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Originally Posted by Changing City
In the parcels covered by the lit up part of the model (So International Village and the Aquilini towers are included) so far there are 10,355. There are still seven vacant non-market sites still to be developed as well as the waterside area to the east of the Plaza of Nations, so buildout (on less land than the lagoons would have included) will probably be over 12,000. That's without the additional units by the Granville Bridge and on the Plaza of Nations sites, neither apparently contemplated for residential in the 1988 Hulbert design.
So far, including the arena, schools and community centre, there are 165,000 sq metres of non-residential space, with more to add on the east of Plaza land. That's not counting anything built on the BC Place site - so Parq isn't included. International Village is included as it's shown as part of the model, and was sold to Henderson (I think) after the Concord initial masterplan.
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Oops - that's what happens when a supposedly metric country still uses archaic measurements most of the time. Once the commercial space in the base of the remaining Concord buildings and the Plaza of Nations is built, it will still have a bit less than the total commercial density envisaged thirty years ago. Having said that, it doesn't seem remotely credible that 65 storey office towers would have been viable here (in this part of the city) in the past 25 years. It's even less likely that Concord would have been interested in developing an office component of that scale. And of course the Canucks would have been playing somewhere else, and none of the concerts in GM Place / Rogers Arena would have happened. (Or the riot when Axl Rose was a no-show).
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