[BURNABY] PERLA & ONYX | 5900 Olive Ave | 38, 34 fl | U/C

[officedweller]

That went up fast!
The balcony glass should cover a lot of the solid panels.

Originally Posted by Lexus

The projects are now named Perla (5900) and Onyx (5869) and just passed final adoption by Burnaby council.

Perla

[Lexus]

2025, Aug 4

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[Lexus]

2025. Sep 8

Working on the crown.

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[officedweller]

This one under construction must be one of them.

Pics by me Sept 8th:

[Lexus]

2025, Oct 20

First tower is topped out and second tower - I believe that they started excavation.

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[jollyburger]

2028 completion on Onyx

[Spr0ckets]

Nice addition to the area once these get completed.

I like the vareity of tower forms and designs they're getting in that Patterson area - with the likes of the completed Central Park House with it's offset mid-tower triple-height Amenity box, Anthem's Nuvo just fronting the Skytrain line, and now these two when they get finished along with Concord's Solhouse which will bring some curves to all the rectilinear towers currently there.

I hope if the brutalist concrete lowrise at the Patterson corner just in front of the Skytrain ever gets redeveloped, it gets a true landmark tower to complement the Telus Garden's towers on the other side of Central Park and to frame the park.

[Lexus]

2025, Nov 9

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[gaviscon]

Waves Cafe down the street from here is my favourtie place to study and chill.. But it's always packed.
There will be zero seats most of the time once all these towers are completed lol
Hope we get more cafes around here.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Waves Cafe down the street from here is my favourtie place to study and chill.. But it's always packed.
There will be zero seats most of the time once all these towers are completed lol
Hope we get more cafes around here.

I was just gonna say, most of these towers will come with retail and cafes and the like at grade that should take some of the pressure from the existing retail in the area.

Particularly the ones fronting Central Blvd. and Beresford on the south and the any that might be built in the vicinity of Kingsway to the north.

[gaviscon]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

I was just gonna say, most of these towers will come with retail and cafes and the like at grade that should take some of the pressure from the existing retail in the area.

Particularly the ones fronting Central Blvd. and Beresford on the south and the any that might be built in the vicinity of Kingsway to the north.

Do you know which one will have retail?

As far as I'm aware, Central Park, Perla, and Onyx won't. Greenhouse? Solhouse?

[gaviscon]

Onyx digging underway:


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Perla.
It's gonna be so satisfying to see when this ugly mess is cleared and the sidewalk and paving is complete

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[gaviscon]

Onyx

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[gaviscon]

Always seems like they have more traffic controllers and security guards than workers working on the building itself lol.

Not much progress...


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[Lexus]

2026, Mar 21

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[Lexus]

2026, Mar 27

Crane was coming down few days ago. Probably gone by now.

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[Lexus]

2026, Apr 3

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[griswold]

This must be one of the thinnest towers in the entire province. What a strange height/width ratio.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by griswold

This must be one of the thinnest towers in the entire province. What a strange height/width ratio.

It seems to be the sort of slab block that has been developed in a few projects in recent years. There's a central core and corridor, and ten units per floor, five on each side. The towers at King George Hub has a similar arrangement. You tend to see smaller and squarer floorplates in Vancouver. There are a couple of towers Downtown that are similarly skinny - Peter Wall Yaletown for example (which is taller than Perla)


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[officedweller]

Slabs like that also avoid bowling alley suites, and should allow more window frontage per suite.