Richmond Updates
 

THE RICHMOND UPDATES THREAD

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After a long hiatus, I have finally gotten around to starting the long-promised Richmond updates thread! The City of Richmond has many under-the-radar projects, both in and outside of the city centre, and I would like to dedicate some attention to them here. I took a bike ride around Richmond to show most of the current projects underway.

First, some useful links:

The Richmond Official Community Plan
- Outlines Land use and has colourful maps of the city’s zoning designations. There is a large map (2041 OCP Land Use” as well as https://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/bylaws/ocp/sched2.htm?PageMode=HTML.

The Richmond Interactive Map, which shows where rezoning and development applications are located. To turn them on, click on “Planning Services” at the left and turn on “Active Development Applications.” What’s nice about the RIM is that it often shows new applications before any other resource in this list, and that you can see every single application submitted for a site, even completed ones.

Current Development Applications List - Updated monthly; lists new development applications only. It can be easier to discover new applications through this list than through the map, although they are not organized by date for whatever reason.

City Council Hearings - Allows you to find out about the next rezoning applications to debated at city hall. Excellent place to find the applications themselves, with architectural renderings and all.

Development Permit Panel Hearings - Allows you to find out about the next development applications to be debated. Find renderings here too.

Weekly Updated list of Building Permits - Often the best place to see which projects are about to start construction. Most of the stuff in here is SFH’s though.

City Centre future road plan: self explanatory. Although most of this plan is at least 5 or 10 years away, some of the roads are currently in the planning process. One of the most major is River Road (the long red line referred to as the North Loop Road), which will allow the city to build a massive park on the Fraser River, as well as many developments on the East side of the Road.

THREADS FOR CURRENT RICHMOND PROJECTS (updated June 2018)

International Trade Centre - vanman - Under Construction.

Concord Gardens - VancouverOfTheFuture - Complete and Under construction

Pinnacle Park Place - mr.x - Complete, Under construction and Proposed

Viewstar - SkyboxInvestment - Starting construction

River Green - metroXpress - Under construction

Steveston Updates - whatnext - This thread has been quiet a while

Garden City Lands Park - Genauso - Giant new city park

Parc Riveria - officedweller - almost complete; 6 storey midrises + Townhouses

Now, the first “update.” I started my trip by Bridgeport station and went South through the Capstan Village, then west to the Olympic Oval and finishing by Brighouse. All photos are mine unless stated; all are taken June 16, 2018 unless stated.

BRIDGEPORT AREA

Oak Street Bridge Hotel Project - Ampar Developments

This one is just east of the bridge on Bridgeport road. It’s been an abandoned lot for years - I think that the original development got cancelled, but they started clearing a few months ago.

Development Permit Link

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International Trade Centre - Myie Development

The first building in a new office and commercial district, to be built on the site of the Summer Night Market. http://itcrichmond.com/

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Education Centre - New Continental Properties

This one has been in the works for a while. Located just south of the International Trade Centre, It includes hotels, retail, and education uses, and is currently in pre-construction. Interestingly, there is an orphan lot in the middle of the development - an Italian restaurant - and eventually this lot will become a parking lot.

Newest Rezoning Application

Vancouvermarket article about the development - thank you to officedweller

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Viewstar - Yuanheng

This one is massive. Something like 10 towers on an entire city block, and it will include a new community centre and an office tower. Currently selling and starting construction. http://viewstar.ca/

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CAPSTAN VILLAGE

This city block is dominated by developments by Concord and Pinnacle. It will include a future skytrain station and city park. To date only about half of the block has been built out.

Overview

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Sorrento and Torino - Pinnacle

Pinnacle loves to build enormous blocks with Hong Kong-like density. The block under construction, Sorrento, will have 4 towers total when complete. The large dirt pit in front of Sorrento is the 3rd phase of the development, to be called Torino (although they consider it to be the 2nd phase for some reason). Pinnacle also owns the NW corner of the block, to be home to a hotel and more condos.

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Map of the Pinnacle Development, from Pinnacle Development Application

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This is where the first phase (0th phase?) meets Sorrento.

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Torino lot.

