Downtown Vancouver Updates II - Page 30

jollyburger · #**581** Posted **Jun 24, 2024, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbanight93

Does that mean Chupito will close? Too bad if so, it's a cute patio with good mexican fare.

They just applied so I assume nothing will happen until fall/winter.

jollyburger · #**582** Posted **Jun 26, 2024, 6:04 PM**

They were tearing down that building at Alberni/Denman for 1818 Alberni.

officedweller · #**583** Posted **Jun 28, 2024, 10:22 AM**

1818 Alberni

From Lawrence Black twitter June 26:

https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV

osirisboy · #**584** Posted **Jun 28, 2024, 3:07 PM**

Are they actually starting this? Or is it going to just be a vacant lot for the next few years

jollyburger · #**585** Posted **Jun 28, 2024, 3:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Are they actually starting this? Or is it going to just be a vacant lot for the next few years

Well they sat on the building permit since 2019 so I assume they are going ahead.

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STAGED CONSTRUCTION
Stage #1 - excavation and shoring - issued 2019-09-27

Revision 1 - Proposed 18 additional market dwelling units, revising the residential roof decks, adding an additional level of below grade parking (P4) to serve the extra residential units and revising the bicycle storage room on level P1 per M/A DP-2020-00806. Upgrade to VBBL 2019. Excavation & Shoring and ESC drawings revised and will replace previously issued drawings. - issued May 30, 2024

Foundation structure is in review.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=81751641

Feathered Friend · #**586** Posted **Jul 2, 2024, 7:58 PM**

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In a fresh blow to Downtown Vancouver, plans to add over 260,000 sq. ft. of retail, office, hotel service space, & a pool to the Hotel Vancouver have been withdrawn. This is despite supportive reviews by the Urban Design Panel & Heritage Commission last summer.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C87s1wqyyZ0/?img_index=1

officedweller · #**587** Posted **Jul 3, 2024, 4:14 AM**

1818 Alberni

From Lawrence Black twitter July 1st:

https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV

Vin · #**588** Posted **Jul 3, 2024, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://www.instagram.com/p/C87s1wqyyZ0/?img_index=1

Great news! I really hate that addition to such a grand building.

idunno · #**589** Posted **Jul 3, 2024, 5:54 PM**

Yeah I won't be too mad that they're revising it!

I'd like any expansion/reno to include a much better pool facility - maybe even a rooftop pool and bar. We need more of these in Vancouver!

dleung · #**590** Posted **Jul 4, 2024, 2:46 PM**

Dunno why they would want to block the light to so many rooms on the south side of the original building. Any addition taller than the lowest tier of the original building (10 storeys) will diminish the original architecture.

This is the most massing i'd be ok with:

giallo · #**591** Posted **Jul 4, 2024, 2:51 PM**

It 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 to lose investment downtown, but yeah, I was never a fan of this proposal. It didn't respect the hotel whatsoever.

Vin · #**592** Posted **Jul 4, 2024, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

The hotel's design is ok, but I'm loving the location of it. The corner of Granville and Davie needs something like this. That specific area needs some proper TLC.

Having said that, I'll miss the tea shop. As young adults, we used to go there, and buy six pack "off sales" at 3am after the bars closed. You'd ask for the 'cold tea'.

They were also selling $3 take-away rice packs at the side window. Although raising it to $5 over time, still a bargain for a downtown location. Window used to open till 3am and was great when I was cramming for exams. The current restaurant honours the previous legacy by naming it "Cold Tea".

That was when this area was a lot nicer and safer, with Wings across the street still in operation, and the Howard & Johnson hotel not turned into a DTES-style slum by the BC government.

I am not looking forward to tourists walking out to see all the filth around when the hotel is completed and opened. The City needs to maintain or enforce a much higher standard to bring back some normalcy to the area.

BaddieB · #**593** Posted **Jul 4, 2024, 5:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Dunno why they would want to block the light to so many rooms on the south side of the original building. Any addition taller than the lowest tier of the original building (10 storeys) will diminish the original architecture.

This is the most massing i'd be ok with:

I'm not in favor of blocking development for views but I feel like Hotel Vancouver should get an exception from the Robson Plaza.

osirisboy · #**594** Posted **Jul 4, 2024, 9:24 PM**

Just build the expansion the same as the original. Like actually, not in a cheap way!

officedweller · #**595** Posted **Jul 4, 2024, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Dunno why they would want to block the light to so many rooms on the south side of the original building. Any addition taller than the lowest tier of the original building (10 storeys) will diminish the original architecture.

This is the most massing i'd be ok with:

That's because the south side is clad in brick, not limestone, and the rooms are recessed into what would become a light well.
It should try to stay below the windows of the Panorama Roof event space/restaurant.

https://www.biv.com/news/hospitality-mar...onic-hotels-lead-lavish-upgrades-8245309

LeftCoaster · #**596** Posted **Jul 5, 2024, 7:09 PM**

Not too sad to see this one withdrawn.

The brick makes it pretty clear where the original architecture intended abutting buildings to be built to, so if and when something comes back here there seems to be a pretty good template for what to do. Essentially like Dleung's diagram except I don't necessarily agree on the need for the drop in the middle of the massing.

jollyburger · #**597** Posted **Jul 5, 2024, 9:00 PM**

I wonder if they could do a building that slots right up again the Burrard Street side of the lot but taller..

GenWhy? · #**598** Posted **Jul 5, 2024, 9:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

I wonder if they could do a building that slots right up again the Burrard Street side of the lot but taller..

Looks like you might run into a view cone issue! lol (maybe or maybe not from view cone B2)

jollyburger · #**599** Posted **Jul 5, 2024, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Looks like you might run into a view cone issue! lol (maybe or maybe not from view cone B2)

These seem to cross over at different points (I think the last three disappear if they adopt the new view cones?

3.2.1 /3.2.2 QE Park

9.2.1 Cambie Street

B2 Charleson Seawall

C2.1 Laurel Landbridge

F1.1 Choklit Park

I wonder how long until Quadreal does something with the 777 Hornby site.

Feathered Friend · #**600** Posted **Jul 5, 2024, 11:32 PM**

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B.C. expands Downtown Eastside community building plans

By Cole Schisler and Hana Mae Nassar
Posted July 5, 2024 3:19 pm.

ousing Minister Ravi Kahlon says the redevelopment of 301 East Hastings Street was initially planned in 2018. At the time, the plan called for 75 units of affordable housing on one lot.

Now, however, he says the project is much bigger.

“We are now assembling four parcels next to 301 to build a main floor of health-care services for people within the community, as well as close to 200 units of housing in the community,” he explained Friday.

One of the additional pieces of land was donated by the 625 Powell Street Foundation, the province notes.

The minister says the province, BC Housing, and Vancouver Coastal Health — which owns 301 East Hastings — will work with the City of Vancouver for an application to redevelop the site this coming fall.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/07/05/downtown-eastside-community-housing-plan/

It's been several years since the redevelopment of the Salvation Army Temple was last floated, but it's now back on the agenda.