Central Park / West Metrotown
Residence at the Crystal
Residence at the Crystal is the seven-storey residential component at 6028 Willingdon Avenue within the larger Crystal mixed-use complex. The freehold LMS3990 strata registered in 1999 and contains 218 homes across the combined 6028 and 6088 residential addresses, with concrete construction, shared recreation facilities and underground parking close to Metrotown Station.
Building snapshot
- Address
- 6028 Willingdon Avenue
- Completion year
- 1999
- Developer
- Unknown / Needs Verification
- Builder
- Unknown / Needs Verification
- Building type
- Seven-storey concrete mid-rise component of the Crystal mixed-use complex
- Height
- 7 storeys
- Unit count
- 218
- Construction
- Concrete mid-rise residential component integrated with a broad mixed-use podium and shared underground parkade
- Tenure
- Freehold strata, Strata Plan LMS3990
- Near station
- Metrotown and Patterson stations
- Parking
- Residential parking is within the complex's shared four-level underground parkade; verify the exact stall, access route and limited-common-property rights for each home
- Storage
- Storage is reported for some homes; verify the exact locker assignment and legal entitlement in the current strata documents
- Micro-location
- Central Park / West Metrotown
What this building is known for
The 6028 address offers lower-rise living inside one of Metrotown's most recognizable mixed-use complexes, with retail, food, hotel and transit convenience balanced by unusually important shared-cost, parking and easement review.
Buyer due-diligence checklist
Use these building-specific prompts to structure your document review and professional inspections. They identify questions to investigate, not conclusions about condition.
Construction and major systems
Review the current depreciation report and strata minutes for elevators, parkade systems, windows or glazing, plumbing, mechanical equipment, exterior maintenance and insurance. Confirm completed projects and future funding requirements.
Age and capital planning
As a 1999 building, the condition and renewal history of original or replaced systems matters more than age alone. Review completed and planned work involving piping, elevators, roofs, envelope, parkade and mechanical systems.
Parking, storage and ownership details
The profile identifies the tenure as Freehold strata, Strata Plan LMS3990. Review how residential and commercial components share expenses, insurance, access, parking and decision-making. General parking information is available, but the legal stall designation, use rights and any allocation to a specific home must be confirmed. General storage information is available, but the locker designation and use rights must be confirmed.
Location and future change
Residence at the Crystal is grouped within Central Park / West Metrotown, with Metrotown and Patterson stations providing the relevant transit context. Test the actual walking route at the times you expect to travel, and review nearby active or proposed development for potential changes to noise, access, outlook and construction activity.
Explore this part of Metrotown
Central Park & Patterson
Park-oriented and residential, with a mix of established towers and newer development between Patterson Station and central Metrotown.
What this building is like
Residence at the Crystal sits in a west-side, park-leaning edge of the district and currently profiles as an earlier Metrotown-era tower completed in 1999 with station access is still part of the value story, though this is more edge-of-core than front-door transit around Patterson Station. Part of the broader Crystal complex; public sources sometimes describe the whole complex and sometimes the lower-rise component separately.
In practical terms, this building leans toward downsizers, families and investors. That does not mean other buyer types should ignore it; it means the building’s location profile, scale, age band, and amenity story line up most naturally with those audiences in the current building profile.
Design, amenities, and identity
Public-facing materials position Residence at the Crystal as complex-component / address-sensitive record.
Location context
This side of Metrotown leans more toward Central Park and the Patterson side of the district, which often feels greener and less compressed than the main station core. For this record, the primary transit anchor is Patterson Station, with the current proxy distance band reading as 250-800m.
The upside is a softer park-edge feel; the trade-off is that some errands and major retail trips are a bit less frictionless than the station-core towers. In buyer terms, the location story is usually about park adjacency.
Similar and nearby buildings
Continue with buildings that share this area, station context, building type or a similar completion period.
- Presidia · Central Park / West Metrotown
- Aldynne on the Park · Central Park / West Metrotown
- Balmoral on the Park · Central Park / West Metrotown
- Carlton on the Park · Central Park / West Metrotown
Common buyer questions
What kind of building is this?
Residence at the Crystal is currently recorded as concrete condo / apartment with 7 storeys and 218 homes/units.
When was Residence at the Crystal completed?
The current record points to a 1999 completion. Buyers should still confirm the exact occupancy / completion timing in strata and title documents when the date matters for warranties or age-sensitive comparisons.
Who built or designed Residence at the Crystal?
The developer and design team are not yet fully normalized in the public-source layer for this record, so the page keeps those fields flagged until cleaner confirmation is attached.
Is Residence at the Crystal close to SkyTrain?
The current location model ties this building primarily to Patterson Station, with a proxy distance band of 250-800m. This is useful for comparison, but not a substitute for an exact measured walk time.
What amenities stand out at Residence at the Crystal?
Amenity detail is still light in the current public-source layer, so this page does not overstate the amenity package.
Are pets or rentals allowed at Residence at the Crystal?
Public-source references point to pets: Yes and rentals: Yes. Treat that as a starting point only, and confirm the current bylaws and any amendments in the strata package.