Concord Gardens - Concord

Concord has finished 3 towers, and is building 2 more in this development. I daresay that they have used spandrel rather well in this development, and that the streetscape feels very cozy.

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Last photo: the impark lot is a future Dava developments project - they have their sign up at the corner of Capstan and Garden City.

Concord also owns the SW corner of the city block, at Capstan and No. 3 Road (where their presentation centre now sits). They plan to add 3 more towers, but this development is currently under rezoning.

Fiorella - Polygon

This is the 3rd phase of Polygon’s Avanti project. Currently pre construction.

Vancouvermarket article

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This last photo shows the streetscape by Avanti. The development is super wide and essentially cuts off a 200m city block with a concrete wall, but at the end of the road, they have built in a pedestrian connection to the mall north of the site.

Aberdeen Park - City of Richmond

I haven’t seen this one mentioned in the Suburban thread. New urban park kitty corner to Aberdeen mall, and it looks like it’s about to open.

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OVAL VILLAGE

Now, onto the oval village - one of my favourite areas of the city. There is a lot of land left to be developed, most of it being south of the oval. A future development site will be the WorkSafeBC site, which is huge. Now, for current developments…

River Green 2 - Aspac

This is one of the most impressive new projects in Richmond. The second phase of RG alone will include 7 towers when finished, and the 2 towers that they’ve completed so far have a very well proportioned and finished design. My pictures do not do it justice.

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All along my trip, I saw many Granville Island concrete trucks running around. I eventually tracked them down to be for a giant pour at RG2.

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River Park Place 2 & 3 - Intracorp

Phases 2 and 3 are being built together. The first and second photo are taken from NW, the last one from the south, at a 4 way intersection where one road makes a 90 degree turn and 2 others end.

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Cascade City - Landa Global

This one will hopefully look good when it’s finished. Landa Global is prepping the site for 2 wavy towers, which look different than most of what’s been built in the area. (Side note: I hope that the RONA north of this site finds a new home soon, because it sits on prime land. They have a lease until 2035, unfortunately.)

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CITY CENTRE

Orchid - Beedie

Almost finished. To the north of this site sits the old Cactus Club site, which I’m hoping will get redeveloped within a few years.

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Lansdowne District - Vanprop Investments

The site of Lansdowne mall is to be transformed into a new community, with 24 towers and a lot of public space. The plan is to first develop around the mall, then the mall itself.

Project Website

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Atmosphere Richmond - Southstreet Development

A large, 7 tower development across the street from Lansdowne mall. Buildings on the site have been demolished, but no construction yet. Designed by GBL architects.

Sales Website

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Live at Richmond Centre - Shape Properties

Designed by GBL architects, Richmond Centre will have over 1800 condos. They plan to retain at least part of the mall when the entire development is complete.



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The presentation centre is currently under construction.

Lot South of Brighouse Station - Keltic Development

Replacing a large strip mall, this 4 tower development, is designed by GBL architects. The site is currently being demolished.

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Elle Richmond - Regent International

Built on a super narrow lot, Elle is one of the more “modernist” towers being built in Richmond (although it’s quite hard to say that it’s a modernist design). Located at the corner of Buswell and Cook Rd.

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Park Road Square Development - Grand Long Holdings

Three tower development currently undergoing rezoning. Doesn’t look too good in my opinion.

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Live at Alfa - Anderson Square Holdings

Located the corner of Anderson and Buswell. Alfa has been sold out since 2014 or 2015, and a dirt lot for about as long. I think that it’s gotten a few inches deeper a month since then, because when I visited the site, it seemed deeper than I last remembered. Not sure when construction will start.

Also, in the week between starting work on this thread and finally publishing it, the website was taken down.

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GLITZ - iFortune Homes

Located at Anderson and 3 Road, across from city hall, Glitz is one of the better looking new towers. It’s designed by GBL architects. The taller tower on No. 3 road is for offices, while the podium is for residential. Between my last visit to the site and the taking of the photo, the compacting dirt has been removed. Currently undergoing development application.

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6333 Cooney Rd - Bold Properties

Included this one because the site has an interesting history. About 10 years ago, a development called “Serenade” was cancelled here. The current project is undergoing a development application; as it was submitted this year I don’t expect construction to start for another few years.

