I love the glass on Citi too but whats up with the balconies?? Please tell me its at least mixed-use. Can't we put up a single tower in the lowermainland thats an office building??
Yeah motif turned out just great. Citi is fine but nothing special... just a tall office park looking building.
I'm really excited for the Brentwood area, It could be a nice little area if the next wave of development creates a better urban fabric than exists right now. The existing towers are deceptive, as the street life of the area is actually quite poor. The only area that really has a nice neighbourhood feeling to it the tandem development on Dawson. Other than that its very tower in the park dominated and The Lougheed certainly doesn't help.
passed this play the other day - used to be a prison or jail of some type... its view is a newly built light industrial park on marine drive... not the greatest neighbourhood
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Country living, city life
McGregor residents will enjoy more than 5,500 square feet of parkland per home
By Claudia Kwan, Vancouver Sun
A scale model of the McGregor new-home development in Burnaby shows the layout of the 12-acre parcel.
Photograph by: Steve Bosch, PNG, Vancouver Sun
When you're travelling along the road through Burnaby's Big Bend neighbourhood, you might spot some big box stores, a church and some produce farms.
It takes a considerable craning of the neck -- or a slight detour -- to find McGregor, Amacon's latest development.
At the moment, the 12-acre property seems fairly serene. The heritage McGregor house, completed in about 1905, is set back nearly 500 metres from the cars swooshing by on Marine Way. A number of two-storey industrial warehouses, also owned by Amacon, are in a buffer zone near the road. The rumble of traffic is faintly audible from the home's wide veranda, but it's surprisingly quiet overall.
Initial work has begun on the site to prepare it for construction. When all three phases of the project are complete, a series of small townhouse buildings (with a total of 96 homes), will dot the landscape, amid a parklike setting of trees and cycling and pedestrian paths. A huge community garden patch will take advantage of the rich boggy soil that produces vegetables for farms just down the street. A stream that serves as fish habitat will wind its way through the property from a large pond to the east of the original house.
The pond and waterways were originally used to move logs to market in the late 19th century, when the site was known as the Royal City Mills logging camp. Now the stream will likely provide hours of amusement and enjoyment for the young families envisioned as the buyers for McGregor.
The home was built for Duncan McGregor and his wife, Margaret, who carved a palatial estate from the original 160-acre parcel, with manicured gardens, a tennis court, fruit orchards and a barn. Their son Douglas grew up riding ponies and horses, rambling on the grounds with pointer dogs, before growing up and attending Burnaby South secondary school.
Duncan McGregor died of cancer in 1928, and the family fell on tough financial times after the Great Depression hit. His widow Margaret leased out the property, but the municipality of Burnaby eventually took it for nonpayment of property taxes.
The provincial government bought the property and used it for decades as a boys' rehabilitative home known as New Haven. It was ultimately sold to Amacon.
Four apartments will be located in the heritage home, above communal amenities such as a games room and library, and a heritage barn from the early 20th century will also remain on the property.
The first phase is scheduled to be ready for occupancy by the summer or fall of 2011, with the remaining homes ready over the year after that.
Yeah, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who wants to live in Annacis Island, with the sewage processing plant there. I remember having to drive there to get a package since the courier wouldn't drop it off, and it's a nasty place.
If only there was some form of ped. bridge going over the north arm in this area. This area would be really conveniently located being so close to the quay, but it's so cut off.
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there is plans for a ped bridge i thought - there is also talk of a ferry service like the ones in false creek linking the quay to this rapidly developing area of queensborough
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