Downtown Vancouver Updates II - Page 119

jollyburger · #**2361** Posted **Aug 14, 2026, 9:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

I would think the separation is unknown and the wider amount shown would be to support the present application.
West facing views would also usually be preferred.
There are also 2 lots between the Listel project and this one.
Those could be redeveloped separately.
I think madog222's reasoning on keeping the core out of the way makes the most sense.

But those two buildings are currently on a single lot which is only 40 metres wide so that would only support a single tower? They would need a 12.2m setback against each interior property line.

Changing City · #**2362** Posted **Aug 14, 2026, 9:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

But those two buildings are currently on a single lot which is only 40 metres wide so that would only support a single tower? They would need a 12.2m setback against each interior property line.

I don't think they need to leave 12.2m from the Listel residential tower, because that's already going to be 80' from the property line. To get an 80' separation on the middle lot, from the proposed tower at 1394, they would need more than 12.2m, as despite the proposed smaller floor plate than the theoretical 5,500 sf in the guidelines, and moving the tower as close to the street as they can, they still only leave something like 20' to the middle kproperty. A tower built on that site would be offset, and closer to the Listel than to the proposed tower, and meet the guidelines just fine.

officedweller · #**2363** Posted **Aug 17, 2026, 6:02 AM**

I finally remembered to take a pic of the Scotia Tower signs on the other sides. Here's east and north by me today:

jollyburger · #**2364** Posted **Aug 17, 2026, 11:11 PM**

Park Place lobby renovations/new restaurant

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/park-place-office-tower-vancouver-lobby-renovation-new-restaurant

whatnext · #**2365** Posted **Aug 17, 2026, 11:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Park Place lobby renovations/new restaurant

Hmm, perhaps a location for Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen" might be in order given the address!

Vancouver_Highrise · #**2366** Posted **Aug 18, 2026, 1:05 AM**

It’s going to be a King Taps

nothing exciting unfortunately. Overflow for Cactus Club

jollyburger · #**2367** Posted **Aug 18, 2026, 1:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vancouver_Highrise

It’s going to be a King Taps

nothing exciting unfortunately. Overflow for Cactus Club

Probably makes more sense than the West Georgia spot they were originally going to take at Royal Centre. Some guy on Tiktok said the Toronto financial district location does $13 million revenue a year.

officedweller · #**2368** Posted **Aug 18, 2026, 5:45 PM**

Royal Centre reno was supposed to have a Glowbal restaurant called Gigis but now will be a Moxies?

jollyburger · #**2369** Posted **Aug 18, 2026, 11:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Royal Centre reno was supposed to have a Glowbal restaurant called Gigis but now will be a Moxies?

Gigis was 8000 sq feet/220 seats/large patio

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/food-...r-restaurant-concept-gigis-2026-10540648

I mean if it's not King Taps I guess it could be the Gigis..

Feathered Friend · #**2370** Posted **Aug 19, 2026, 1:38 AM**

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Following Vancouver council’s stinging rebuke, the controversial 2030 Barclay proposal has returned with substantial revisions that largely address past public feedback. Yet, not even free food from Mr. Tube Steak could calm its opponents who dominated its open house.

They were a coalition of neighbourhood activists, tenants union volunteers, aspiring politicians from Team, & members of the hotel union recently accused of foreign interference. Some folks had tape recorders & seemed to hope their own bad behaviour would result in a viral clip

Key demands were now met, but it didn’t matter. That 200 hotel rooms were replaced with a mix of market, & below-market rental homes was dismissed, as were the cutbacks made to avoid shadowing Pooh Corner daycare. For some, the goal was to preserve the area as it exists today

https://x.com/City_Duo/status/2089888136398885252?s=20

urbanight93 · #**2371** Posted **Aug 19, 2026, 3:03 AM**

There we have it. People who say they care about housing use that as an excuse. Here is housing (both market and below market) being proposed and yet people are still up in arms. The hypocrisy is staggering

s211 · #**2372** Posted **Aug 19, 2026, 3:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Royal Centre reno was supposed to have a Glowbal restaurant called Gigis but now will be a Moxies?

I have to admit being very underwhelmed by the Royal Centre renovation. The office tower lobby speaks "ran out of money early in the process" to me.

giallo · #**2373** Posted **Aug 19, 2026, 5:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbanight93

There we have it. People who say they care about housing use that as an excuse. Here is housing (both market and below market) being proposed and yet people are still up in arms. The hypocrisy is staggering

There's no meeting halfway with NIMBYs. It's an impossibility. Their arguments are mostly rooted in selfishness, so there's no reasoning with them.

Just look at the four- to six-storey buildings proposed in the ill-fated Villages concept for central Vancouver. These are neighbourhoods that should have been rezoned decades ago for low-to-mid-rise housing, yet in the middle of a housing crisis, they'll still reject even the smallest increases in density if it means they have to share their roads and parks with anyone else, even if you argue that someone else could be their son, daughter or grandchildren.

griswold · #**2374** Posted **Aug 19, 2026, 5:40 PM**

There's already several towers in that area anyway. If they complain about this then you know they just don't want anything built period, even though there's another 20 story being built just a few blocks away

officedweller · #**2375** Posted **Aug 19, 2026, 7:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Gigis was 8000 sq feet/220 seats/large patio

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/food-...r-restaurant-concept-gigis-2026-10540648

I mean if it's not King Taps I guess it could be the Gigis..

Could be.
Park Place's reno wasn't public at the time.

officedweller · #**2376** Posted **Today, 12:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Park Place lobby renovations/new restaurant

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/park-place-office-tower-vancouver-lobby-renovation-new-restaurant

I can't make out this rendering (esp. the tower in the background). Looks like botched AI sketch.
I assume its the main entrance and the cascading skylight is hidden by that beam.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/park-place-office-tower-vancouver-lobby-renovation-new-restaurant

https://www.spacelist.ca/listings/919305/bc/vancouver/for-lease/office/1590-666_burrard_street

The interior ceiling looks lower than the original (could be perspective though).
Like a lot of lobby renovations, the "volume" of the space has been lost by chopping it up (maybe for the new restaurant) and adding decorative features.
Looks like the polished pink granite on the columns might be sandblasted or replaced by rougher surface granite.
The flooring removes the pink granite.
They are also adding curves (in the lobby) to a building that doesn't have a single curve in the exterior architecture.
I'm surprised they didn't round out the columns with cylindrical cladding.
It's like they hired the designers from Bentall 6 (which does have curves) and said "rinse and repeat".

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/park-place-office-tower-vancouver-lobby-renovation-new-restaurant

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/park-place-office-tower-vancouver-lobby-renovation-new-restaurant

Here's the current state of the lobby.
I think a wooden slat ceiling would have looked good.

https://www.spacelist.ca/listings/919305/bc/vancouver/for-lease/office/1590-666_burrard_street