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Some highlights from the article:

As Senakw, the name of the project, sits within the reserve’s boundaries, the First Nation is able to fully exercise its rights and construct a redevelopment without having to follow the City of Vancouver’s zoning and years-long application and review process. It aligns with the city’s much-touted policy of reconciliation.

But they will still need to negotiate with the municipal government and regional district for road and utilities connections.

If all goes as planned, master planning and detailed design work will continue throughout 2020, and construction could begin in early 2021 for a full completion within just five years.

Some commercial spaces are also planned on the ground level, although the precise mix of retail, restaurants, and other forms of commercial development, potentially some offices, have yet to be determined.

Khelsilem says the First Nation is looking to start a conversation with the municipal government to extend the route of the future Arbutus Greenway streetcar towards Senakw.

The city’s master plan for the streetcar currently does not call for a span that serves the area, and city staff last year recommended disposing of the former railway right-of-way, selling it back to Canadian Pacific Railway for $1.00. But the planned density, coupled with Concord Pacific’s long-term plan of redeveloping their old Molson Coors brewery property, located immediately south of Senakw, could warrant a streetcar connection.

Source: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/squa...nakw-kitsilano


I do hope the final plan for ground-level commercial uses will be substantial and make a meaningful contribution to ubanity in the currently sleepy area.