The Beasley | 91m | 33 fl | Completed

[mr.x]

http://66.90.101.237/beasley.jpg
Website: http://www.thebeasley.com/

The Beasley at Yaletown

Height: 300-feet/91-metres
Floors: 33
Suites: 211 units
Floor Space Ratio: 7.22
Parking: 337 spaces

Construction start: September 2008
Construction end: February 2011

Developer: Amacon



http://www.lestwarog.com/admin/uploads/article/moreimages/3443.jpg



Other details:
- Project also has a heritage building on the site "The Homer" built in 1913 (Location of the Homer Cafe). This will be transformed to a high end lounge and restaurant.
- The building is named for former Vancouver City Planner Larry Beasley.
- The project will be mixed use including the lounge & restaurant, four other commercial units on the ground floor of the Beasley Tower, and two floors for office space.
- The ground floor of the tower will have 3 elevators, a fully equipped gym, party room with a pool table, kitchen & dining room & a garden terrace. Also on the 8th floor, there will be a 2000 sq.ft. terrace dedicated to dogs physical fitness.


The site, which includes a heritage building:
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http://www.lestwarog.com/399smithe/images/6.jpg
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So much history in Beasley highrise

Mike Sasges, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2008

VANCOUVER - Residency in a Beasley apartment or townhouse is an opportunity to participate in the memorialization of two Vancouver histories, one earlier, one later, one foundational, one transformative.

The retention of a building that has stood on the Beasley site for 95 years will commemorate the inaugural Yaletown, that Yaletown of warehouses and factories and rooming houses and greasy spoons created in the opening decades of the previous century.

The addition of a tower of glass to the site will commemorate the transformation of the warehouse neighbourhood into a residential neighbourhood that began in the closing decades of the previous century.

Consideration of the public purpose of Beasley residency is inevitable, given the project's "birth order" and name.

Larry Beasley was, until recently, co-director of planning at city hall. In that role, he organized and managed the city hall contribution to the insertion of homes into the old business districts downtown.

"He was a visionary who helped make the city what it is today," Amacon executive Richard Wittstock says. "As residents and business people in the vital urban core, we [at Amacon] felt that it was appropriate to say a collective 'thank you' for this.

"As Larry will be first to mention, the building is a tribute not just to Larry, but to all the visionary planning staff at city hall who work hard, but receive no recognition and share an equal partnership role with developers and architects in making a neighbourhood successful."

There should be no doubt that The Beasley will be either the last tower of glass homes or one of the last erected in Yaletown.

"The Beasley site is an extremely rare opportunity for buyers to get into the Yaletown market," Wittstock says. "This is the last remaining true Yaletown highrise site giving buyers the possibility of a Homer Street address. Supply gets tighter every year downtown as fewer and fewer sites become available for development."

The market response signals agreement: two-thirds of the homes were sold last weekend, the first weekend of selling. Buyers, by law, have a week to rescind.

In commemorating Larry Beasley's leadership contribution to "the evolution of downtown over the past 20 years," Wittstock says, all involved in the project wanted it to manifest his spirit, those "key principles that Larry advanced in his tenure."

Accordingly . . .

- The Beasley is a high-density-residency addition to Vancouver.

- It is a mixed-use addition.

- As an addition, it does not subtract, as completely, or as irrevocably, as it might. It does not exclude, as completely as it might. And it does not impose, as completely as it might. The project preserves a heritage building. It creates new rental accommodation downtown, built by the developer.

And, lastly, it lessens its consequences on the environment.

"A passive green roof to mitigate stormwater runoff and microclimatic effects" makes it a sustainable addition to the built environment.

An extraordinary number of floorplans, 26, and the insertion of 15 new homes for rent in the heritage building demonstrate respect for the inclusion principle. Both city hall and Amacon expect children will be among future Beasley residents.

"We know that more and more children are living downtown, as evidenced by what we see every day from our office and the waiting lists for daycare spaces and the Elsie Roy elementary school," Wittstock says.

"We fully anticipate that we may have a number of families with young children in The Beasley, and have designed our floorplans to be as flexible as possible to accommodate growing families.''

The Beasley asking prices are the latest contribution to the affordability debate in Lower Mainland. Absolutely high, but relatively low.

''The homes are attractively priced relative to today's market, starting well under $800 per square foot,'' Wittstock says.

