https://storeys.com/chinatown-develo...ng-105-keefer/
Controversial Chinatown Project Heads For The Finish Line, With Help From Legendary Architect
Kerry Gold May 30, 2024 03:55 pm
"It will be another few years until buyers take occupancy at 105 Keefer, in the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown, making it a 13 or 14-year undertaking from the time of its initial proposal – one of the city’s longest-ever timelines for a condo development to come to fruition.
A decade in, the development saga of 105 Keefer, in the heart of Chinatown, will soon enter the phase where the developer can start selling pre-sales, expected this fall. And one of Vancouver’s most famous architects is helping them realize a project that’s been one of the most contentious and drawn-out in the city’s history.
The Beedie Group’s 105 Keefer project is one of the rare development applications to get rejected at the City, when it failed to obtain support from the city’s development permit board in 2017. The developer had already failed to get a rezoning for a higher 12-storey development with 106 condos and 29 social housing units for seniors, as part of a partnership with BC Housing. So Beedie went back to the drawing board and quickly re-applied with a proposal that didn’t require a rezoning and complied with outright use instead, at nine storeys with market-condos and retail only – no social housing. ..."
This fall, wonder if that will happen.