Smith
Smith stands on 6 Street SW in the Beltline, an 18-storey residential tower that Grosvenor completed in December 2016. The homes run from studios up to three bedrooms. A public plaza sits at the base, extending the green space of the district rather than closing the block off, which is the part of the project that gives something back to the street.
Smith carries a concierge at the front desk, package storage, a dry-cleaning drop-off service, car detailing, and a key service. A bike and tool share program runs from the building, and an owners’ lounge is held for entertaining. Parking is titled and underground, with heated stalls and visitor parking beside them. Each home carries a titled storage locker, and secure bike storage is provided.
Smith and Drake
Smith has a sibling. Grosvenor built Drake in the same district and counts the two together as more than 250 homes delivered downtown. Drake was designed by BKDI Architects, the practice Grosvenor names on its own record, so the two Grosvenor buildings sit inside the same short lineage of Beltline residential architecture as Stella, Nova, Luna, and Mark on 10th.
What sits around it
Sixth Street runs through the Connaught side of the Beltline, the older of the two communities merged into the district in 2003, established in 1905. Seventeenth Avenue SW is a short walk south, the retail and entertainment strip that took the Red Mile name during the 2004 Flames run.
Central Memorial Park is east, 4.68 acres laid out in 1889 and carrying the Memorial Park Library of January 1912 at its east end, together a National Historic Site of Canada since January 2018. Haultain Park is further east. The 7 Avenue corridor is north, where 6 Street SW and 7 Street SW stations have carried both CTrain lines since 1981.
We wrote about the community around it. Living in Beltline.