''This compares favourably to the most recent offerings in the downtown market and on the Westside. The Beasley represents exceptional value in comparison with southeast False Creek or anything else available downtown today.''

The heritage component of the project, the Homer Building, is one of eight reminders of old Yaletown in the vicinity of the Beasley project.

City hall staff consider it ''a fine example of an early 20th century Edwardian-style, three-storey apartment block'' built ''to provide modest self-contained, single-room rental accommodation for single people or couples who would have worked in the downtown or [the Yaletown] warehouse district . . . ."

The retention and refurbishment of the Homer Building gained Amacon more than 80,000 square feet of ''bonus'' density that it can either use on site or sell to another developer. It is using its 80,000 square feet on site.

The heritage component is equally a bonus for the city, or the public realm, and future Beasley households.

''The retention of the Homer Building provides a very attractive link to Yaletown's past and serves as an anchor for the development,'' Wittstock says.

''Architecturally, it provides a counterpoint for the modern architecture of The Beasley.''

If there is a developer with the ability to mix office, retail and residential purposes in one building, it is Amacon: Its Melville project in Coal Harbour was voted best mixed-use project in a biannual industry competition.

The judges were all members of the local development fraternity, industry and government.

The organizer of the competition is the local chapter of the Urban Development Institute.

Says Wittstock of the influence of The Melville on The Beasley: ''In designing The Melville, we saw how the various parts can be integrated seamlessly both along the streetscape and within the structure itself to provide great urban design.

''These lessons have been applied in a similar fashion at The Beasley.''

On his watch, planner Beasley was famous for asking developers and builders to bring him architecture that demonstrated a ''dash of fun,'' as one Beasley news release says.

At The Beasley, that ''dash'' will be memorialized by a dog run on the eighth floor, a Vancouver first.

''The incorporation of the dog run speaks to the livability of Yaletown, that it can offer all the great attributes of livability that in the past drew people out to the suburbs,'' Wittstock says.

[officedweller]

''The homes are attractively priced relative to today's market, starting well under $800 per square foot,'' Wittstock says.

Ouch.

[Yume-sama]

$800 is a bargain compared to the $1200+ that some at Capitol are re-selling for already.

[Hed Kandi]

Wow, I love how they're gonna restore that heritage building! :)

[eduardo88]

Wow, I love how they're gonna restore that heritage building! :)

Honestly 90% of vancouver's "heritage" buildings are a complete waste of space...they are nothing special architecturaly nor hold any historical significance at all, i know peronally know that from living in a historically designated house in shaughnessy a couple years back before moving out of vancouver...

[nathan6969]

^^I gotta agree that a lot the buildings we're saving are really just shit, the one that really pisses me off is the ycma with patina, why save some old brick wall of no significance...but the thing is vancouver doesn't have that much great historical stock...and we might as well save what interesting stuff we have left...

[raggedy13]

^Ya, we can use all the architectural diversity we can get.

I still like a lot of Vancouver's older buildings though. Of course they hardly compare to European historic building stock or even that of older NA cities, but there are some real gems among them and to me Vancouver wouldn't be the same without them.

I think as the DTES gets cleaned up over the coming years people will see that there is an attractive and charming stock of old buildings in this city and people will really be drawn to the DTES for this reason (at least once the neighbourhood is a little more mainstream - like in 10-20 years?)

[dreambrother808]

if the things we built now were of greater quality and vision then i wouldn't feel so bad about losing what few heritage buildings we have.

[officedweller]

There was a pic of the model in Saturday's Vancouver Sun - there is a setback above the office podium - it looks much better in that model pic than in the rendering. It also looked pretty wide in the pic.

[Delirium]

was it this one?

http://www.lestwarog.com/admin/uploads/article/moreimages/3443.jpg

[Yume-sama]

Ooooh, that model is very nice. It's like a night and day difference between that and the render...

[dreambrother808]

The muted beige/grey in the brick?concrete? of the model complements the heritage building much better than the orange of the render. The city does need more colour, but such decisions should be made in careful relation to the surroundings. This is not to say that colour choices cannot be daring or bold, just that they should not clash in an artless way.

[officedweller]

Yeah, that's it - Thanks for posting!

Not sure about the townhouses behind the Homer (along Smithe) though - they look tacked on.

[cityguy]

I like it,it looks a little un-Vancouver.

[Jacques]

Yeah, that's it - Thanks for posting!

