index.php/topic,1356.msg45848.html#msg45848

http://www.lalife.com/

this is what i mean by the 360-375 magic number... i ignored the cheaper areas since we are looking for areas that have higher demand to compare with irvine...

lol 435 sq/ft... good areas of los angeles, SFR's are like 435 sq/ft while townhomes/condos at 340-360 sq/ft... maybe irvine thinks its special so it decides to go by the reverse pricing ratio where SFR's are arnd 340-360 sq/ft to townhome/condos at $435 sq/ft... damn... wow... lol... forget it... i dont even want to bother to try to figure out irvines pricing strategy... man... lol... wow...

 

[bella]

s,
Being a resident of newport (cdm), I agree about the land value but in terms of quality of life I am tired of the tourists, dumpster divers, the traffic on ECH, the "police state" presence of newport beach police officers ticketing us to death, and annoying summer renters, not to mention the lack of any good sushi/chinese/korean food. We are shopping for a home in Irvine (been lurking here for awhile - love all the posters' comments) and have been to Laguna Altura, Woodbury, Stonegate and soon Potty Springs. We currently have a "work out" house with 3 stories, and since my home office is on the third floor I get to run up>down>up>down all day long. Patterson construction, house is 3 yr old, we bought it new.  Tired of this area, it's very stressful and not luxe.  Won't miss it a bit. We are ready for the planned communities of Irvine living.

See... it is possible that people who actually live in Newport would choose to live in Irvine instead.

Great post, bella, and welcome to TalkIrvine.

thank you very much!