[Burnaby] Sussex | 41 - 31 fl | Completed

[owenhujb]

Since no one started a thread for this, I will.

Sussex is a new 41 story development by Townlien with 1, 2, and 3 bedroom homes. It is currently under construction at 6050 Sussex.

REZ # 14-44 - Townline Homes

6050 Sussex Avenue, ptn of McKercher Avenue ROW, 4769 Hazel Street and 4758 Grange Street

Construction of a high-rise residential building and a new church facility for the West Burnaby United Church at 6050 Sussex Avenue, as well as an infill, market rental project comprised of a high-rise tower at 4769 Hazel Street and townhomes at 4758 Grange Street. In summary, the purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit the construction of two high-rise apartment towers (one 31 storey rental apartment building and one 41 storey strata apartment building), with a church fronting Sussex Avenue.

https://www.townline.ca/en/homes/new-homes/sussex







Couldn't find any renders for the 31 story building.

Thoughts on the design? I find it rather generic looking, something cooler could've been done to this triangular shaped lot.

[fredinno]

There's no rental as part of this project! Where'd you get that from?

[owenhujb]

Originally Posted by fredinno

There's no rental as part of this project! Where'd you get that from?

https://www.burnaby.ca/City-Services...-Projects.html

I believe that the shorter 31 fl tower will be the partially or all rental building.

[SpongeG]

why is there no render for the second tower?

[Klazu]

I have never heard of a rental tower and don't know where they would even fit one. I also thought this tower has 48 floors but might be mistaken.

They are making good progress on this one with two cranes up on site.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

why is there no render for the second tower?

It probably wasn't part of the initial design permit application and that possibly changed through the process and as the rezoning/design permit application was going through.

It happens all the time.

I'd be more surprised not to see it as part of the marketing material since that's usually where renders are more important to the developers.

But then again, not if it's all rental.
(though I doubt the entire 31 storey tower will be rental. Not for that location, anyway)

Consider also the fact that we don't have a full render view of what the rental tower for the Highline project farther down Sussex on the Beresford lane looks like. Only partial views and partial render views.

EDIT : Okay, I just saw that there is one overall render of the Highline project that does show both towers and in full, and is really the only one where you can see the entire form of the rental tower.
Most of the other renders from that project only seem to focus on the taller 48 storey non-rental/market tower.

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

It probably wasn't part of the initial design permit application and that possibly changed through the process and as the rezoning/design permit application was going through.

It happens all the time.

I'd be more surprised not to see it as part of the marketing material since that's usually where renders are more important to the developers.

But then again, not if it's all rental.
(though I doubt the entire 31 storey tower will be rental. Not for that location, anyway)

Consider also the fact that we don't have a full render view of what the rental tower for the Highline project farther down Sussex on the Beresford lane looks like. Only partial views and partial render views.

EDIT : Okay, I just saw that there is one overall render of the Highline project that does show both towers and in full, and is really the only one where you can see the entire form of the rental tower.
Most of the other renders from that project only seem to focus on the taller 48 storey non-rental/market tower.

Can you show us the render please?

Originally Posted by Klazu

I have never heard of a rental tower and don't know where they would even fit one. I also thought this tower has 48 floors but might be mistaken.

They are making good progress on this one with two cranes up on site.

There's grass on the neighboring existing high-rise developments that just big enough for a tower.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by fredinno

Can you show us the render please?

HIGHLINE project.
HIGHLINE!
Not Sussex.
That's the one I was referring to in my comment that you were quoting.

The Highline project is in this thread (below) and the render I was referring to is there, and the point I was making was about developers showing renders that include both the market and non-market towers.
Typically the convention is not to include or have renders of the non-market or rental tower since they're not selling those units.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=238559

I don't have any render for the Sussex project (other than what's already been shown on this thread) that shows both the market tower and the non-market tower which, AGAIN, is what I was talking about.

Read my comment correctly before asking me for information that I don't have and which I haven't claimed to have.

[owenhujb]

Construction site overview today 4/23/19

Here is the picture from Sunday 4/20/19

[SpongeG]

I am just confused as to how it will fit onto the site with Sussex, it looks like the one tower takes up the whole site.

[vanman]

You can make out the rental tower in these renderings.

[officedweller]

Thanks.
Floorplans show a side-loaded core, so condos won't be facing the rental tower directly.

[Klazu]

I walked by this evening and they have excavated the entire triangle lot. I still cannot see how two towers would fit there, as Sussex itself is going to be wide and massive. Rental tower would need to be right next to the neighbouring concrete high-rise which is hard to imagine.

Will be interesting to see what ends up going up but the second crane is positioned where the second tower would stand...

[officedweller]

The rental tower is the roughed in one to the left of the condo tower
on the other side of the McKercher RoW:

Originally Posted by owenhujb

Here is the site plan from Vancouver Market.ca:

The plan for this 2.9 acre site that includes an existing apartment building and church on the North side of Metrotown is for two towers including condos and rental apartments, under the RM5s designation in the Metrotown Centre Plan.The site is owned by Townline, and a preview of the proposal can be seen here.

Details of the proposal include:

a 41-storey condo tower and a 31-storey rental apartment tower
a redevelopment of the existing Burnaby West United Church
321 condo units
238 new rental apartment units
a total density of 5.0 FAR
retention of existing 18-storey and 15-storey apartment buildings with 254 units
362 underground parking spaces

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/tag/6050-sussex/

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The rental tower is the roughed in one to the left of the condo tower
on the other side of the McKercher RoW:



Here is the site plan from Vancouver Market.ca:

Makes a lot of sense now when you see that plan along with the renders above how the site is laid out.

Even though it seems like an odd way to lay out the buildings given the shape of that lot (Which is also triangular-ish/diamond-shaped quadrilateral, with the wider side on the northern part of it).

However, given the information from the rezoning application from the Vancouver market site, it seems the reason for this layout is because they're keeping those two other existing towers that are already on the lot (and just left in the shot you provided. And the ones closest to the camera in the two photos that owenhujb posted just before you), which means the only place they could locate the new towers on that combined lot is along the side facing Hazel street, with the church staying on Sussex at the corner meeting Grange.

It's going to be a tight fit, but it should work.

[officedweller]

In the first rendering posted by Vanman you can see the new church.
The I-beams form a cross.

[officedweller]

Pics by City of Rain at SRC April 21st

You can see that the excavation for the rental tower is off to the side (foreground with black & white crane in first pic)
and is not excavated as deep as that for the condo tower (red & white crane in background with parkade levels already poured)

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1446150, member: 70034

IMG_9453 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_9454 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_9456 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_9458 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_9459 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_9462 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_9465 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

[owenhujb]

Church has approached it's max height (I think) of 2 floors since the last update. 5/12/19

[owenhujb]

Zoom from Metrotower II 6/21/19

[officedweller]

Nice shot, thanks!