Not sure about the townhouses behind the Homer (along Smithe) though - they look tacked on.

The townhouses front entrance face the inner court, so as to reduce the noise traffic from Smithe, as per the review detailed in the week-end Vancouver Sun newspaper.

[jo67sh]

i wonder how the beasley is selling?

all this talk of bubble bursting having any effect on the marketing of this project?

i think the presentation centre is in the wrong neighborhood.

then again , its easy to be the monday morning quarterback.

[officedweller]

The townhouses front entrance face the inner court, so as to reduce the noise traffic from Smithe, as per the review detailed in the week-end Vancouver Sun newspaper.

I just meant wrt the interface - there's a step down on the Homer side to the podium, but not on the Smithe side. Plus what looks like (not sure) a change in materials from glass to brick where they meet.

***

Where is that display centre, next to the Penthouse?

[osirisboy]

heres a couple of pics showing the demolition beginning on the site.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1953.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1954.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1955.jpg

[excel]

cool demo pics.

[Cypherus]

Neat pictures. Thanks osiris.

[osirisboy]

heres a couple more demo pics I took form thursday. with the site cleared of the houses hopefully excavation can start soon.

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4364.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4374.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4375.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4378.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4381.jpg

[entheosfog]

Wow, nice series of pics! You captured that demo nicely!

[vanman]

Cool shots. You literally have a bird's eye view!

[danby]

very awesome!! you do have a wicked view of it all

[osirisboy]

^^thanks, luckily i only have a few windows look out onto the site so it wont block a lot of my view. but it sure is screwing my neighbors over :)

[excel]

cool series of demo pics.

[officedweller]

From the GBL Architects website:

Beasley:

http://www.gbl-arch.com/database/img_48404a75de63b.jpg?1212172917

[osirisboy]

small update. the homer street cafe has finally closed its doors for good. Also, I heard from the sales people that excavation will start this month.

[officedweller]

Too bad - that was a great place for breakfast.

[osirisboy]

small update: This project is 70% sold but rate of sales have reduced lately. They have begun preparing the Homer building and excavation of the site is set to begin mid-November. source was someone from the sales centre.

[hollywoodnorth]

good news :)

[osirisboy]

small update again: back hoe is now on site and the parking lot is fenced off.

[hollywoodnorth]

any updates? backhoe still hoeing away?

[osirisboy]

no thats long gone. it was only there for a few days and they took out a couple of big trucks of dirt but that was it.

Now they say April start date but I doubt it.

[hollywoodnorth]

damn I hope this one does not die on the operating table.....

[osirisboy]

well the other day a truck came and delivered whole bunch of jersey barriers probably will be used to barricade the parking lot, If they felt that the project was going to be canceled they wouldnt have delivered them. So i'll take that as good news for now.

[Locked In]

The Beasley project in downtown Vancouver offers discount to buyers

Vancouver Sun - March 17, 2009 11:44 AM

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.vancouversun.com/beasley+project+downtown+vancouver+offers+discount+buyers/1398690/1398691.bin

An artist's rendering of the Beasley, at the northeast corner of Homer and Smithe in downtown Vancouver. Prices are being cut by a minimum of 22 per cent because of reduced construction costs.
Photograph by: Vancouver Sun files, .


Amacon, the Vancouver developer building The Beasley project downtown, is the latest builder offering discounts to buyers.

Amacon senior vice-president Bob Cabral said the company is cutting prices by a minimum of 22 per cent, from $100,000 to over $250,000 per unit, because of reduced construction costs.

"We are in a very different market than a year ago; when we negotiated our construction costs and realized the savings we made, we were happy to pass on that savings," Cabral said.

Cabral added that Amacon views this sale as a unique case that won't necessarily influence the overall market.

Cameron McNeil, president of MAC Marketing Solutions, which is handling the sales of Amacom's remaining units in the Beasley, said there are too few apartments left and such limited supply of units in development he doesn't believe the reductions will set any new benchmarks for downtown pricing.

© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun


Source: Vancouver Sun (http://www.vancouversun.com/Beasley+project+downtown+Vancouver+offers+discount+buyers/1398690/story.html)

[djh]

Don't you wonder, though, if they are offering those discounts to those people who have already signed a fixed-price contract with them? They say they are "pleased to pass the discount on" since everything is costing them less, but I'll bet you a dollar they are not telling that story to those who signed contracts.

