VCC Broadway Campus Redevelopment
 

Vancouver Community College Broadway Campus Expansion

http://www.vcc.ca/expansion/

VCC's Broadway campus is expanding. The campus currently serves more than 4,200 students in a facility planned for 1,800. Construction began in October 2006 with the move-in date scheduled for September 2009.


The Broadway campus Phase 1 expansion will have the following impact:

- programs and an additional 219 student FTEs in university transfer programs.

- Provide added instructional space to relieve the over-utilization of classroom and lab stations at Broadway, moving from the current level of 1,540 annual student contact hours per student station (ASCH/STST) to 1,284 ASCH/STST.

- Following the completion of the Phase 1 expansion, the library will be renovated and expanded by 50 percent and the cafeteria by 33 percent.

- The relocation of health programs from the downtown campus to Broadway campus will provide space to allow for expansion of the dental and hospitality programs by 111 and 172 FTEs each.

- These changes will provide facilities necessary to help the college meet the targets of its 10-year academic plan, which projects a 21.3 percent increase in student FTEs, from 7,209 in 2003/04 to 8,744 FTEs in 2013/14.


Size: 124,550 ft² (11,571 meters²)
Location: Glen Drive and 7th Avenue
Budget:
$54.9 million - Project
$45.5 million - Construction
$5.6 million - Planning and Design
$2.0 million - Fees, Insurance, GST, other
$1.8 million - Furniture and equipment

Department/Service Area FT²
Aboriginal Education & Services 700
Bookstore & Coffee Bar 4,069
Continuing Studies 258
Facilities 1,679
Faculty Association Office & Lounge 431
Faculty and Department Offices 10,893
Health Services 1,012
Medical Laboratory Assistant 506
Nursing & Continuing Care 23,896
Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapist 6,157
Pharmacy Technician 3,240
Public Areas/Student Study 9,870
Shared Classroom & Labs 36,813
Student Association 2.045
Wet Lab/Support - Lockers 1,776

Architect: Stantec Architecture
Construction start: 2006
Construction finish: 2009



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Webcam (image refreshes every 30 minutes between 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Monday - Friday ) - VCC's School of Health Sciences building under construction
http://www.camcentral.net/directurl/...86_VCCHome.jpg

nice.

Photo by myself Dec 7th. There are two more floors to be added. The design is not bad.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4...ion6131fg9.jpg

Lots of new schools being built: VCC expansion, SFU expansion, BCIT Aerospace just finished. Any others?

^ the new green library at Langara.

It's a good place to invest the public's money when times are good. These aren't vanity projects either, if you follow my drift, but honest bricks and mortar additions to these institutions. The only project on the horizon that strays from the realm of conventional bricks and mortar academic buildings is CIRS - UBC's Centre for Interactive Research in Sustainability. I made a thread about it (link).

I like the VCC building. It has been interesting to see it rise. It definately has that academic institutional look but "that look" is so much better today than it has been in the past.

^ will they ever demolish or renovate the existing VCC building facing Broadway?

taken by SFU Vancouver:


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http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png taken March 27th, 2008.

^ That building looks close to the Skytrain station.

I hope they actually built over the parking lot that separated it from VCC-Clark Stn. It seemed unjustified that the drivers would get a closer walk to campus than the train commuters, not to mention positioning the station far away from Broadway, where it could have been of more use to a lot more people.

Here's an update from March 8th, not as recent as the one posted above, but from a different angle.
The next phase is supposed to be a similar building built on the existing parking lot.
http://www.pbase.com/joecanada/image...6/original.jpg
credit: my photo

just to clarify, the next phase is to be built to the east of this building (where the construction trailers are presently located)

there are master plans which shows more buildings on the parking lot to the north but whether those will ever proceed.....

Update June 15-08
 

VCC construction, update June 15-08

thanks dude for the pic. really really liking this (not as much as i like gregor, but yeah, pretty close *wink*)

May 2, 2009
 

The VCC building was completed this year, and I just happened to have pictures. :cool:






(all photos by me)

^ looks nice, though i had an impression it would be bigger than that.

nice lookin building. i would love to see that parking lot beside disappear soon.

does anyone have thee master plans and can post them on here?

1111 E 7th Ave
 

8 storey, 310,000sqft building for the NW corner of the campus where the surface lot currently is. This is the new Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation: https://vancouversun.com/news/b-c-to...d-clean-energy

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/1111-e-7-ave

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https://i.imgur.com/cL7WX6X.jpg
Images from Stantec Architecture https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/1111-e-7-ave

Saw this last week, glad it's out for public review already, it's a great looking addition to VCC.

Do we still not know who bought 1155 E 6th Ave?
Seems like a good place for eventual future VCC expansion, since there's not that much room at the rest of VCC once this lot is built on.

Low Tide bought that site.

For $117.5m - a bit beyond VCC's budget. They'll just have to stick to their plan to redevelop and expand on site.

Ok then.
There’s just not really that much extra room here, and this site isn’t on the Flats.