Also, Bold properties is planning a project at 8131 Westminster Hwy - about 50m away from the corner of Westminster Hwy and No. 3 Road.

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Grand at Lansdowne - CCM Investment Group

At the corner of Lansdowne Rd and Cooney Rd. This tower is now essentially complete.

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Garden City Lands Park

This is Richmond’s largest new park, and about half of it will be dedicated to urban farming. The perimeter trail opened to the public around mid-June.

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MIDRISE PROJECTS

I decided to include some mid rise projects as well, as I find them to be rather interesting. Richmond has a few places where midrise projects are concentrated, shown in the photos below.

This first one is at the intersection of Cooney and Park Rd, and includes a midrise + townhouses. The area east of Cooney Rd has seen (and will continue to see) a rather interesting form of development that the city calls a “Parking structure townhouse” - a ground level parking garage with 4 storeys of condos above, with townhouses lining the streets and laneways.

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Berkley House - Polygon

Berkley house is a 6 storey project located in the Alexandra Rd neighbourhood - a city block that’s been rezoned for midrises and townhouses. Richmond’s new walmart and Cambie fire station are located here.

Berkley house is something like the 5th or 6th Polygon project in the area, the previous one being Trafalgar Square, currently under construction.

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Berkley House presentation centre, Odlin Rd.

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Berkley House site.

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Trafalgar Square, located about 100m North of the Garden City lands.

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Parc Riveria Monaco - Dava Developments

A mix of 6 storey and 4 storey condo buildings, as well as townhouses. Monaco is the last condo building, currently UC. This site is on the North arm of the Fraser river, and is visible from the Canada line Skytrain bridge. To the east of the site will be a city park and several more townhouse projects, by other developers.

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Also, “The Gardens” by Townline, at the corner of 5 Road and Steveston Highway, is a major mid rise project. I can’t imagine wanting to live so close to the highway though.

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Well, that’s that! Richmond has an incredible future ahead if this rate of development and foreign cash continues. Some potential problems will be traffic (as the city centre is already a parking lot during rish hour), as well as house prices, as they are often comparable to Vancouver’s already. I will occasionally update this thread with new images, especially since the summer has now arrived.

:2cents:Thank you for a symphonic set of opening pictures.
I think that it is time for this thread, especially given some of the splendid projects shown here.
Perhaps a lot of people in the Metro region and / or on ssp, don't give Richmond that much thaought.
Being in the flight paths of YVR dictates that it not exceed a certain height, and for many people, that translates as uninteresting.
Looking at this, that's all about to change, I rather think;)

What a high quality thread and posts. Thank you very much.

As a former Richmond resident, I'm going to look forward keeping an eye on things in this thread.

Fantastic thread. Thanks for the massive photo updates!

great thread, thanks for doing all this work! :tup:

Thanks, so much to keep track of

Thanks for creating the thread!

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And there's that Townline Homes project at No 3 Rd. & Lansdowne
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Subbed. Looked like a great day for a bike ride.

Actually some nice looking projects underway in Richmond, thanks for the updates.

I haven't seen the renderings for this one, thanks!

Also, today I found the rezoning applications for an Onni project at Alderbridge and Minoru Blvd.

Source: Rezoning Application by Onni (Page 154 onward)

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What scares me a bit about this development is the temporary intersection at Alderbridge and Minoru. The city plans to move the intersection to meet the new alignment once the land beside Riva 2 is developed, but for now this intersection is a mess. They've left only one travel lane SW-bound on Alderbridge.

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Slightly different rendering of the Townline project on No. 3 Rd @ Lansdowne (NW corner)

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Ah yes, dozens of high rises to be built and bought out by mostly corrupt money from China, in condos where nobody will live, and resulting in the ever growing inflation of housing prices in Vancouver which makes it unaffordable for actual residents of Vancouver. You dont need war machines to take over countries these days, just buy out all the politicians with ill gotten money. What is happening in Vancouver, especially Richmond are not exciting property developments, its a takeover.

Thank you very much for setting up this thread. While I share some of ssiguy's cynicism regarding the ability of these projects to actually improve quality of life in the city, I grew up in Richmond and appreciate being able to keep track of what's going on there.