[SpongeG]

plus they must have made some interest off the down payments already

[Stingray2004]

Don't you wonder, though, if they are offering those discounts to those people who have already signed a fixed-price contract with them?

Surprise, surprise... yes Amacon is also offering the same discount to existing pre-purchasers, lowering their respective fixed-prices.

[jlousa]

Cheapest advertising ever, I'll give it to the Omni/Amacon family they know how to take advantage of the media. :tup:

Beasley was very overpriced to begin with and probably most of those existing purchasers were insiders as it didn't sell well to the public. Lower the prices now by a sizeable amount and get tons of free publicity which will help offload the rest of the inventory. Just like Omni did last month. ;)

Kudos, and we'll get to see another tower go up now.

[officedweller]

Surprise, surprise... yes Amacon is also offering the same discount to existing pre-purchasers, lowering their respective fixed-prices.

The news said that they are in a position to flow through lower costs on their materials and labour - so they just happen to be at the preconstruction stage where they hadn't locked into high proced contracts.

One buyer on TV (a radio DJ) bought 2 units for his kids - $500K each and is saving $180K and $170K on them - $350K total. How much do you want to bet those are one bedroom or one with den suites?

[Locked In]

The news said that they are in a position to flow through lower costs on their materials and labour - so they just happen to be at the preconstruction stage where they hadn't locked into high proced contracts.

One buyer on TV (a radio DJ) bought 2 units for his kids - $500K each and is saving $180K and $170K on them - $350K total. How much do you want to bet those are one bedroom or one with den suites?

The updated article has a bit more information regarding the decision to reduce prices, and the starting price for each type of unit:



Somerville said calculating how much risk the company would face from The Beasley’s buyers walking away from contracts if they didn’t reduce prices likely factored into Amacon’s decision.

Somerville said a developer’s choices are to take buyers to court to enforce the contracts they originally signed. However, even if the company wins those lawsuits, it still will be dealing with angry customers.

Developers, he added, also do not want to end up holding large numbers of unsold units.

Faced with the alternatives, Amacon has decided “the smart business decision” is to reduce prices, Somerville said.

Other developers in Metro Vancouver also have discounted their prices.

The Onni Group of Companies, which is suing 44 pre-sale buyers for walking away from units in a handful of projects, attracted headlines in January for its so-called liquidation sale of some 375 completed units at prices 25 per cent to 40 per cent off original contract prices.

Earlier this month, Morningstar Homes Ltd. said it was able to cut $100,000 off the construction costs of its new single-family homes, which it would pass directly to buyers.

New pricing at The Beasley will put studio apartments as low as $219,000, one-bedroom units as low as $305,000 and start two-bedroom suites as low as $435,000.


Source: Vancouver Sun (http://www.vancouversun.com/Business/Vancouver+condo+price+drop+leads+lawsuits+discounts/1398690/story.html)

[sacrifice333]

New pricing at The Beasley will put studio apartments as low as $219,000, one-bedroom units as low as $305,000 and start two-bedroom suites as low as $435,000.

Those new prices are becoming fairly attractive. For anyone not in the downsizing phase of life there are starting to be some great opportunities. :banana:

[Yume-sama]

Cheapest advertising ever, I'll give it to the Omni/Amacon family they know how to take advantage of the media. :tup:

Beasley was very overpriced to begin with and probably most of those existing purchasers were insiders as it didn't sell well to the public. Lower the prices now by a sizeable amount and get tons of free publicity which will help offload the rest of the inventory. Just like Omni did last month. ;)

Kudos, and we'll get to see another tower go up now.

I agree. I went to see it, but while the suites were "nice" I did think the prices were a bit too high for what they were offering. The building isn't even air conditioned, and frankly, if they are going to try to sell for a bit of a premium that is the least they could do. The design isn't all that great either, it pretty much looks like a carbon copy of L'Hermitage (not that L'Hermitage is badly designed, just... couldn't they think of their own :P)

[officedweller]

The architects for The Beasley is the same as for L'Hermitage - and the design was originally a glass tower with a retro cube at the base. But the City that didn't like the design - so we end up with a L'Hermitage clone.

[flight_from_kamakura]

it's a testament to how nimble these guys are that they could move this quickly and this decisively to keep this project moving forward. contrast with something like the absurd 999 seymour project. (and while i watch the second tower of dolce vita come up, i repress this sinking feeling that the georgia residences will come to an inglorious, half-constructed end)

[johnjimbc]

I do think they've been quite good at getting ahead of the game. I thought the sales of the final H&H residences were quite smart as well.

