1649 East Broadway
Recently city council approved "two additional storeys to accommodate a 12-storey rental building with commercial retail space at grade". This will be the tallest building in quite some distance, ironically, from the busiest Skytrain station in the system. Source:
COV Rezoning Centre
This is one of the very few changes to Broadway and Commercial in basically forever. They did build a four storey medical building on the north west corner back in 2010. Other than that and the new Skytrain station & lines nothing else in the surrounding area has changed until now. The Safeway is up for future redevelopment, I'll put that in a separate message.
Google Street View of Commercial and Broadway in 2007
Street view goes back to 2007 and you can see how little has changed here at this tremendously busy cross roads. Compare and contrast with the changes at Cambie St and Marine Dr intersection since 2007:
Google Street View of Cambie and Marine
Photo source: me
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