General Vancouver Development Updates II

[dleung]

Originally Posted by officedweller

From Strand twitter Oct 7, 2025:

The Collingwood
(Dunbar south of 41st Ave.)


Roof framing is now underway at The Collingwood, with roofing to commence in the coming weeks.
Preparation for window installation is ongoing across the building, as we continue to bring The Collingwood to life in the iconic Dunbar neighbourhood.
https://x.com/Stranddev/status/1975323150973063208

From Strand twitter Sept 18, 2025:

The Elms
(Granville south of 41st Ave.)


It’s been a season of rapid progress at The Elms, with masonry and cladding well underway on the exterior.
Coming soon to Vancouver’s coveted Westside, join the priority list today for updates on new rental homes in Kerrisdale.
https://x.com/Stranddev/status/1968798035799949409

The West Side won't be so coveted when it loses its tree canopy for these unremarkable buildings

I'm a little sad that this house got demolished:



I'm also not a fan of building so close to the street in a residential area, which makes it hard to maintain mature trees for hiding ugly filler buildings. It's one thing if it's a retail street, but this is especially bad for arterials like Granville (the Elms project) where units have no sound buffer from the traffic

[madog222]

3310-3350 Fraser

19-storey mixed-use mass timber tower with 200 social housing units and 4,531sf of office space at grade.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=274355455

[madog222]

Vancouver council to consider plan to develop $411 million worth of city-owned land into rental units

City of Vancouver staff want council to approve a deal that would give a newly formed city-owned development corporation $411 million worth of land in exchange for shares in the company.

Brad Foster, director of the Vancouver Housing Development Office, said council had earlier directed staff to find a way to develop six city-owned sites into rental housing through his office.

The development lots are located along the 3900-block of Main Street, the 8300- and 8400-blocks of Granville Street, and Pacific Street near the Granville Bridge, and in the vicinity of 2400 Kingsway, the intersection of Main and Terminal, and the intersection of Pacific and Hornby.

Foster said those sites could be used to develop around 4,000 rental units, with any rental profits going into city coffers.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...llion-worth-city-owned-land-rental-units

Properties are:
-3981-3987 Main
-8324-8460 Granville
-One of the Granville Loops sites (a guess)
-2400 Kingsway - Rezoning already submitted.
-1510 Quebec & 1505 Main - Rezoning already submitted.
-Burrard & Pacific - Rezoning already submitted.

The total of 4000 units leaves around 1200 across the three unsubmitted sites.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by madog222

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...llion-worth-city-owned-land-rental-units

Properties are:
-3981-3987 Main
-8324-8460 Granville
-One of the Granville Loops sites (a guess)
-2400 Kingsway - Rezoning already submitted.
-1510 Quebec & 1505 Main - Rezoning already submitted.
-Burrard & Pacific - Rezoning already submitted.

The total of 4000 units leaves around 1200 across the three unsubmitted sites.

They said it's three lots on the Granville Loops sites.



A, B & D

https://council.vancouver.ca/20251021/documents/r1.pdf

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by madog222

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...llion-worth-city-owned-land-rental-units

Properties are:
-3981-3987 Main
-8324-8460 Granville
-One of the Granville Loops sites (a guess)
-2400 Kingsway - Rezoning already submitted.
-1510 Quebec & 1505 Main - Rezoning already submitted.
-Burrard & Pacific - Rezoning already submitted.

The total of 4000 units leaves around 1200 across the three unsubmitted sites.

Defeated for failing to get 2/3 majority.
7 to 4

Plan for new municipally-owned, for-profit real estate development company
rejected by Vancouver City Council
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouve...real-estate-development-company-rejected


1405 Main Street and 1510 Quebec Street

Meanwhile Hive posted a rendering of the Main & Terminal towers:


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouve...real-estate-development-company-rejected


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouve...real-estate-development-company-rejected

[djh]

Vancouver General Hospital Redevelopment


I received a really interesting flyer through the post today, from Vancouver Coastal Health. It highlights the planned future complete redevelopment of the VGH campus.

Wow.

I searched the forum to see if there's a thread about this already but couldn't find anything, although the discussion does seem vaguely familiar. If there is one, please point me towards it. If not, this definitely deserves its own thread.

Here's a link to the preliminary plans.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Defeated for failing to get 2/3 majority.
7 to 4

Plan for new municipally-owned, for-profit real estate development company
rejected by Vancouver City Council
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouve...real-estate-development-company-rejected

Not a bad thing. By definition market housing can and should be provided by the market. Governments should be using the advantage of owning land to build social/subsidized housing.

[madog222]

Originally Posted by djh

Vancouver General Hospital Redevelopment


I received a really interesting flyer through the post today, from Vancouver Coastal Health. It highlights the planned future complete redevelopment of the VGH campus.

Wow.

I searched the forum to see if there's a thread about this already but couldn't find anything, although the discussion does seem vaguely familiar. If there is one, please point me towards it. If not, this definitely deserves its own thread.