What do you mean by the georgia residences? (which project - or projects)

[Kodii]

:previous: The Residences at Hotel Georgia

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138024

[johnjimbc]

Oh, I feel sort of silly. For some reason I didn't make the association.

I certainly hope it doesn't stop half-way, though I have to admit I've found myself wondering if they might not just complete the renovation of the existing heritage structure, re-open that part as a hotel, and hold off on the tower itself.

BIG CAVEAT: That's just a random thought I had looking at the site one day. It is not based on any direct knowledge I have about the project so please don't run with the idea because I typed it here ;)

[osirisboy]

I'm pretty sure excavation has now started. There is a back hoe some trucks on site and they are jack hammering. But we'll see, if it turns out to actually be excavation I'll post some pics.

[hollywoodnorth]

Good Stuff :)

[hollywoodnorth]

I'm pretty sure excavation has now started. There is a back hoe some trucks on site and they are jack hammering. But we'll see, if it turns out to actually be excavation I'll post some pics.

any updates?

should there be a thread title change? :cheers:

[osirisboy]

sorry no. Unfortunately I was mistaken. It turned out they were just working on sewer stuff in the laneway during the morning.

[hollywoodnorth]

anything yet? apparently the project is now SOLD OUT.......

[Yume-sama]

Sold out, eh? I'm kind of surprised about that.

[Vancity]

so the project is now sold out??

[mcminsen]

Today (Tuesday June 30) I noticed that the parking lot adjacent to the old "Homer" apartment block has been closed and fenced off. Something's up.

[osirisboy]

thats weird I doubt it has anything to do with construction. last i heard they werent going to start until october.

maybe its for canada day stuff. or it was a bunch of drunks that decided to move the fence over night.

[hollywoodnorth]

well for a "sold out" project they sure are taking their sweet time ;)

[mcminsen]

The Beasley excavation has begun. Lots of big equipment on site digging and scraping and piling.

[hollywoodnorth]

cool stuff!

[Locked In]

Modest progress:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sl66Eqjl81I/AAAAAAAAA4o/9Y35cZAXRaE/s800/IMG_9593.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sl66FaBtBCI/AAAAAAAAA4w/cHrWyCuey6k/s800/IMG_9595.JPG
(my photos)

[Yume-sama]

Good to see it actually moving.

Even if it is a cheap L'Hermitage clone :P

[hollywoodnorth]

Go Go Gadget!

[mcminsen]

The excavation is well along now. Sorry I can't provide a pic. It won't be long before the little old Homer Apt. block will be perched on the edge of an L shaped pit.

[wrenegade]

These guys still haven't finalized their financing, they are close, but not there yet. That's why it took so long for the "sold out" project to break ground.

[osirisboy]

here are some pics I took today

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4225.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4224.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4223.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4222.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4221.jpg

[officedweller]

Thanks!

[mcminsen]

Excellent shots! Great vantage point. Thank you.

[SFUVancouver]

Thanks for the update!

[Hed Kandi]

Wow, this one is moving right along!

[osirisboy]

yea they are really moving fast on the excavation. its hard to tell from the pics but the whole is fairly deep

[entheosfog]

The pit is getting a little deep but I was mostly just interested in the heritage building and its newly exposed foundation:
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/46/img1580hdn.jpg

The menu is still up inside and lots of the old cafe is still intact:
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5750/img1582q.jpg

[osirisboy]

im bored again this morning so i thought i would take a few pics again of the site. they are really moving fast on this hole!!

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4313.jpg


http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4314.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4315.jpg

[SFUVancouver]

Thanks for the update.

I don't think we have ever had someone so well positioned to follow a new project. Please keep `em coming.

[officedweller]

Nice! Thanks.

[wrenegade]

status change for the thread title?

[LeftCoaster]

Well not until we see some foundations, which looks to be a few months off at best.

[osirisboy]

update from today (pics by me)

the worker guy in the hole can help give you an idea of how deep it is so far

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4316.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4317.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4318.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4319.jpg

[SFUVancouver]

The Beasley | September 24th ‘09

This is a “two-for” of The Beasley’s pit and Atelier.
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8949/beaselypitandateliersep.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) Taken by SFUVancouver, September 24th, 2009

[osirisboy]

update by me today:

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4436.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4437.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4438.jpg

[vanman]

Ha that first pic reminded me of this in China:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/island-home.jpg

[mr.x]

^ whaaaatttt???/ lol, how old is that?

