Suburban Updates - All Other Metro Vancouver Municipalities - Page 111

BodomReaper · #**2201** Posted **Apr 8, 2012, 1:01 AM**

Final update for The Shaughnessy (now complete and partially occupied):

(Really need to learn how to hold the camera straight!)

Thrusting out of the suburban mediocrity:

Overall, a pretty solid effort by the city/Onni. I can't ask for anything more from the design of the tower itself, but I'm less than thrilled with the design/quality of the townhouses fronting Lions Park and even less so with losing a large chunk of Shaughnessy St. (aka Poco's downtown strip) to a parkade wall. Now all we can hope for is that the owners of the two nearby strip-malls get inspired and put together similar projects...

vanman · #**2202** Posted **Apr 8, 2012, 1:13 AM**

I guess this must be the tower that you can see from the Port Mann, jutting out from seemingly nowhere. It threw me off guard the first time I saw it

BodomReaper · #**2203** Posted **Apr 8, 2012, 2:51 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanman

I guess this must be the tower that you can see from the Port Mann, jutting out from seemingly nowhere. It threw me off guard the first time I saw it

Can't say for sure since I haven't been on the Port Mann since this was substantially u/c, but that's quite likely. I can't think of any other recently built tall structure in the area that would be visible from the Port Mann... (other than the new bridge towers of course

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logan5 · #**2204** Posted **Apr 8, 2012, 9:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by BodomReaper

Overall, a pretty solid effort by the city/Onni. I can't ask for anything more from the design of the tower itself, but I'm less than thrilled with the design/quality of the townhouses fronting Lions Park and even less so with losing a large chunk of Shaughnessy St. (aka Poco's downtown strip) to a parkade wall. Now all we can hope for is that the owners of the two nearby strip-malls get inspired and put together similar projects...

Actually, this is why the tower/podium scheme works... cheap out on the tower part, and then make the podium half decent. Instead Metro Vancouver is tricked into thinking an all glass mid rise is superior.

East Van · #**2205** Posted **Apr 8, 2012, 11:24 AM**

Yes that is the tower you can easily see from the Port Mann. It sticks out like a sore thumb finally placing a pin point on where 'downtown' Poco is in relative terms to Coquitlam town center.

vansky · #**2206** Posted **Apr 8, 2012, 1:05 PM**

nice

Nites · #**2207** Posted **Apr 13, 2012, 2:27 AM**

Any thoughts on this building?

Surrey Village Tower
Built: 1982
Height: 49.5 meters, 16 floors

dreambrother808 · #**2208** Posted **Apr 13, 2012, 6:13 PM**

A few weeks ago, I took this photo of the new Semiahmoo Library. It's one of the more creative living wall treatments in the metro area.

from my flickr

vanman · #**2209** Posted **Apr 13, 2012, 9:24 PM**

That looks great! I would like to see more widespread use of greenwalls, especially in prominent locations.

bils · #**2210** Posted **Apr 17, 2012, 10:02 PM**

anyone have any information on this?

http://www.theprovince.com/business/Rich...st+commercial+venture/6473758/story.html

Richmond: Developer proposes to build city’s largest commercial venture

Six hotels and a trade and exhibition centre

The city of Richmond has received a developer’s proposal for what would be the city’s largest ever commercial development.

The proposed development will sit on Duck Island, which is directly west of the River Rock Casino.

It will sit on a 73-acre site and include four million square feet of commercial, retail, hotel and entertainment space.

The plan calls for six hotels and a 450,000 square foot trade and exhibition centre.

The site will be marketed as an international destination for shopping.

The site currently houses one of Richmond’s two night markets.

Details of the proposed giant development were revealed by Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie at Richmond Chamber of Commerce luncheon today.

Brodie spoke about “a multi-billion dollar wave of new residential and commercial development that is transforming Richmond’s City Centre.”

Brodie said there is currently $4 billion in new development in the city that is either under construction, being marketed or going through the planning approval process.

A news release about the mayor’s speech said: “Sparked by the arrival of the Canada Line, the Richmond Olympic Oval and Richmond’s innovative City Centre Area Plan, the new development is expected to spur population growth of 80,000 over the next quarter century, as well as a 33 per cent increase in jobs within Richmond.”

More details to come.
© Copyright (c) The Province

Zassk · #**2211** Posted **Apr 17, 2012, 11:01 PM**

Another article on the above:

http://www.richmondreview.com/news/147836365.html

Richmond site eyed as major shopping, entertainment zone

Richmond’s largest single development—19 times larger than the Richmond Olympic Oval’s footprint—is being proposed for an area of City Centre north known as Duck Island.

Jingon International Development Group has submitted an early rezoning application for 30 hectares (73 acres) of land next to River Rock Casino Resort that could feature several floating restaurants, six high-end hotels, shops, bars, clubs, theatres and marina office space.

