General Vancouver Updates

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by jlousa

Probably ~$50-75 per repair time/parts, but it sucks in a commercial building when between all your doors you are doing a few a week plus a door out of service and forcing people to find their way around because the door is inoperable.

Those levers aren't required on external doors though.

[officedweller]

1055 Vernon Dr.

This luxury collision centre is opening its newest location this week

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/no1-collision-centre-opens-new-location

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by officedweller

1055 Vernon Dr.

This luxury collision centre is opening its newest location this week https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/no1-collision-centre-opens-new-location

Ugh 'branded content' from Daily Hive. What makes the building much more interesting than the 'don't ask us how much you'll pay for the repair' collision repairers is that they're sitting underneath Precision NanoSystems and their 75,000 sq ft new global headquarters, and genetic medicine biomanufacturing centre, which will allow the company to expand its capabilities to include the clinical manufacturing of RNA vaccines and therapeutics. Originally it was designed to be a strata industrial building, but they took everything over the car repairers.

[WarrenC12]

Almost makes me want to drive my Tesla into a telephone pole to check it out.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Almost makes me want to drive my Tesla into a telephone pole to check it out.

Is that why there are so many injured Tesla's on the old tram right of way near Granville Island? The No 1 Collision shop there? What is a 'luxury collision" anyway?

tesla by bcborn, on Flickr
my photo

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Is that why there are so many injured Tesla's on the old tram right of way near Granville Island? The No 1 Collision shop there? What is a 'luxury collision" anyway?

That's near the existing Tesla service center.

As for luxury, well if you have to ask... don't worry about it.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

That's near the existing Tesla service center.

As for luxury, well if you have to ask... don't worry about it.

No 1 is an approved Tesla repair centre though. Does that service center do major body repair work?

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

No 1 is an approved Tesla repair centre though. Does that service center do major body repair work?

No1 does and Tesla is not ICBC certified, I don't know why. They do collision repair in the US. I know you can get Tesla to replace windshields etc. and you need to pay up front before ICBC will re-imburse you, I don't know about the rest.

As far as those cars in the picture (which is over a year old I think), I have no idea what the history is. Perhaps they are write-offs.

[hollywoodnorth]

couple interesting Strata Windups for sale >>

813 East Broadway
https://cbrevancouver.com/broadhillmanor/

302 – 450 Greensboro Place
6601 – 6633 Turnberry Crescent
320 – 340 Wethersfield Drive
https://cbrevancouver.com/langaraestatesone/



"Renderings are for visualization purposes only and are not intended to communicate development plans."

[officedweller]

Nice!
Good to see the Langara-adjacent site included.

[madog222]

Good finds!

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

813 East Broadway
https://cbrevancouver.com/broadhillmanor/

The listing strongly suggests assembly with the adjacent corner lot for a 12-20 storey redevelopment.

That would still be under the 150ft frontage required for a tower, unless they also count the frontage along the cross street of corner lots?

[hollywoodnorth]

also looks like 3380 Vanness is under contract. so we should see this thing come down sooner than later.

https://www.collierscanada.com/en-ca/pro...ouver-british-columbia-canada/can2002166

[hollywoodnorth]

and an interesting land assembly that sold here also. 18 Story potential they say >>

https://londonpacific.ca/property/461-46...y-secure-rental-development-opportunity/

[madog222]

Broadway Plan changing things fast!

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

and an interesting land assembly that sold here also. 18 Story potential they say >>

https://londonpacific.ca/property/461-46...y-secure-rental-development-opportunity/

Yup, 18 storeys for a rental with 20% below market.

[madog222]

This is interesting, Reliance Properties is selling their lot at St George and E 8th. They had proposed a seven unit townhouse for the site and a development permit was approved in February this year.
With the three adjacent SFH lots along E 8th a 20 storey rental or 12 storey strata tower could be built.



https://www.collierscanada.com/en-ca/pro...ouver-british-columbia-canada/can2010526


Proposed and approved townhouse:

Image from Integra Architechture https://www.urbanyvr.com/the-saint-george-townhouses-reliance/

[logan5]

How did a 5 lot assembly come together so quickly?

[jollyburger]

Only this one sold within the last three years.

2536 GUELPH Oct 5, 2020 $1,505,000

Seems like someone owned the other properties since the early 2000s at least. They were doing unapproved renos on the buildings

A. THAT the City Clerk be directed to file 336D Notices against the titles to the properties at 469, 477, 483 and 491 East 10th Avenue (Lots 13, 12, 11 and 10, Block 124, District Lot 264A, Plans 1355 and 1771) in order to warn prospective purchasers that there are contraventions of the Zoning and Development and Vancouver Building By-laws related to these buildings.

B. THAT the Director of Legal Services is hereby authorized, in her discretion, to commence a legal action or proceeding in relation to the premises located at 469, 477, 483 and 491 East 10th Avenue and may, in her discretion, seek injunctive relief in that action or proceeding, in order to bring the buildings into compliance with City By-laws.

https://council.vancouver.ca/20030724/pe1.htm

[madog222]

Originally Posted by logan5

How did a 5 lot assembly come together so quickly?

They aren't assembled yet, just sold together. I think they are all owned by the same individual or group and were being rented out. They all have the exactly the same garage and fencing along the lane.

All 1910 built houses, a bit of a shame. Hopefully a few of them can be saved.

[logan5]

Some nice old houses on that block.

The CoV projects that the planning area will grow from 80 000 to 130 000 in the next 30 years.

Looking at the growth of the downtown peninsula over a 30 year period - from 1990 to 2020, the peninsula doubled in population from 55 000 to 110 000, so I think the Broadway estimate is way too low. There's also a lot more potential in the Broadway planning area with virtually every residential building eligible for redevelopment, and at higher densities than we first saw downtown. I most cases the new development will have 4 to 5 times the number of units than what was there before. I would predict the Broadway Corridor would easily more than double, or even close to triple in population in the next 30 years to well over 200 000.

[jollyburger]

483 East 10th wants to add a coach house and turn their main house into a 3-unit conversion



https://shapeyourcity.ca/483-e-10-ave