I was just looking at the Major Developments projects page at the City of Burnaby, and noticed a couple of Initial reports and applications had been submitted for July, and after a bit of sleuthing I found this application for a 19 storey mixed use (residential, ground floor retail and office) tower for the 3 lots at the corner of Royal Oak and Grimmer by some developers I haven't heard of before called ifortune Homes.
In any case they had a preliminary rendering of the proposed design and apart from how far it is from the center of Metrotown (it's right at the very edge for what would qualify as the Royal Oak district, but still in the Metrotown parcel) is the height of 19 storeys which seems quite high for that locale. Now it's going to be a couple of blocks south of that old Tower on the south west corner of Kingsway and Royal Oak, so it won't be the tallest in that area, but still, a far cry from all the lowrises going up around that area.
In any case, here is the render (looking north on Royal Oak towards Kingsway, I think).....
The developer's website..
http://www.ifortunehomes.com/project/royal-oak-grimmer/
The project location:-
And where it is in street view looking down south on Royal Oak and relative to the Towers to the west with Midori and the Mets and Park to the west.
The lots in question are those two SFH's with the 'For sale signs' and the lowrise multi-unit building neighbouring them to the south and partially obscured by those 2 trees....
The only other July update seems like a formal initial rezoning application for the Chris Dikeakos (for Thind? I forget the developer.) designed highrise project in the lots between Metroplace and the now under construction and currently excavating Highline project just south of the Skytrain station at Metrotown.
I believe some renders had been posted before for that one.
It seems like they'll follow the same formula (more or less) as Highline for that one:- A 45-48 storey market tower on Beresford, with a (I'm guessing) 10-15 storey non market rental midrise tower to the south of it.
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