Where's your source?

I knew someone had to come in here and make all these skewed claims.

As far as I'm concerned, the quality of life has already improved by leaps and bounds compared to 15 years ago, where most areas were just run-down industrial blight. Now there are many improved urban areas where people can go to. Only thing that brings in criticism is the demographic makeup in this city. As a result, Richmond and its population never fail to attract the usual racist comments. Note scrapin's choice of wordings: "it's a takeover". This is darn Trumpish.

Happy Canada Day!

Unattractive industrial areas do not hurt quality of life nearly in the same way that unaffordable housing does. I know we all have a growth fetish on here, but the bigger picture needs to be kept in mind.

The amount of “blight” is at an all time high in Richmond with all the empty lots sitting vacant waiting to be developed.

Right... and the other cities in the Metro are exempt from this? Scores of condo units in towers in Vancouver, Burnaby and even Coquitlam have been scooped up by "foreign money". Canada is an open market and economy and it's just the way the country is built and run. Perhaps in the future a different elected government will change the course it's on, but given the way our neighbors to the south are treating immigrants, it's not a bad time to continue capitalizing on foreign investment and talent.

I think we do have a huge problem with unaffordability and rampant housing speculation but criticizing growth and development and an increasing supply of condos as anathema is missing the point of being on this site, I think.

Updates in Richmond deserve a thread and I for one thank the OP for collecting all this information together. I also spent many young years in Richmond and it's unrecognizable today...for the better.

What about underutilised or abandoned industrial lots, such as those in the River Rock Casino neighbourhood, or the blight south of Marine Gateway? You rather they continue that way?

It's not about growth fetish; it's about improving neighbourhoods going through periods of decay. This region has always been trying to keep afloat by attracting foreign funds here, and when they do arrive to drive the local economies, you want to have your cake and eat it too? Sure, funds coming from abroad are not always clean money, but to stereotype housing in Richmond as mostly bought by unclean money is more than bordering racism.

The bigger picture is that you have a job, not starving and still living in this region. If you want to change the status quo, don't blame it on the wrong people.

And that's the problem of the developers and Richmond condo buyers? Do you know how backlogged the City of Richmond's approval waiting list is? There are literally hundreds of DP applications waiting in line to be approved, with an overloaded Richmond staff not having streamlined procedures to approve many of the applications, making conflicting rules and having constant changes to all forms of designs.

Also, are we building a city for the future of this region or for the past? The blight of today will turn into the vibrant neighbourhoods of tomorrow. You have a problem with that too? Might as well keep the whole region forested and green so that the local animals will always be at ease.

It's just racist talk: pure and simple. The world get that a lot these days.

That whole shaky house of cards is about to fall down. Beginning in September Canada and China will be sharing taxation information. If you have relatives holding property, do them a favour and tell them to get out of the market now.

I’m just touching on your comment about industrial blight. Having been born and raised in Richmond I don’t remember there ever being as much “blight” as there is now, due to the dozens of empty lots waiting to be developed. Obviously this comes along with a city that’s growing. But saying Richmond has gotten rid of a lot of blight is not true

I'm from Richmond and I love it, believe me I am not singling it out. All I'm saying is I can't get that excited over these condo developments because I know very few of my peers will be able to afford to live in them. To me, they are symbols of inequality and money trumping all. And this goes for the whole region.

You shouldn't put words in my mouth. When did I even mention the cleanliness of the money or stereotype that most of it is bought by the dirty variety? I don't care how the money is made, I care that it's had the impact of pushing many people in our region into extremely precarious housing situations.

I never mentioned that I'd prefer they stayed vacant lands either. I like the way the development all looks. These projects that SkytrainCar026 put together so well are great. I just wish they weren't coming in under these circumstances. And actually, as a long-time resident of Richmond, I resent you calling these "neighbourhoods going through periods of decay." They were never the prettiest, but they served our community just fine.

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In any case, I was worried about this taking over the thread right away. I imagine this might still go on for a bit, but I really hope that anyone who has updates to share on Richmond developments still does so. I'll certainly always be very interested to see them. I am still very attached to Richmond and am always excited to see how it grows.

