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Originally Posted by Changing City
The two 6 storey buildings being built further south are also rental, and wood-frame. Unless the developer builds with mass timber (which apparently costs pretty much the same as concrete), then six storeys is the maximum permitted under code. The economics of developing, especially in East Vancouver, tends to favour less expensive construction.
The exception is at Joyce Station, Westbank took the lead on building two towers, firstly condos and now rentals, in much taller towers, and presumably that has worked out for them, but they have much deeper pockets than the developers building here. There's a third tower there too, but that has a different developer and appears to have stalled before a public hearing.
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The two MIRHPP buildings (2543 Renfrew St (DP-2020-00235) & 2603 Renfrew Street (DP-2020-00236)) were approved at eight floors, and will be concrete construction.
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https://web.archive.org/web/202111150018...20191212/documents/phea2policyreport.pdf
As for the third tower at Joyce-Collingwood Station, it was redesigned twice, and then rejected by the UDP, so it was already on shaky ground. However, the biggest reason it didn't move forward was likely due to the huge backlash over the loss of the Filipino businesses that currently occupy the block.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...lipino-community-opposes-condo-1.5946942
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