Burnaby Updates

[gaviscon]

New Burnaby Hospital + BC Cancer (Phase 2)










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[osirisboy]

Well that’s another depressing looking hospital

[gaviscon]

EA sign not there, and there's a for lease sign. I guess those jobs erased by the mass layoffs aren't coming back..

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[Klazu]

With all the expansions to the hospital, are they adding any parking? Considering the location and how bad current parking situation is, it is incredible how there seems to be no added parking. People need to be real that most people will arrive to any hospital by a vehicle.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

EA sign not there, and there's a for lease sign. I guess those jobs erased by the mass layoffs aren't coming back..

They originally talked about two buildings but since 2022 they've always said that EA is just going into 4455 Sanderson. Colliers said earlier this year that they don't need it so it's up for sublease but it appears they'll still do some finishing work on the building to prepare it for someone else to come in.

From October 3, 2024

Site Address
CANADIAN TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD
Applicant Name
CANADIAN TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD 800 - 510 SEYMOUR ST VANCOUVER, BC V6B 3J5
Contractor Name Contractor Address
ELECTRONIC ARTS - Interior alterations and finishing to levels 2 & 3

https://www.burnaby.ca/sites/default/files/acquiadam/2024-10/October-3-2024.pdf

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Klazu

With all the expansions to the hospital, are they adding any parking? Considering the location and how bad current parking situation is, it is incredible how there seems to be no added parking. People need to be real that most people will arrive to any hospital by a vehicle.

Phase one had four levels of new parking?

Phase two is "two (2) levels of underground parking (with approximately 248 new parking stalls)"

This report says 356 new parking spots overall

https://pub-burnaby.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=50971

[Klazu]

Thanks! I wasn't aware of said numbers and it didn't appear like they were excavating all that much with the expansion, but I am happy to stand corrected, as that's an improvement then.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

Well that’s another depressing looking hospital

At least it's not gaudy.
I think it's better than the additions to Royal Columbian or Surrey Memorial.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by officedweller

At least it's not gaudy.
I think it's better than the additions to Royal Columbian or Surrey Memorial.

I think it was the (not yet built) Cloverdale hospital that I filled in the survey for commenting that it should be kept simple vs all the tacky gaudy details they were throwing at it. This looks simple so yeah I don't mind it - after all it is a hospital and not some fancy hotel.

Originally Posted by Klazu

With all the expansions to the hospital, are they adding any parking? Considering the location and how bad current parking situation is, it is incredible how there seems to be no added parking. People need to be real that most people will arrive to any hospital by a vehicle.

You always seem to be predicting carmageddon. I've travelled to VGH, Burnaby General, Royal Colombian and Surrey Memorial by transit - it's really not that difficult. Once they put some variety of BRT / RapidBus on Willingdon it'll be even easier as people will be able to get off at a BCIT stop and either walk or take a short ride on the 25 bus. Just because you drive everywhere and can't imagine any other options doesn't mean that everyone else does too.

[Migrant_Coconut]

Most people, by that logic, will be arriving by ambulance, and parking spaces for those are guaranteed.

Originally Posted by gaviscon

EA sign not there, and there's a for lease sign. I guess those jobs erased by the mass layoffs aren't coming back.

They're moving to the ex-MEC HQ at VCC-Clark.

[giallo]

^ EA is now fully operational there (VCC). I see lots of meetings taking place at the ground-level offices.

[jollyburger]

Their initial lease is for five years.

From a financial perspective, The team leveraged their RFP process to drive below market lease terms in a competitive bid situation; and introduced a unique deal structure that provided a significant (18 month) up front gross rental savings to EA while still securing a short term (5 year) commitment thus allowing for initial rent relief to accommodate a staged possession combined with future lease term flexibility. In addition, the team developed long range plan for this location by securing a Right of First refusal on an adjacent site owned by PCI/Low tide which can accommodate 400,000 sf of office space in a planned build to suit office facility.

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/canada/stories/2022/12/electronic-arts

They also were using 70000 sq feet on 4260 Still Creek as flex space until they found additional studio space.

Photos of the opening from Aug 2023

https://makinteriors.ca/project/ea-great-northern-way/

[Vin]

Congratz Burnaby for yet another new solid community centre to be built: high time for a new town centre to have such a facility.

$146 million new community centre approved for Burnaby's Brentwood district
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/brentwood-community-centre-burnaby-brentwood-block-approved

[NetMapel]

Originally Posted by Vin

Congratz Burnaby for yet another new solid community centre to be built: high time for a new town centre to have such a facility.

Still need a dang public indoor swimming pool around the centre!!!

[gaviscon]

Guys, is Bosa's Brentwood West Phase 1 starting right away?

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[Changing City]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Guys, is Bosa's Brentwood West Phase 1 starting right away?

Doesn't seem likely. They're calling it Halifax and Willingdon, but they haven't started selling yet.

[jollyburger]

Puke

Burnaby Approves Polygon Emerald Place Project With 4 Towers Up To 42 Storeys

On Monday, in its final meeting of 2024, Burnaby City Council granted a third reading (conditional approval) to a multi-phased project set for the high-density Brentwood neighbourhood.

The project is being undertaken by Polygon Homes and is set for a 6.5-acre site comprised of 2300 Madison Avenue and an unaddressed site that is referred to as BC Hydro 165 Right-of-Way. The site is directly adjacent to the 41-storey Fulton House tower that Polygon completed in 2019.

The site is half a block south of Dawson Street, between Madison Avenue and Rosser Avenue, about four blocks to the southwest of The Amazing Brentwood and Brentwood Town Centre Station.

https://storeys.com/polygon-emerald-place-madison-burnaby/

[Klazu]

Yikes. They keep cramming more and more density in Brentwood to the detriment of people already living there. What an awful looking development with at least one too many tower getting built.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Once they put some variety of BRT / RapidBus on Willingdon it'll be even easier as people will be able to get off at a BCIT stop and either walk or take a short ride on the 25 bus. Just because you drive everywhere and can't imagine any other options doesn't mean that everyone else does too.

Taking TWO buses to get to a hospital, that for sure sounds like something most people would do - NOT.

Also, there is nothing to imagine here. Every hospital one visits already has their parking full every single day. Even RCH, which is the only hospital with decent transit option. You probably don't know this, taking poor man's transit everywhere, but I am speaking from plenty of experience this past few years.

Just because you transit everywhere and can't imagine any other options doesn't mean that everyone else does too.

[bardak]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Puke





https://storeys.com/polygon-emerald-place-madison-burnaby/

Burnaby is just allergic to decent urban development isn't it. It's either high density towers in parks even in "urban" areas or single family homes. If the GTA suburbs weren't somehow even worse I would say that Brentwood is the worst example of density in the country.