Nope, don't have any blood ties in China, if that's what you are implying, and thank you very much for your concern. It's good news that Canada and China are taking steps to address the problem of illegal money parked here, but this has nothing to do with racist attacks from yourself, plus a few others.

There is no reason for you to step into those areas, right? Would you hang out at those gravel car junkyards close to the River Rock casino on any ordinary day?

Glasscity, you did not say that, and I was pointing to scrapin's remarks:
Glasscity, you did say you want Richmond to grow, so pray tell how you want it to grow if you think the direction the City is currently taking isn't improving the quality of life of people in Richmond? As far as I know, Richmond now has the Olympic Oval (a sports facility that the public can access). Even Vancouver does not have such a good public sports facility! The City also has a new recreational centre including a brand new swimming pool and aquatic centre behind City Hall. It also allows Walmart to open a new store at Garden City neighbourhood. There are other public/private developments coming up for the City, so what makes you think that all these developments are not contributing to the improvement of the standard of living for Richmond dwellers?

As for over-inflated housing: this is a problem that affects the entire region and not just Richmond alone, and is the result of short-sighted government policies, and the greed of local property owners. Rich people from abroad only come in to do what the policies allow them to, but they get most of the blame when problems fester. Now locals are labelling these people criminals for bringing in illegal money, driving up property prices. That's dangerous stereotyping. I just want to point that out. *Note to Whatnext*

They are highly visible without stepping into the area though. For example the large parcel of land across from Landsdowne mall. Completely vacant eye sore of a lot that has been sitting there for over a year. Saem goes for many lots along 3 road. That's my point, these are highly visible blight which Richmond has never had before. Not sure what actually walking into the lot has to do with anything.

I did say previously that the City has a huge backlog of development permits waiting to be approved. There is no point blaming builders, developers and condo buyers for that. The lot you mentioned is highly visible from the skytrain, and I do agree the visual impact is pretty huge, but what other areas are a "blight" besides that one? A lot of the structures that were torn down were ugly low-density single-storey buildings sitting on huge parking lots in the first place, so to take the initial step to redevelop these buildings is a good thing.

I also did mention that we are building the city for the future, and without all the developments going on now, we will have worse housing affordability problems than what we are experiencing now.

...coincidentally (and back on topic re: actual developments...)

PS - remember that most of downtown South in Vancouver was light industrial warehouse type building until the 1990s.
- also note that as time goes on, the public is generally receptive to denser development, so playing a waiting game may not be so bad.

Here's more on the Townline proposal across from Lansdowne Mall on No. 3 Rd. @ Lansdowne.

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http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/0...oad-lansdowne/

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http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/0...oad-lansdowne/

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All those new amenities are awesome (except for the Walmart, that was ridiculous). But I don't think there's a direct connection between the new condo buildings and those amenities, which largely serve the new buildings anyway. The oval is the one exception, and would've been built regardless.

I know that over-inflated housing is a region-wide problem, and I'm complaining about it in a region-wide sense. Just that the topic happened to come up here, so I responded here. In no way do I think is Richmond distinct in this problem from Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey or anywhere else.

My beef is both with rich people from abroad AND government, to be perfectly clear. Although my issue with government is that they're lax with these rich people, not that they're not allowing more stuff to be built for these rich people to buy.

I appreciate that the city centre looks a lot nicer now, and as I said, I do like watching these things get built. Just in the back of my mind, I know that for all the good they bring, they're emblematic of a huge issue we have in the city too, which diminishes my full appreciation of them. I lived/worked in Richmond from 2002-2017. The city changed extraordinarily in that time. Can I say that my quality of life was in any way improved with these changes? Not really. I still ate at the same places, took a bus that came with the same frequency but now was more crowded, etc. I think it's great what's happening to Richmond's city centre from an urban fanatic's point of view, but because very few people already living in the region seem to be buying into those projects, it doesn't really give me the sense that it's contributing anything good except to those rich people from abroad that are moving into them, except that they're nicer to look at I guess.

If I could choose an alternative timeline where Richmond sees drastically less development but housing remains more affordable, I'll choose it 100% of the time. And I'm not blaming these developments for creating this situation, I'm just saying it's hard for me to see all these nice condo buildings go up and not think about how no one I know would be able to take advantage of them by moving in. They're essentially long-term hotels for people not from here, with little intention of ever getting involved in the community. Just not something I can get all that excited about.

