Grosvenor Pacific | 114.3m | 39 Fl | Completed

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Pics by Mcminsen, SSP

[trofirhen]

IMO, this building is rather "standard fare," but not bad. I appreciate the way they have kept the little yellow wooden house that was an Umberto's restaurant. Nice touch there.

[excel]

Yup the house makes it that much better!

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The name of this project is Grosvenor Pacific if mods wish to change the title.

[BobLoblawsLawBlog]

Would look even better with an extra 20 storeys. Finally they're ditching seafoam and spandrel

[red-paladin]

Title updated

[rofina]

This is nice! I like it! Very appropriate for a simple, elegant, DT tower.

Good!

[Aroundtheworld]

This building screams mediocrity, which surprises me because I'm generally impressed by Grosvenor's work. Way too much parking for a downtown address as well.

[BobLoblawsLawBlog]

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

Title updated

The height is also 114.3m (375ft). Thanks!!

source : http://grosvenorpacific.com/#project

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by Aroundtheworld

Way too much parking for a downtown address as well.

no there isn't, do you really want a repeat of the West End? little to no parking, $700 city parking permits, driving around for 15-30mins looking for a spot? even living downtown you need a car for when you go outside downtown.

[Aroundtheworld]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

no there isn't, do you really want a repeat of the West End? little to no parking, $700 city parking permits, driving around for 15-30mins looking for a spot? even living downtown you need a car for when you go outside downtown.

The reason why you can't find street parking right now is because it is underpriced. With the increase to $700, you should see that disappear as more car owners will use the underground spaces in their buildings which are currently only 50-70% occupied. There is plenty of parking available, you just don't see it right now.

I live downtown. I don't need car. For most trips outside of downtown, I use transit. If I do need to drive, I use Car2Go, but that is like <1% of the trips I make.

[urbancanadian]

Originally Posted by Aroundtheworld

This building screams mediocrity, which surprises me because I'm generally impressed by Grosvenor's work. Way too much parking for a downtown address as well.

I'm actually looking forward to this one almost as much as some of the starchitect developments going up. It's a style that I think we could use more of.

The reason the number of parking spaces is so high is likely because this will be a very high-end product. The people who buy into this will want a couple parking spaces regardless of how often they actually use their cars.

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

no there isn't, do you really want a repeat of the West End? little to no parking, $700 city parking permits, driving around for 15-30mins looking for a spot? even living downtown you need a car for when you go outside downtown.

Everyone doesn't need a car, especially if they're living downtown. I don't need a car and I don't even live downtown. Most of my friends don't need a car, but some do. None of my friends that live downtown have ever needed a car while living there.

Some people need cars. Some people don't. The percentage who don't need one is higher downtown than most places.

[dleung]

Looks very high end. I wonder if the simple massing of many of these new blockier towers would actually make the skyline appear smaller

[whatnext]

Nice building, but the "triangulated balconies" seem kind of pointless. That will lead to some unusable space inside the suite.

The treatment of the heritage house looks like "Oh shit, we have to save this thing, plunk it down over there". No context, no relation to the tower.

[officedweller]

From the downtown thread:

From Changing City Updates:

This seven storey cultural building is proposed for the vacant site where Tony Roma’s restaurant used to stand. It would have Studio/Office/Design Space on upper floors over Rehearsal and Gallery spaces. The design is a simple series of metal and translucent panels, and uses corten steel on the base entrance. Like the adjacent tower that is an associated rezoning (at 1380 Hornby) this is designed by acdf architects from Montreal with IBI Group.

https://changingcitybook.com/2016/10...acific-street/

PS - I just realized that the east façade is no longer flat. The balconies now have a jagged / irregular profile.
I wonder is the Hornby side is still flat (if jagged, that may cause encroachment over the sidewalk)?

Originally Posted by mcminsen

^^^ Quoting part of officedweller's post about the former Tony Roma's site at Pacific and Howe. I saw this Rezoning Application Addendum sign there today. Click on the link in officedweller's post to go back to some discussion from earlier this year.

[idunno]

I think this tower will look fantastic - and definitely has a luxury feel with the white marble looking east and west side cladding. Bonus for this development and the neighbouring Tony Roma's site is the westbound separated bike lane! Woo for that!

[urbancanadian]

Here are two more renders for the cultural portion next door, at 801 Pacific:


http://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applica...Renderings.pdf


http://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applica...Renderings.pdf

[Skook]

Originally Posted by Aroundtheworld

The reason why you can't find street parking right now is because it is underpriced. With the increase to $700, you should see that disappear as more car owners will use the underground spaces in their buildings which are currently only 50-70% occupied. There is plenty of parking available, you just don't see it right now.

I live downtown. I don't need car. For most trips outside of downtown, I use transit. If I do need to drive, I use Car2Go, but that is like <1% of the trips I make.

I live downtown too and was always a committed no car guy. Until kids. Car sharing just doesn't work very well for families.

[a very long weekend]

truly, grovenor is one of the best developers in the world.