The honesty of the session, the rawness of the emotions, the vulnerability involved in the process, and the juxtaposition of those experiences with the cold and clinical way homes are built and sold today – more as an assortment of amenities packaged with superficial themes of nature, happiness etc. led to the creation of a powerful vision.
We've got a fantastic amenity package.
HIGH-RISES are also being built with a modest amenity package or none.
Nancy Candib, a senior vice president and managing director of Brown Harris Stevens, says one way to think about superintendents is as a part of a building's amenity package.
The project has been well received because of the amenity package that includes a private Equinox club, an outdoor movie theater and a dog run.
"So you get a really full amenity package, but you get the charm and the lifestyle of living in a smaller building," he said.
"Nobody else has the extensive amenity package" of Hamlet's Oyster Bay community, said Robert Wieboldt, executive vice president of the 600-member Long Island Builders Institute.
"It had a dishwasher!" Like many of the new developments in Jersey City, the Beacon has a generous amenity package with a dog run, an organic garden, a spa and a screening room.
But at Dockside Green, a 15-acre mixed-use development being built just north of this city's downtown harbor, neighborhood utilities are less a cause for alarm than part of the amenity package.
The tenants of the twin Archstone Clinton towers, at No. 510 on the south side of the street and No. 515 on the north, can take advantage of the $75-a-month 75-a-month 75-a-month amenity510, includes use of the enormous gym, the Wi-Fi-enabled residents' lounge, the screening room and the roof deck.
