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Originally Posted by Phrescata
Two new entrances to Granville station? Sign me up!
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That will be easier to build than Daily Hive states.
The ticketing hall for Granville Station is actually under Seymour Street, with the escalators aligned to the north
under the Seymour St. RoW to Dunsmuir (the escalators are not under the Hudson's Bay building nor under Gotham
or the St. Regis Hotel).
So it really just a few feet of excavation to access the ticketing hall from the east.
The Hudson's Bay part of the station is really just the retail concourse providing access to Granville St. and a stairwell off Seymour which circles back to the ticketing hall under Seymour St.
A passage extending to the hotel or the Richards side would be the main benefit, but that's only mentioned as an elevator.
There doesn't seem to be any elaborate underground mall under the project.
... and given the state of street life in downtown Vancouver, I'm surprised that the restaurants are largely plaza oriented and exposed to the street, rather than having retail at grade and restaurant patios only above grade and looking down to the street from secure terraces.
There's a bit of a disjuncture between the forms on either side of the alley
- it reminds me of how the two sides of Burrard Place (also across an alley) do not match.
Here they have a ribbon on the pavement trying to unify the site, but it doesn't really work.