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FRÄNK

Client
Enrich Developments
Sector
Real Estate
Location
Vancouver, BC
Year
2025
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FRÄNK

Defining the market strategy before launch.

Overview
Project Details
Client
Enrich Developments
Industry
Real Estate — luxury concrete mid-rise
Market
Oak Street corridor, Vancouver Westside
Divisions
Strategy & Communications · Visualization & Content · Digital Platforms
Positioning
For Those Who Know
Year
2025
01 · Context

Enrich Developments brought Core Mantis in early during the development process for a luxury concrete mid-rise in Vancouver. The project entered a crowded Westside pre-sale market where differentiation would be difficult.

Positioning anchored by one idea: For Those Who Know.
02 · Complexity

Before branding or sales planning could begin, the project needed sharper buyer understanding, stronger product alignment, and a focused market direction.

Architectural intent, market demand, floorplan planning, amenity strategy, and buyer expectations had to be reconciled before anything moved to market.

Deliverables

Strategy & Communications

  • Development Strategy
  • Market Analysis
  • Buyer Profiling
  • Market Positioning
  • Floorplan & Amenity Review
  • Sales Program Recommendations
  • Brand Story Development
  • Community Narrative
  • Copywriting

Digital Platforms

  • UI/UX Development
  • Coding & Deployment
  • Presentation Centre Touchscreen
03 · Strategy

Market analysis across the Oak Street corridor assessed buyer demand, competition, and pricing. Insights informed unit mix recommendations aligned with both design intent and buyer expectations.

A floorplan and amenity review led to refinements that enhanced livability for design-conscious buyers. From there a positioning narrative emerged, rooted in architectural honesty, restraint, and design integrity.

For those who know.

The name FRÄNK was proposed to reflect the project's architectural honesty and confident tone.

04 · System

Strategy & Communications led research, positioning, naming, and the early-phase sales program.

Visualization & Content shaped the identity, collateral, presentation materials, and buyer experience as one continuous language.

05 · Execution

The name FRÄNK, a full identity and visual language, collateral, presentation materials, digital campaigns, launch sequencing, exclusivity strategy, and sales messaging — supporting a coordinated market rollout.

Rather than relying on conventional luxury language, the project embraced a more selective identity built around taste, contrast, restraint, and authenticity.

Digital

The website carried the same language off the page. UI/UX development, UI design, copywriting and deployment were delivered in-house, so the argument built in strategy survived to the screen.

A presentation centre touchscreen extended it to the sales floor: floor-by-floor selection, unit plates and availability, running on the same visual system.

thosewhoknowfrank.com — desktop.
FRÄNK — touchscreen.
06 · Outcome

A confident, differentiated positioning strategy that laid the groundwork for all subsequent branding, marketing, and sales.

FRÄNK emerged as a niche, design-forward statement in Vancouver's mid-rise landscape, with a structured go-to-market strategy and a seamless transition into campaign development.

Credits
  • Client — Enrich Developments
  • Development strategy — Core Mantis, Strategy & Communications
  • Identity & collateral — Core Mantis, Visualization & Content
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