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[WarrenC12]

That height will dominate the area. But I like the amount of retail being included, that area is slowly getting more and more. A brewery with a little more seating would be nice too. Dare to dream.

[Vancouver_Highrise]

Olympic Village is starting to remind me a lot of SLU in Seattle.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Vancouver_Highrise

Olympic Village is starting to remind me a lot of SLU in Seattle.

If only we had the South Lake Union Train to ride around.

[Feathered Friend]

Listen as real estate lobbyist Chuck Brook admits to Vancouver city council his opposition to a 5 floor rental building was in part paid for by its affluent Dunbar neighbours. No councillor objects to this & some seem quite receptive to his remarks

https://youtu.be/zFyQewtew4Q?t=11651

https://x.com/City_Duo/status/1714715741109518494?s=20

The fate of 6081-6083 Collingwood Place will be decided on Thursday, the rest of the items drew little interest and passed unanimously

[giallo]

Yeah. This is the good stuff.

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Even the "backside" looks impressive.
A really well done building.
Great stuff!

[FarmerHaight]

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://x.com/City_Duo/status/1714715741109518494?s=20

The fate of 6081-6083 Collingwood Place will be decided on Thursday, the rest of the items drew little interest and passed unanimously

The handy thing about this parcel with no back lane is it actually has an arterial road serving as its back lane!

[madog222]

Reports of a building collapse on Main near National Ave, anyone know which building?

[Feathered Friend]

Originally Posted by madog222

Reports of a building collapse on Main near National Ave, anyone know which building?

No injuries after bricks crumble from vacant building onto Vancouver sidewalk

By Simon Little Global News
Posted October 20, 2023 7:12 pm - Updated October 20, 2023 7:15 pm

Firefighters say it’s lucky no one was hurt when a large number of bricks fell onto a Main Street sidewalk from an abandoned building, Friday.

Police and fire crews were called to 928 Main Street, just south of the Georgia Viaduct just after 4 p.m. to reports of a potential building collapse.

Boruck said the city’s chief building inspector had ordered that the building will need to be torn down Friday for safety reasons.

He said traffic on Main Street would likely be affected until near midnight.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10040181/vancouver-main-street-building-collapse/

People here may know this better as 936 Main St, a failed development proposal (which would have included a façade retention) that was purchased by BC Housing in 2020.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

too bad. its a nice look facade. but cant have buildings falling over onto streets.

[jollyburger]

I'm surprised the window alcoves didn't collapse first. Jan 2022 Google Maps Streetview has panels dropping out and then they shoved two pieces of plywood into the opening to protect people walking by?

Looks like the NW corner collapsed. In the same 2022 photo you can see the entire section of brick is heaving inwards above that alcove. Seems like it's been showing signs of issues since 2012 but it's really noticeable in the past few years.



https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/10/20/vancouver-potential-building-collapse/

[mcminsen]

Feathered Friend's post about the proposal at 936 Main Street from five and a half years ago...

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

...



As usual the rest of the opinion can be read at :
https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2018/03/05...udp-approves-mixed-use-main-st-building/

And some of my pics from eight and a half years ago.
Click on the links in the posts to see the past discussion with more images.

Originally Posted by mcminsen

March 31 '15, my pics

[logan5]

The rate of progress in the DTES is so slow that we have buildings literally crumbling because of neglect. The DTES Local Area Plan is a major failure and needs to be redone in order to save this city's most historic and what should be most treasured neighbourhood. The fix is simple - higher density buildings, which will catalyze change. We can save these buildings that are falling apart or burning down, and we can save this neighbourhood.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by logan5

The rate of progress in the DTES is so slow that we have buildings literally crumbling because of neglect. The DTES Local Area Plan is a major failure and needs to be redone in order to save this city's most historic and what should be most treasured neighbourhood. The fix is simple - higher density buildings, which will catalyze change. We can save these buildings that are falling apart or burning down, and we can save this neighbourhood.

There are more buildings being redeveloped in the DTES than I can recall happening in the past 20 years, and most of them with significant density. This building burned out ages ago, it's been just a rotting shell for years. It was approved as a bigger market rental building over 5 years ago, as the image above shows, but the developers didn't go ahead with it, but put the site up for sale instead. It was bought by BC Housing, so presumably it'll now be developed as some sort of non-market housing like the Lu’ma Native Housing Society building that was completed two years ago on the adjacent site.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by logan5

The rate of progress in the DTES is so slow that we have buildings literally crumbling because of neglect. The DTES Local Area Plan is a major failure and needs to be redone in order to save this city's most historic and what should be most treasured neighbourhood. The fix is simple - higher density buildings, which will catalyze change. We can save these buildings that are falling apart or burning down, and we can save this neighbourhood.

Let's be honest, there's nothing particularly remarkable about that old building. There were many similar ones across the city. The proposal just subsumes and dwarfs it anyway, what would have been the point of keeping it?

[casper]

Originally Posted by Changing City

There are more buildings being redeveloped in the DTES than I can recall happening in the past 20 years, and most of them with significant density. This building burned out ages ago, it's been just a rotting shell for years. It was approved as a bigger market rental building over 5 years ago, as the image above shows, but the developers didn't go ahead with it, but put the site up for sale instead. It was bought by BC Housing, so presumably it'll now be developed as some sort of non-market housing like the Lu’ma Native Housing Society building that was completed two years ago on the adjacent site.

That would be a good move forward. That site is within walking distance to St Paul's hospital. I would be in favour of non-market housing targeting health care workers at this point.

Interesting that is was sporting an ad for Advil. That building must be a headache for all involved.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Let's be honest, there's nothing particularly remarkable about that old building. There were many similar ones across the city. The proposal just subsumes and dwarfs it anyway, what would have been the point of keeping it?

Because when you fix it up, it would look really nice. A much nicer architecture than the generic retail unit that would take its place.

[djmk]

Originally Posted by casper

That would be a good move forward. That site is within walking distance to St Paul's hospital. I would be in favour of non-market housing targeting health care workers at this point.

It's less than walking distance! The back of the building is across the street!

Because of this new hospital, this whole neighbourhood is ripe for gentrification (good or bad). I'm sure BC Housing could make serious profit from flipping this property.



from officedweller friend

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145575&page=45

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