Here's a link to the preliminary plans.

I have moved this to the general development thread and fixed the fink.

Nope, there hasn’t been any discussion on this yet. It will definitely deserve its own thread.

Here's the layout following the third and final phase as presented.


Image from Vancouver Coastal Health

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by djh

Vancouver General Hospital Redevelopment

Yes, definitely new, thanks.

At first I thought - wow, they're demolishing the Heather Pavilion...
THEN, I saw the longer term plans to demolish the Centennial Pavilion (no brainer, I guess) and Pattison Pavilion!

I guess if there'll be a park at Laurel St., there won't be a tunnel from the Oak-VGH M-Line station.

Here's the staging:


https://ehq-production-canada.s3.ca-cent..._20251003-VCH-VGH-Rezoning-PPT-FINAL.pdf

[hollywoodnorth]

Originally Posted by djh

Vancouver General Hospital Redevelopment


I received a really interesting flyer through the post today, from Vancouver Coastal Health. It highlights the planned future complete redevelopment of the VGH campus.

Wow.

I searched the forum to see if there's a thread about this already but couldn't find anything, although the discussion does seem vaguely familiar. If there is one, please point me towards it. If not, this definitely deserves its own thread.

Here's a link to the preliminary plans.

wow replacement (tear down) of the Jim Pattison pavilion Tower on site.

thx for the link.

[jollyburger]

I saw some councillor meetings on that in their calendar recently but I assumed it was with the housing developments next to the campus.

I wonder if this does anything to help with the helipad approach restrictions along Broadway? If the helipads were based on the southern towers they would be 26 storeys or so high?

[officedweller]

Copied from other General thread...

Originally Posted by seamusmcduff

I always assumed this one on commercial drive would be value engineered, but this is another level

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/800-commercial-dr-2

Well, I could see the exterior breezeways causing leakage or potentially structural problems in the future, so I'm not surprised that's gone.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by djh

I searched the forum to see if there's a thread about this already but couldn't find anything, although the discussion does seem vaguely familiar. If there is one, please point me towards it. If not, this definitely deserves its own thread.

Well, the presentation says there is no current redevelopment plan.

I'm aware of one that they are considering but it's more of a large scale renovation.

[madog222]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

I saw some councillor meetings on that in their calendar recently but I assumed it was with the housing developments next to the campus.

I wonder if this does anything to help with the helipad approach restrictions along Broadway? If the helipads were based on the southern towers they would be 26 storeys or so high?

It shows a potential new helipad on the phase 1 building.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

wow replacement (tear down) of the Jim Pattison pavilion Tower on site.

thx for the link.

Isn't that one of the newer buildings on the site? Despite the fact it took 15 years to open!

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

I saw some councillor meetings on that in their calendar recently but I assumed it was with the housing developments next to the campus.

I wonder if this does anything to help with the helipad approach restrictions along Broadway? If the helipads were based on the southern towers they would be 26 storeys or so high?

The document says a new helipad might be located on the new Emergency Building, which would be the first phase of redevelopment. That's to the east of the existing Emergency Department, (replacing the Research Pavilion). There would be no point in putting it on the southern towers - it needs to have a direct elevator connection to A&E.

[jollyburger]

Aren't the H boxes on top of the buildings for potential helipads?

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Aren't the H boxes on top of the buildings for potential helipads?

Could be, but the one on the Emergency building is the one limiting Broadway development, and that's likely to always be required. I wouldn't take the illustrations to be accurate at this stage; the text clearly identifies a possible future helipad on the Phase 1 building, and once the current Emergency building is replaced witha park, it would be the only A&E helipad.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Isn't that one of the newer buildings on the site? Despite the fact it took 15 years to open!

It's the same age as the newer St Paul's 10 storey building, (and there's another from 1983), that will be decommissioned next year. As that's phase 3 of the campus development, so it's likely to be 20+ years before it actually gets replaced.

[hollywoodnorth]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Isn't that one of the newer buildings on the site? Despite the fact it took 15 years to open!

yes. according to Google AI >>

The Jim Pattison Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) was originally the Laurel Pavilion, with its tower shell completed in 1991 but left vacant until 1996. Construction began to fully complete the building in 2001, and it was renamed the Jim Pattison Pavilion in 2000 in honor of a significant donation from philanthropist Jim Pattison. The inpatient tower officially opened in 2003, adding 459 beds.

Initial Construction:
Construction of the tower shell for what was then the Laurel Pavilion began in 1988 and was finished in 1991. The facility was mostly empty for several years.

Renaming and Completion:
In 2000, the Laurel Pavilion was renamed the Jim Pattison Pavilion. The final 12 floors were completed starting in 2001, with the province contributing $66.5 million and a $20 million private donation from Jim Pattison also supporting the project.

Full Opening:
The inpatient tower opened to patients in 2003, replacing portions of the older Centennial Pavilion.