PORTLAND: Apartment developers are starting to build in cycling infrastructure to attract boomer buyers and renters to downtown/C.B.D. projects.
Developers are pampering cyclists with upgraded change rooms and features such as hotel-style showers and exorbitantly priced hair straighteners. And owners of premium grade buildings are spending between $1.2 million and $2 million refurbishing their facilities.
New facilities have Hilton-inspired bathrooms with overhead and handheld showers and $2000 Dyson taps which both wash and dry.
Tenants can also straighten and dry their hair using GHD products and charge smartphone and tablets in a lockable charging station. Bike riders can ride through an entrance with neoflex flooring that are resistant to damage from bike seats, repair their bikes using an onsite repair kit and air-pump and dry their gear in the dehumidifying room…