Downtown Vancouver Updates II - Page 61

Zepfancouver · #**1201** Posted **May 6, 2025, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Pic by me yesterday showing the mass timber addition on Beatty St.

They are going at it differently at VAHA Burrard

This afternoon - May 05, 2025 - Pics by me.

https://makeagif.com/i/W5vqUV

This YouTube video is the same as the gif

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Changing City · #**1202** Posted **May 6, 2025, 6:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

They are going at it differently at VAHA Burrard

Thanks for the pictures. I think they're doing it in a similar way - build the concrete core first, then the mass timber structure around the core, floor by floor. (On Beatty they had to tie the existing brick building into the new core before they could add the wooden floors above).

The Hive on Clark Drive / Great Northern Way did it differently, because although it's also mass timber, that doesn't have a concrete core in the same way.

officedweller · #**1203** Posted **May 6, 2025, 10:09 AM**

I think Brock Commons at UBC was also built with concrete core first.

BCIT was steel core, I think.

Feathered Friend · #**1204** Posted **May 7, 2025, 5:53 AM**

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City of Vancouver @CityofVancouver
⚠️ TRAFFIC ALERT: Drake Street - partial Crane dismantle.

📍 Full closure of Drake Street between Seymour and Richards St.
🚧 Local traffic only.

🕐 Wednesday, May 7 from 7 am - 2 pm.

Expect delays and plan ahead.

#VanTraffic

9:30 PM · May 6, 2025

https://x.com/CityofVancouver/status/1919972973597098199

C3YVR · #**1205** Posted **May 8, 2025, 2:13 PM**

New Holborn proposal:

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-parkade-vancouver-redevelopment-holborn-group

Islandtime · #**1206** Posted **May 8, 2025, 2:32 PM**

Vancouver's First Super Tall?

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Local developer Holborn Group has submitted a new formal rezoning application for a historically and economically significant redevelopment spanning two separate sites.

The proposal features four mixed-use towers, including a transformative landmark project of three skyscrapers in the Central Business District on the city block with the Hudson’s Bay parkade and low-rise office buildings and the vacant lot of the former Dunsmuir Hotel SRO. A fourth tower — a major social housing project next to Woodward’s on the southernmost edge of Gastown — is being offered as a 100 per cent gift to the City of Vancouver.

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The tallest of the trio of towers replacing almost the entirety of the 500 block of West Georgia, where the parkade is located, is proposed to reach a height of 1,033 ft (315 metres), containing 68 storeys.

By international standards, a “supertall” skyscraper is defined as a tower reaching a minimum height of 984 ft (300 metres).

http://https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-parkade-vancouver-redevelopment-holborn-group

jollyburger · #**1207** Posted **May 8, 2025, 3:15 PM**

^^ Needs it's own thread.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-parkade-vancouver-redevelopment-holborn-group

osirisboy · #**1208** Posted **May 8, 2025, 3:22 PM**

Finally

jollyburger · #**1209** Posted **May 8, 2025, 3:41 PM**

Explains the meetings councillors had at the end of last year for the HBC Parkade project update (prior to the Dunsmuir Hotel issues).

connect2source · #**1210** Posted **May 8, 2025, 3:55 PM**

Wow, just wow and about time!!

csbvan · #**1211** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:14 PM**

Sounds like a very serious proposal this time.

GenWhy? · #**1212** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:23 PM**

"a total of 1,561 homes, including 1,288 condominium homes"

Well I at least hope phase 1 is the hotel, but by the time the residential gets permits there might be demand at the prices they'll be asking.

Changing City · #**1213** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

"a total of 1,561 homes, including 1,288 condominium homes"

Well I at least hope phase 1 is the hotel, but by the time the residential gets permits there might be demand at the prices they'll be asking.

No, phase 1 is the condo towers (and the DTES non-market tower as CAC/Dunsmuir House replacement). They're not actually proposing to build the required commercial space for the site in the first phase (except some modest retail and restaurant space in the podium). After what happened at Little Mountain, and with Dunsmuir House, I'm not sure I'd accept their promise for a future hotel.

And yes, this needs its own thread.

GenWhy? · #**1214** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

No, phase 1 is the condo towers (and the DTES non-market tower as CAC/Dunsmuir House replacement). They're not actually proposing to build the required commercial space for the site in the first phase (except some modest retail and restaurant space in the podium). After what happened at Little Mountain, and with Dunsmuir House, I'm not sure I'd accept their promise for a future hotel.

And yes, this needs its own thread.

OMG phase 1 is the condo they want to start building by 2030?! Bold

Also bold to think they'll get a Public Hearing by the end of the year it seems they're saying.

Also bold they expect excavation permits by 2030 - or is this a compliant application?

giallo · #**1215** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:31 PM**

Looks......incredible.

Changing City · #**1216** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

OMG phase 1 is the condo they want to start building by 2030?! Bold

With almost no condo parking space because they have to replace the Bay Parkade's 500 spaces with a future underground public parkade.

jollyburger · #**1217** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:34 PM**

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The entire project is estimated to cost about $2.73 billion.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-tallest-public-observation-deck-vancouver-tower-new

Here's the old rezoning inquies for anyone interested

https://council.vancouver.ca/20061212/documents/tt3_BayParkade.pdf

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/2020-120-release.pdf

BIV article on the project has more details (not sure if they are new) about Dunsmuir House

https://www.biv.com/news/economy-law-pol...or-downtown-vancouver-henriquez-10629751

GenWhy? · #**1218** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

With almost no condo parking space because they have to replace the Bay Parkade's 500 spaces with a future underground public parkade.

No way! Well then I got two words.

Very bold

Those 500 stalls would be likely general public (commercial customer) paid parking?

whatnext · #**1219** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

OMG phase 1 is the condo they want to start building by 2030?! Bold

Also bold to think they'll get a Public Hearing by the end of the year it seems they're saying.

Also bold they expect excavation permits by 2030 - or is this a compliant application?

LOL, it is Holborn. 2130 maybe.

Changing City · #**1220** Posted **May 8, 2025, 4:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

No way! Well then I got two words.

Very bold

Those 500 stalls would be likely general public (commercial customer) paid parking?

It looks like it. There's a covenant on title requiring the spaces that was written when HBC sold the parkade to Holborn (over 20 years ago). I assume that even with the demise of HBC, the requirement doesn't change. Ironically, with the removal of any parking minimum requirements from the City, they could provide as much or as little as they chose, in other circumstances.