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Old Posted Jan 31, 2017, 7:50 PM
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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver View Post
Happy to see an improved design come forward for 320 Granville, but mostly I am pleased to see forward momentum. I hope that this flies through the UDP, Council Rezoning, and DPB and as fast as possible.

I do echo the comments about a restaurant. This is a great site for a prominent restaurant, perhaps a steakhouse or something equivalently upscale enough to be a go-to place for business lunches and dinners. With all of the extra body heat that's incoming for the block, I think that there's an opportunity for additional full-service sit-down restaurants and incorporating that into the design is the only way it's going to happen.
No further rezoning necessary - that's why it has a preliminary date of April for the DP Board. The Urban Design Panel will have to like it first, presumably. It's a tight site, with quite a bit of the main floor taken up with the ramp to the parking and plant. With the corner cut away, and the atrium and elevators there's just room for a single 2,500 sq ft retail space on Cordova.
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