[vanman]

I think it was knocked down finally in 2007.

In Chongqing, central China, a land dispute has created an unusual island home. Apparently the homeowners have won the battle against the developers and are 'well connected' and will not be forced to accept the compensation offered. We'd love to see this same photo after work is completed.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.charlesandhudson.com/island-home.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.charlesandhudson.com/archives/2007/03/island_home.htm&usg=__pjdwehsq3Azhz8fOSa_CC_qqfTA=&h=323&w=450&sz=39&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=m7ccR0wJRAKO-M:&tbnh=91&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dland%2Bbattle%2Bchina%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

[Jacques]

you might like this also:
Influence by the Chongqing house, the article is fascinating
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2007/04/nailing-nail-houses-south-china-morning-post/

http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/222621.php

[mcminsen]

My pic Nov. 13, '09
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/938/dsc00666q.jpg
The little old Homer Apartment block perches on the edge of the Beasley pit. It's been slow going for a while as they've had to blast through some bedrock.

[osirisboy]

They have now reached the bottom of the hole (at least for half the site) and are now installing some scaffolding for stairs.

[osirisboy]

they have installed the foundation for the crane

[mcminsen]

The Beasley pit looking at the S.E. corner, where the crane will be installed. Can you see the little guy in the yellow jacket?

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7858/dsc00738t.jpg
My pic. Nov. 26 '09

[osirisboy]

They are pouring the concrete for the foundation right now. there is a big concrete pump truck on smithe.

I guess we can change this to U/C now

[hollywoodnorth]

They are pouring the concrete for the foundation right now. there is a big concrete pump truck on smithe.

I guess we can change this to U/C now

actually the rules clearly state that a CRANE must be one site for the title to be changed......people these days I tell ya ;)

I kid btw :cheers: :cheers:

[mcminsen]

The Beasley crane being installed today (Sat. Dec. 5 '09). The view from my window looking south down Homer Street. Crane going in on the left. The intersection just beyond the blue crane is Homer and Smythe.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7059/dsc00886oa.jpg
My pic. Dec. 5 '09

[Locked In]

Crane Installation. My photos, taken today:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sxr-AHOKddI/AAAAAAAABhU/LTIJOy4Gugo/s800/IMG_2847.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sxr-BUcmu_I/AAAAAAAABhY/OKxpal5v7p4/s800/IMG_2848.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sxr-C1OAXuI/AAAAAAAABhg/fCOJ1tTjRW4/s800/IMG_2850.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sxr-DwZcjRI/AAAAAAAABhk/RTb9EDn5qXM/s800/IMG_2851.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sxr-EwIovWI/AAAAAAAABho/8_848aTN-CI/s800/IMG_2853.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/Sxr-GDyz8ZI/AAAAAAAABhs/bq7Z8RpU8Eg/s800/IMG_2855.jpg

[osirisboy]

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_4589.jpg

pic by me

[mcminsen]

Still digging. In fact, I've even heard them blasting just in the past few days. This pic is from the sidewalk along Smythe St. looking N.E. towards the library. Old Homer Block on the left.

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4062/dsc00501g.jpg
Jan.21 '10 my pic

[Locked In]

My photos (January 23):

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S1tY-SYEBeI/AAAAAAAACWA/gNl0aqssxA8/s800/IMG_1062.JPG

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S1tYaFOkDBI/AAAAAAAACVw/78SXE-lvWOw/s800/IMG_1063.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9FW9P3-u1EI/S1tYbkb4RGI/AAAAAAAACV0/TNbA42lk6e4/s800/IMG_1065.JPG

[mcminsen]

Something going on at the Beasley this morning. I presume it's the excavators being lifted out of the bottom of the pit.

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4913/dsc00613ln.jpg
Jan.27 '10 my pic

[officedweller]

Thanks - saw the trucks this morning and was wondering what was going on.

[Hed Kandi]

New photos from look@round at SSC

The Beasley, in Yaletown, yesterday:

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/1628/img8416w.jpg (http://img709.imageshack.us/i/img8416w.jpg/)

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/913/img8415n.jpg (http://img341.imageshack.us/i/img8415n.jpg/)