River District (East Fraserlands) Updates

[Metro-One]

I drive past this area often, and it is the most"middle of nowhere" location possible within the city of Vancouver.

It is going to need stronger commercial amenities and transit connections.

[SpongeG]

thanks for the pics - passed it a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see how much was already built

[hollywoodnorth]

thanks for the pics

[JonLuke]

My pleasure.

[dleung]

I honestly expected the architecture to be modern, even if a bit bland and spandrelly...

...instead of this shit:



Inferior architects and builders should not be allowed to use brick in this city

[easy as pie]

i had to double check that i hadn't clicked on a maple ridge or chilliwack thread

[logan5]

Without going back and reading all the posts, is there going to be a retail strip - and which street would it be on? Matheson is centrally located, so that seems like the best spot.

[officedweller]

3100 River Walk - a couple of stepped mid-rises - were before the DPB last week (Dec 3rd):

http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/pdf/co...k-DE416120.pdf

To the far left in this render:

Originally Posted by JonLuke

River District Update. Here is a re-post of deasine's image (original source JLousa) to give these images some context (Edit: vanman's image on the previous page provides a better illustration):

[mr.x]

Originally Posted by officedweller

3100 River Walk - a couple of stepped mid-rises - were before the DPB last week (Dec 3rd):

http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/pdf/co...k-DE416120.pdf

To the far left in this render:

Kind of unfortunate that this is being built, we should've left it as industrial.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by mr.x

Kind of unfortunate that this is being built, we should've left it as industrial.

There's a bunch of land on the Vancouver and Richmond sides of the Fraser that continues to sit empty with "for lease" signs on it. Exactly how much land providing zero value do we need?

[TwoFace]

It's a pretty good use of land from what I can see, beats the trash dumping ground that it used to be. Although the density seems really high.
Not a bad place to live, as long as your on the riverfront side.

[cornholio]

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[cornholio]

Originally Posted by TwoFace

It's a pretty good use of land from what I can see, beats the trash dumping ground that it used to be. Although the density seems really high.
Not a bad place to live, as long as your on the riverfront side.

It was the site of a lumber mill and was not redeveloped to other industrial uses for obvious reasons...rezoning a large piece of industrial land like that to residential is rather profitable, and its pretty hard to do that if the land is actually being used and shows value to the city and nearby residents.

I will have to agree with Mr.X on this one as that piece of land is A) bounded to the east by industrial B) bounded to the north by Marine dr and a large forested buffer C) the Fraser river to the south D) is at the end of Boundary road, a major north south truck route, a future bridge to connect with the 91 (I hope) and a Marine dr, a major east west truck route. E) only has a thin patch of residential land to the west at its narrowest point.

Industrial land in this location would do well imo as its in a great strategic location and well buffered from any residential units.

HAVING said that this development is going to be absolutely beautiful and I doubt anyone will be complaining about it once its done...this should be the nicest development in the city imo, if done right....just a great area.

[cornholio]

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[mr.x]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

There's a bunch of land on the Vancouver and Richmond sides of the Fraser that continues to sit empty with "for lease" signs on it. Exactly how much land providing zero value do we need?

I think anyone on here would know that I'm certainly not against development, but this project is nowhere close to the city nor a high level of public transit service. It's out in the middle of nowhere.

It may have sit empty for awhile, but that's the whole point of having industrial land zoning - to plan for the future. What's the rush?

[SpongeG]

the city loses big time in taxes as industry will just move to richmond or burnaby, surrey etc.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

the city loses big time in taxes as industry will just move to richmond or burnaby, surrey etc.

i agree so why does the city allow the rezoning to occur then? are they simply just shortsighted

[Homeowner]

Predelivery inspection happening now for units in the low rise 4 story apartments. Hearing that residents can start moving in Feb 15th

[twoNeurons]

Originally Posted by mr.x

I think anyone on here would know that I'm certainly not against development, but this project is nowhere close to the city nor a high level of public transit service. It's out in the middle of nowhere.

It may have sit empty for awhile, but that's the whole point of having industrial land zoning - to plan for the future. What's the rush?

This patch of land was turned into residential at the peak of a rising market. For the most part, residential was hot and very lucrative. It was one of the last undeveloped patches of land in the city and I'm sure that greed had a part in its conversion. It is a bit of a residential orphan, isn't it?

[logan5]

The web site says the first phase (new water) is sold out.