The surprise path to downsizing in comfort while staying near the city

Downsizers have a chance at a group of limited inner-city apartments that let homeowners keep the space of a house.

Inner Brisbane downsizers are being offered the chance at luxury units right where their old homes were, without sacrificing space in their new apartments.

Developer Arden Group has announced Park House on Crosby: a complex made of 56 luxury residences, overlooking Crosby Park in Albion.

The residences are being designed for wealthy downsizers in the area, looking to have an easier apartment lifestyle without changing where they live.

Park House on Crosby in Albion: developed by Arden Group and designed by Cottee Parker.

Each unit in the building has been created with a large open-plan layout, designed by architects at Cottee Parker to feel more like a house than an apartment.

Cottee Parker principal and manager of interiors, Dee Passenger, said the development represented a rare opportunity for wealthier buyers in Brisbane’s increasingly competitive market.

“This is a pretty unique project, especially for its location,” she said. “Typically apartments aren’t very large in that sort of precinct. So what this developer has done is they’ve seen a gap in the market where people are downsizing but want to stay in the area that they were living, in a proper home.”

The design concept was to make luxury homes near the city that downsizers could enjoy, without sacrificing the size of a house.

The complex is designed to connect with several green spaces within and outside of the building, with several shared amenities for the residents.

Ms Passenger said the complex was built with a “biophilic” design: “where we bring plants and natural things into the facade of the building, into pots and plants that surround the perimeter, and bring that green landscape in.”

“Even though you’re in an apartment, you feel connected to nature,” she said.

Each unit in the development is said to offer oversized balconies with views of the city or the park, and 12 penthouse and luxe apartments are available as corner units at a higher elevation.

Residents will also share amenities such as an infinity pool, spa and gym, along with rooftop entertaining spaces and BBQs where they can get to know one another.

Details on sales are expected to come in July.

“These amenities and spaces are really a way of bringing that community together,” Ms Passenger said. “It’s a small boutique building. You’re not sharing it with [lots] of other people, so you’ve really got that village neighbourhood feel … everyone will get to know everyone.”

Prices begin at $2 million, according to their website, with further details to come in July.

Originally published as The surprise path to downsizing in comfort while staying near the city