Agreed, Officedweller!

I'm a fan of the growing number of proposals with office components we're seeing, substantial ones too. If the Metro Vancouver Growth Strategy is predicated on a series of downtowns throughout the regions, they should be destinations as much as they are starting points for people going downtown. This means they should have offices as well as residential. Good to see that's happening!

The vacant lot across from city hall, the huge vacant lot across from Richmond centre, the numerous vacant lots around the 3 road/Sea island way area. The list goes on. I'm not blaming developers or buyers. You mentioned that Richmond has gotten rid of blight in an earlier post and I'm merely pointing out that Richmond has more blight now then ever before.

Without the increase in property taxes paid by new owners, property transfer taxes, and contributions from developers, do you think Richmond and the province would have the ability to come up with funds for City projects?

To be fair, where in the world which is at least half decent is really affordable these days? Human population is increasing, and the planet Earth isn't really making new land, so huge price increases is expected, especially for cities and countries that want huge population increases. You can mitigate the situation, but you can't turn back the clock on that.

It would be nice is a convention hotel / convention centre was built on No. 3 Rd. near a Canada Line Station.
I suppose the River Rock fills that role somewhat, but I recall there was a desire to put on in the boonies
on the Garden City Lands (wrong place in my view)

Are one of those huge developments by the airport/Bridgeport Station not gonna have any? Like the International Trade Centre or whatever other ones there are.

Those places you mentioned were never nice: they were pretty run-down in the first place. We are just experiencing a transitional period right now. As for other areas where developments have completed, the previous "blight" is now gone.

I get that affordability is a concern everywhere, but let's not pretend Vancouver is like everywhere. Housing prices are way out of whack of local incomes and economies, especially when compared to other expensive cities around the world. This is more than just capitalism run amok.

The International Trade Centre has offices and a hotel (don't think the hotel has convention space ) - it's a boutique hotel.

Next door on the north side of Sea Island Way is an ESL school project, I think.

http://itcrichmond.com/images/rendering.jpg
http://itcrichmond.com/

Those were all perfectly functioning buildings housing different types of shops and businesses. You have quite a warped view of what you consider "run down" as I remember accessing the businesses that were housed in those areas quite recently, never considered them run down. In any event, a building is infinitely more aesthetically pleasing than a vacant lot. I agree that development comes with a growing city but these lots have sat vacant for upwards of years now. That is an unnecessary amount of time when they could have continued to stand as functioning businesses until the time of construction started. I'd like to get back on topic though. Again, just pointing out Richmond currently has more blight now than it ever had in the past

Update of this one from GBL twitter.

Diagrid => diagonal louvres and X louvres (like 8X Yaletown (also GBL)

PS - note the wide sidewalk setback that would allow space for a Canada Line guideway extension.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhscFxMUwAAFuwP.jpg
A newly proposed mixed-use development at 6340 No. 3 Road
has successfully progressed through Advisory Design Panel.
The project comprises of 150,000sf of commercial/office space
and 450,000sf of residential units.
https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

More renderings here:

http://www.gblarchitects.com/work/6340-no-3-road/

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http://www.gblarchitects.com/work/6340-no-3-road/

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http://www.gblarchitects.com/work/6340-no-3-road/

http://www.gblarchitects.com/wp-cont...ct-slide03.jpg
http://www.gblarchitects.com/work/6340-no-3-road/

Truly urban development. This is what I was hoping Olympic Village would look like, and it looks like Richmond is doing it way better!

I don't think OV was ever intended to be a complete community with office buildings - just residential and some retail.

looks good, much better than the staples etc.

Just awesome. Can't wait to see this up. Nice to have a more definitive cluster right at the main downtown Richmond station/terminus.

To be honest Richmond has some of the coolest looking architecture :D
Too bad we can't build higher or we'd see some really cool stuff.

Here's an update from this morning. Looks like they're going ahead with pre-loading the site already.

https://i.imgur.com/3nQycED.jpg?1

Is it about the diagrams officedweller posted two weeks ago?