Well, they’re finally on the way. Some details:

• 240 units total. Units range from about 1,000 square feet to about 4,600 square feet. 17 different floor plans.
• Three stories of parking, rooftop pool, cabanas, rooftop dining, movie room, fitness area. Parking will be on the second and third floors, and in the basement of the east tower. Each unit will have two parking spaces.
• Most of the condos have 12-foot-high ceilings, but on floors seven and eight, the units will have 16-foot ceilings, and some will have skylights. Every unit has a bank of the large windows that dominate the building’s exterior and with interiors designed so that sunlight penetrates.
• The units will have roomy kitchens, spalike bathrooms and closets.
• “This is a big project. There’s nothing cheap about it,” says a representative from the company doing the condos.
• Nearly $23 million has already gone into renovations, but “considerably more” will be spent on the building.
• Condo prices will begin in the low $200,000s and go to around $700,000, depending on the size and location.
• “People are going to think they’ve walked into Shangri-La.”

Star-Telegram coverage is here. A teaser site with some awesome ’20s construction photos in the opening Flash animation is here.

My thoughts? Those who know me know that I have some issues with the development behind the old Montgomery Ward building, but I love what’s been done with the building itself. The condo project sounds really fantastic, and they seem to be cramming the building full of features and perks. The building’s huge windows are going to make for some amazing units, as are the tall ceilings. The parking setup looks to be well thought-out, too.

Between the residences at Montgomery Plaza, the residences and retail coming to South of 7th across the street, the apartments & condos going above the shops in the new Museum Place project, and whatever plans are in store for the old Acme Brick site and others, 7th Street looks to be in for a major urban development boom. It’ll be interesting to see how the various projects come together.