Not sure if it was a rumour or confirmed but you'll be happy to have them move in. It'll compliment the grocery store across the street.

Not 100% until it gets closer to completion. We've had tenants like banks switch fairly far along.

Development permit is also up for 488 W 43rd Avenue (formerly 5910-5998 Cambie St) with an updated rendering

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/5910-5998-cambie-st-2

https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.co...JPG?1701112390

320 E 2nd is now getting a 20 storey rental tower with retail at grade and office on the 2nd floor.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=215727924

As long as construction starts after the lane across the street is re-opened. :cheers:

The bike lanes should be realigned by early 2025 I’m guessing.

Construction will be easily 2 years away.

Three Sixty

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_FF0XWa...pg&name=medium
Construction at Three Sixty continues to progress throughout the fall, with excavation well underway.
Shoring is active across the site, with crane installation scheduled for January 2024.
Explore floorplans & amenities & contact our Listing Team today: https://threesixtybystrand.com
https://twitter.com/Stranddev/status...37082887754120

Rezoning for the West Point Grey Safeway site is in.

-569 rental units, 114 being moderate income.
41k sqft commercial (37k of which being a grocery store)
-3.84 FSR

https://i.imgur.com/rvZj1u4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fGVG4xh.jpg
Images from MCMP Architects

The application

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/4545-w-10th-ave

The podium looks ugly especially the part fronting West 10th.

Please Vancouver, stop making the top two floors different than the rest of the building. Just continue the brick all the way up.

And 80% of residential will be designated unaffordable

Whoops. Someone mis-typed that descriptor! Quite the goof-up to write 20% designated as affordable as opposed to "below-market".

The desire to differentiate the 10th Ave facade only arises because the towers are squished to 10th Ave to avoid overshadowing the houses to the north. The colour blocking would be to avoid an overbearing streetwall.
The tower placement could also be to provide a large supermarket space in the podium, but one of the towers could have been moved to the north side or midblock away from 10th Ave.

In addition to the colour scheme, the NIMBYs also robbed Point Grey of a perfectly good terrace shape. The sooner the area gets dragged out of 1954, the better.

More info at
https://globalnews.ca/news/10150533/...anges-sources/

Vancouver Sun
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/col...ish-park-board
Dan Fumano: Vancouver is B.C.'s only city with an elected park board. Mayor Ken Sim wants to change that
"We spent a year and a bit trying to fix it, it's not working," said Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim. "We deserve world-class parks and recreational facilities, and so we need to change the structure."
Published Dec 06, 2023

View cone review and now potentially asking the province to abolish the parks board? Unpleasant times for lovers of bureaucracy.

I posted a Park Board situation update on the Civic Election thread, rather than here.

https://twitter.com/iamkennethchan/s...65875960349103

Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan
JUST IN... Mayor Ken Sim says the three ABC Park Board commissioners who are against abolition and not present at today's press conference have not been removed from the ABC party. #vanpoli
10:23 AM · Dec 6, 2023

Also all just talk right now until perhaps motion appears on next week's council agenda: https://council.vancouver.ca/2023121...20231212ag.htm. And even if that passes it is only asking the province to make a change.

Also, should be an interesting budget for 2024 now that Mayor Sim and ABC has had a year to get familiar with things. After the election and inauguration in November 2022 there really wasn't much of a chance to adjust the 2023 budget.

I still think this is the wrong thread for this discussion. ABC already proposed a draft budget yesterday - a 7.6% tax increase.