General Vancouver Development Updates II - Page 59

ecbin · #**1161** Posted **Mar 14, 2025, 4:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Rezoning approved...
Nice that the towers are set back at least a little bit now.

West Point Grey Safeway redevelopment into rental towers and new grocery store approved by Vancouver City Council
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4545-457...oint-grey-safeway-redevelopment-approved

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4545-457...oint-grey-safeway-redevelopment-approved

I dig it - that setback (which I'm normally opposed to) really opens up the area (sure wish Burnaby could build like this). Looks great but such a shame that it has taken this many years to get approved. I've driven by that area a few times lately and it's just a bit sad now.

officedweller · #**1162** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 5:35 AM**

On Mount St. Joseph's Hospital parking lot.

Two rental housing towers approved to replace the parking lot of Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver

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During a public hearing on Thursday night, Vancouver City Council approved the application by local developer QuadReal Property Group to build two towers — 330 ft. tall at 32 storeys and 266 ft. tall at 25 storeys — at the 1.2-acre, triangular-shaped site of 2950 Prince Edward St.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-mount-saint-joseph-hospital-rental-towers-approved

Changing City · #**1163** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 6:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by ecbin

I dig it - that setback (which I'm normally opposed to) really opens up the area (sure wish Burnaby could build like this). Looks great but such a shame that it has taken this many years to get approved. I've driven by that area a few times lately and it's just a bit sad now.

The initial rezoning application was submitted on November 14, 2023. It was revised in 2024 by 'shifting the towers further away from 10th Avenue, a reduced podium height, wrapping the retail space around the plaza edges, wider sidewalks along 10th Avenue, and adding a second underground parking entrance.' So it's been 16 months to process the rezoning, give the developer feedback on what needed to change to make it work better, receive the revised version, and get it to Council for approval. That's reasonably speedy for such a consequential project with a few things that needed to be sorted out with the design, and a fair amount of local opposition.

giallo · #**1164** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 4:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

On Mount St. Joseph's Hospital parking lot.

Great news. Hopefully, we'll see the project breaking ground soon.

osirisboy · #**1165** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 4:02 PM**

I swear I heard plans of wanting to develop this like a dozen years ago. I guess it wasn’t anything concrete.

Changing City · #**1166** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

I swear I heard plans of wanting to develop this like a dozen years ago. I guess it wasn’t anything concrete.

Safeway closed in 2018. Sun Life's Bentall Kennedy was merged with their US GreenOak subsidiary a year later. There was obviously speculation about what would be developed, but nothing was public before a design was initially published in 2022, and submitted (with a quite different design) a year later.

WarrenC12 · #**1167** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 10:52 PM**

City Centre Motel Redevelopment Approved, I didn't see this here yet:

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-centre-motel-2111-main-street-vancouver-redevelopment-approved

Can't wait for Trader Jack's

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Replacing the site’s temporary “City Centre Artist Lodge” community uses, the former motel building will be demolished for two new towers of 22 storeys and 24 storeys, with the tallest tower reaching a height of 231 ft.

There will be 446 secured purpose-built rental homes, with 230 units in the north tower and 216 units in the south tower. Based on the Broadway Plan’s prescribed ratio, at least 20 per cent will be below-market rental units (about 90 units) and the remaining 80 per cent as market rental units (356 units).

A high ratio, 40 per cent, of these rental homes will be sized for families, defined as units with two or more bedrooms. The overall unit size mix is 97 studio units, 169 one-bedroom units, 137 two-bedroom units, and 43 three-bedroom units.

The stretch of Main between Terminal and Broadway continues to develop. Plenty more dumps to replace too.

officedweller · #**1168** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 11:11 PM**

The old school at Cornwall and Cypress is half-demolished.

Migrant_Coconut · #**1169** Posted **Mar 15, 2025, 11:13 PM**

Main Street finally starting to look "main" enough. Kudos.

Changing City · #**1170** Posted **Mar 16, 2025, 5:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

City Centre Motel Redevelopment Approved, I didn't see this here yet:

I think it was on the Broadway Plan thread. That's the basis that it could be approved.

madog222 · #**1171** Posted **Mar 18, 2025, 8:07 PM**

Rezoning for the City owned site at Main & Terminal just north of the McDonald’s.

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1405 Main St and 1510 Quebec St - Application recently submitted. Staff preparing notification - To rezone from FC-1 to CD-1 to allow for the development of a 42-storey and 25-storey mixed-use rental building over a 6-storey podium with ground floor commercial and 780 market rental units under the Rental Housing on City-Owned Land Public Benefits Pilot Rezoning Policy. An FSR of 11.27 and a building height of 129.5 m (425 ft.) are proposed.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=258445561

WarrenC12 · #**1172** Posted **Mar 18, 2025, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

Rezoning for the City owned site at Main & Terminal just north of the McDonald’s.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=258445561

Wow finally. Is this the City rezoning before selling?

madog222 · #**1173** Posted **Mar 18, 2025, 9:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Wow finally. Is this the City rezoning before selling?

Nope, to be owned and operated by the City through the new Vancouver Housing Development Office. The Burrard & Pacific towers were the first proposal under this plan.

WarrenC12 · #**1174** Posted **Mar 18, 2025, 9:57 PM**

Combined with the McDonalds land that's ~1200 rentals? Good for new SPH employees.

giallo · #**1175** Posted **Mar 18, 2025, 11:37 PM**

Wow. A 42 storey building in that area will really stand out. Hopefully, the design is something good.

officedweller · #**1176** Posted **Mar 18, 2025, 11:44 PM**

If the Burrard and Pacific towers are an indication, they should be decent.
Not high design, but efficient and not bi-polar or schizophrenic wrt facade treatments.

jollyburger · #**1177** Posted **Mar 19, 2025, 12:21 AM**

I wonder if the McDonald's site tries for a higher tower?

gaviscon · #**1178** Posted **Mar 19, 2025, 3:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

Rezoning for the City owned site at Main & Terminal just north of the McDonald’s.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=258445561

Really important site, location and aesthetics-wise

madog222 · #**1179** Posted **Mar 19, 2025, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

The Clark Drive housing project

https://www.biv.com/news/economy-law-pol...vancouver-to-begin-construction-10334129

All structures gone and the bus shelter has been removed.

VanK · #**1180** Posted **Mar 20, 2025, 3:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

I wonder if the McDonald's site tries for a higher tower?

They could but at the present height / density they can build 100% market rental under the existing policy and if they went for more height and density i believe it would trigger 20% below market rental.