So it would make sense to go taller and maximize the density higher than 6 FSR and overbuild over their needs and lease out the rest on short terms, or at least design this building to add more levels later.

Expanding further on-site would likely require the partial or full demolition of current VCC buildings.
Which is a problem.

That's the long term plan, the education space will be rebuilt on the northern blocks with rental housing replacing the original campus at the south end along Broadway.

Not for VCC, apparently.

UDP Resubmission -1111 E 7th Ave V1- Centre for Clean Energy & Automotive Innovation
 

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https://twitter.com/City_Duo/status/...302229504?s=20

That looks like a very well thought out CC building.

Wow, that VCC photo is the same area!? Wild.

[IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...eaefe794_c.jpgcampus-plan-canoe-900x675 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
Credit: VCC

That's actually Nanaimo, the photo is representing the First Nations history of the area, the subject in the photo is Salish.

This photo is the eastern end of false creek before being filled in.
https://www.straight.com/files/v3/st...?itok=_hfYi4gk
Image is public domain.

While the VCC site was not directly on the shore line it did have a large creek, China Creek, running through. https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/east-pa...6/photos/19589

imagine all the waterfront they could have sold if they hadn't filled it in, no vision back then.

If you consider a swamp waterfront property.

Preliminary massing for the future redevelopment phases. The residential towers shown in the surround lands are a misnomer (except for the Shaw site), only commercial is allowed.

From Dan Fumano, Vancouver Sun https://vancouversun.com/opinion/col...east-vancouver

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Images from VCC

Ugh, another tower cluster. I think we need more varied built form than just towers around every single station. I know it being herecy to say such on this forum, but really. These projects are so generic.

I have always liked the distinct town center model but even Burnaby is slipping from it.

I think this component of the Broadway Plan is quite distinct from say Brentwood due to the historic desire and existing presence of industrial and office.

This TOD, along with Emily Carr station, have a heavy focus on industrial, office, institutional uses - which is great for a TOD outside the downtown peninsula, no matter where in the region.

In the fantasy never going to happen category. I wish they would consolidate their VCC campus expansion with relocating the downtown campus functions to this site. Then use their "old" downtown campus for the Art Gallery building project (assuming it wouldn't shadow onto the square on the South side of the site). Then you could do something interesting with the Larwill Park site.

I'm a bit confused, the Shaw site and the block with the BCSPA headquarters, are those blocks owned by VCC or someone else?

Not owned by VCC. The Shaw site was bought by Low Tide a few years ago. The SPCA owns their property (not the entire block) and is getting $7M for it's redevelopment.

I'm not sure VCC should be building apartments. It's not like their land holdings are that big already anyways.

$7? That's a helluva deal for someone! :tup:

It's unclear to me from that article, will the SPCA be selling the site to somebody or is the money just a government grant with no exchange of property?

They're using the money to redevelop the site. They use a lot of donor money / donations from estates and wills.

Ahh, I see what I wrote that was a bit unclear. The $7M is a grant from the province for constructing the SPCA's new building.
The SPCA was previously looking at selling the site [listing] while maintaining a tenancy and be part of the future redevelopment. It's not public what their current plan is but the Broadway Plan doesn't allow residential there.

Oh that's interesting. Last I heard was they had some donations to specifically be used if they were in charge (specific architects and stuff). But I guess securing certain designers, and tenancy one obviously doesn't need to own the land & building.

They would definitely need a partnership or partial/full land sale in order to maximize the density, the site can support up to around 175,000 sqft with 1/3 industrial. From the CTV storey on the funding the SPCA is planning for ~29,000 sqft (animal centre & hospital) that would count towards industrial plus a 5k sqft education centre.

Building Permit was submitted last month.

They said they break ground next year.

BC Business article from December 15

https://www.bcbusiness.ca/Inside-Van...needed-housing

The VCC Station area is going to become quite the hub. I live next to VCC, so (depending on how long I live in my current apartment) I'll be able to do a lot of updates easily.

All the trees and light standards are down now.

Their clearing permit is in review but the excavation permit got issued today

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=236256973

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=218279887

From Zepf

It wasn't a swamp, but a decent waterway going up east to the cuts.
If maintained as it was, it would be like the Gorge waterway you see in Victoria today. The filling in of Main Street at where Science World is today to make it a causeway essentially cut off this waterway and turned it into a swamp. However, if well-maintained, it could still be a beautiful lake today: similar to Lost Lagoon at Stanley Park.

Main Street when it was still a bridge: on the left is the continuation of Falsecreek to the east:
https://samsullivan.ca/short-history-false-creek/

Old Map of Vancouver:
https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/sea2cit...5/photos/16409

Gorge waterway in Victoria:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@48.44067...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

SpongeG was correct saying that the City could've sold a lot more waterfront properties if it remained a waterway.

VCC Construction Today:
With all the construction going on in this area, I am wondering if it would face a lot of settlement issues similar to Richmond and other low-ground areas. I see the foundation pit for the VCC project very large. As I don't see any pilings here, are they utilizing the "float foundation" design for this?