“This is the largest single application the city has ever received, and the vision is for an international destination for shopping and entertainment, the likes of which you’d have to go to Asia...or at least Los Angeles, to see on this scale,” said Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who revealed details of the proposal at a Richmond Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday.

The mixed-use project, billed as a “major entertainment and commercial destination for the region,” is being called the Vancouver International Plaza.

Even a small ferry terminal is envisioned for the site, one that would operate between key destinations on the Fraser River.

Jingon, a Chinese developer known for high-end hotel and retail projects overseas, intends for the area to become a regional destination where walking to and through the site would be encouraged.

Buildings will be a mix of low-, mid- and high-rise, totalling four million square feet and could take many years to complete.

...

The proposal is “very preliminary,” according to city staff, and will require major infrastructure upgrades and approvals to build in an environmentally sensitive area.

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Vancouver International Plaza

•Total of 4 million square feet proposed

•Retail/entertainment: 1.58 million square feet

•Office: 1.1 million square feet

•Hotel: 870,000 square feet

•Conference: 450,000 square feet

•Marina: 300 slips

officedweller · #**2212** Posted **Apr 17, 2012, 11:32 PM**

Nice!

A Trade and Exhibition Centre sounds great! and that is a much, much better location than on the Garden City Lands (which is too far from hotels and the Canada Line)

But... I doubt there will be "highrise".

jlousa · #**2213** Posted **Apr 17, 2012, 11:48 PM**

I'd be surprised if the proposal doesn't either get shelved, or reworked to include a sizeable amount of residential by removing some of the commercial space proposed. I'd like to be wrong though.

paradigm4 · #**2214** Posted **Apr 18, 2012, 2:02 AM**

Vaporware

Zassk · #**2215** Posted **Apr 18, 2012, 3:59 AM**

More nuggets of information from the Vancouver Sun and Province articles:

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Ric...velopments+says+mayor/6474856/story.html

Quote:

Richmond's population is expected to increase 40 per cent within the next 30 years as an almost unprecedented wave of developments are slated for the city, including an enormous 28-hectare destination shopping centre adjacent to the River Rock Casino, Mayor Malcolm Brodie announced Tuesday.

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Up to $4 billion worth of new development is being proposed for Richmond, including 16 hotels totalling 2,500 rooms, 12,000 new residential units, 1.5 million square feet of office space and 2.5 million square feet of retail space.

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Richmond's population was 150,000 in 1996 and 200,000 today. By 2041, it will increase to 280,000, he said.

Most of the new population would be located in the city centre area, said Brodie, as developers have been promised higher densities if they locate close to Canada Line stations.

At present, the downtown population of Richmond is 5,500 people per square kilometre, which will increase to 11,000 per square kilometre by 2041, said Brodie.

However, he noted this is only half the 22,000 people per square kilometre found in the West End of Vancouver.

http://www.theprovince.com/business/Rich...rgest+commercial+site/6473758/story.html

Quote:

Brodie also revealed an innovative way to get a station built on the Canada Line without any money coming from TransLink, the cash-strapped regional transit authority.

“We do need the station, but TransLink has no money to build it,” he told a luncheon gathering of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.

His plan involves buyers of the 6,600 units of housing to be built in the area around Capstan and No. 3 Road to deposit $7,800 each into a fund for the station.

From that money, $25 million would be used to build the station.

VanK · #**2216** Posted **Apr 18, 2012, 8:19 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlousa

I'd be surprised if the proposal doesn't either get shelved, or reworked to include a sizeable amount of residential by removing some of the commercial space proposed. I'd like to be wrong though.

I could be wrong too but the Richmond OCP clearly states that there will be no residential in this area of Richmond north of Sea Island Way. Richmond has ample land pre-designated for high-rise residential along the No 3 Rd corridor south of Sea Island down to Granville. I would be very surprised if the City would allow residential in the subject area.

SpongeG · #**2217** Posted **Apr 27, 2012, 7:16 PM**

i don't know what this is - but its by burnaby lake sports complex - has for lease signage on it so i imagine it is either office space or retail?

pic by me apr 27

vanman · #**2218** Posted **Apr 27, 2012, 8:15 PM**

Oasis update from SSC:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

taken last week.

officedweller · #**2219** Posted **Apr 27, 2012, 8:23 PM**

Impressive!

Now they need a couple of "landmark" towers.

red-paladin · #**2220** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 2:25 AM**

We once saw a build out concept for Coquitlam Town centre that saw towers w/ podiums all around the Coquitlam Centre parking lots, and partly where the bus loop and park and ride are. There is a lot of space of redevelopment, and a lot of dumpy or low density exisiting buildings. So, I expect after the Evergreen Line, maybe in 15 years, there may indeed by some very significant towers there.