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[officedweller]

Is this the project near Braid Station:

The Offices at Sapperton Green

New Westminster, Canada

Size: 360,000 ft² | 35,000 m²

Completion: In Progress

Client: Bentall Kennedy

This new building has been conceived as a gateway to the community and features a light filled atrium which acts as the primary circulation spine and is the focal point of the new development. The offices are comprised of two, five story buildings which share the interstitial atrium space. The offices have been designed to LEED Gold Standard. Some of the sustainable features include on-site water retention through bio-swales and grey water collection, daylight harvesting, south and west facing sunshades and green roofs. Ventilation air from the North and South buildings is transferred through the atrium and natural stack ventilation is assisted by high level fans. The discharged air from the atrium is exhausted to the exterior heat recovery coils located at the top of the atrium space.

The overall building strategy relies on a compact building form, optimal orientation and high performance thermal envelope to effectively create a passive structure which reduces its impact on the environment. The landscape is integral with the architecture and the performance of the building, and creates a pedestrian oriented environment. A combination of green roofs and high canopy trees on the south side shade the building and cool the ambient temperature through evaporative transpiration, providing comfort for building occupants. A variety of indoor and outdoor amenity spaces act as meeting and gathering places for a variety of social activities. Four seasons of interest comprise evergreen conifers and golden grasses in the winter; flowering trees, shrubs and bulbs in the spring; ornamental grasses and wildflowers in the summer; and a diversity of fall colour.

This project was completed by Bunting Coady Architects, who merged with B+H in December 2010.

http://www.bharchitects.com/en/projects/338


http://www.bharchitects.com/en/projects/338


http://www.bharchitects.com/en/projects/338


http://www.bharchitects.com/en/projects/338

[Xrayal]

I'm confused? Is this an old proposal? Does this mean the Liberals are selling the liquor distribution site? or is this just the empty site in front of it?

[officedweller]

Posted in wrong thread?
Liquor distribution warehouse is at Rupert - and yes, the Bentall Kennedy project at 3030 West Broadway is next door to the liquor distribution warehouse (to the west of it).

[SpongeG]

is this part of the brewery district?

[BodomReaper]

Confusion everywhere - officedweller's post is correct, this is the first stage of the redevelopment of the lands around Braid Station. This phase is only for the empty grass lot fronting Braid St., but eventually the entire wharehouse will also be redeveloped. This will be HUGE. Project website: http://www.sappertongreen.com/

[red-paladin]

Oh wow!
I was wondering if that is what it was, as Bentall owns that property.
Very interesting.

[SpongeG]

why do they call it sapperton green if its at braid?

[hollywoodnorth]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

why do they call it sapperton green if its at braid?

as its in the Sapperton part of New West.

[SpongeG]

true but kinda confusing to the dumb ones such as myself

and it says in progress, there was nothing going on at the site when i last saw it

[hollywoodnorth]

new name/site/render for the Capstan Way CONCORD Richmond Project >>

http://www.concordgardens.ca

[Pinion]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

true but kinda confusing to the dumb ones such as myself

Maybe they should add a highway sign that says you are entering Sapperton.

[SpongeG]

i know sapperton but i always think of that has braid it was only a few minutes from where i lived

[BodomReaper]

Someone at Translink told me that Sapperton Green is unlikely to proceed for quite a while - Bentall realized that they've missed the cycle, and local residents are raising quite the stink about one of the main access points of the project being on Braid Street. The area already has to absorb hundreds of thousands of office square feet already between Metrotower 3, the Brewery District, and the Columbia St. tower all under construction already.

[officedweller]

Port Moody OCP news form the TriCity News:

Port Moody's development future on agenda for Tuesday's meeting

By Sarah Payne - The Tri-City News
Published: March 11, 2013 2:00 PM
Updated: March 11, 2013 3:10 PM

Port Moody residents interested in proposed development guidelines for neighbourhoods like the western gateway and Moody Centre should attend Tuesday night's council meeting.

Staff will be presenting the draft official community plan and discussing options for public consultation.

Most of the changes proposed in the draft OCP are in Moody Centre, where the city is pursuing transit-oriented design principles to increase density around the Evergreen Line stations. The vision for areas around the Ioco and Moody Central stations suggests the most significant changes within a 400- and 800-metre radii (or five- to 10-minute walking distance) of the stations, including high-rise towers.

The areas around the stations have been further broken down for detailed analysis into seven sub-groups, with descriptions and concept drawings for: Gateway, Spring Street Promenade, Heritage Commercial District, Murray Street Boulevard, Oceanfront District, Moody Centre and Ioco Station.

Some of the highlights include:

• Maximum 12 storeys for mixed-use properties in the 2000-blocks of St. George and St. Johns streets (Gateway)

• Improve Spring Street through landscaping, paving options and traffic calming, potential for public open space and encourage integrating Spring Street as part of larger redevelopment projects (Spring Street Promenade)

• Protect the heritage district by preserving existing buildings and carefully integrate new development, enhance existing treescape and slow traffic (Heritage Commercial District)

• New mixed employment land use designation for Murray Street (south side, between Mary Street and Electronic Avenue), including development of light industrial, commercial, office and residential uses with buildings up to six storeys (Murray Street Boulevard)

• Re-connect the waterfront at the Mill & Timber site with the city by creating a mixed use neighbourhood (residential, commercial, marina, light industrial, etc.) using transit-oriented design in a variety of building forms from low to high-rise of up to 28 storeys (Oceanfront District)

• High-density mixed-use development within 400 metres of the Moody Centre Evergreen station in a mix of building forms up to 20 storeys (Moody Centre)

• Consideration for mid and high rise buildings in Coronation Park (between Balmoral Drive and Guildford Way) of three to 30 storeys on certain lots, multi-family housing up to four storeys in 3300-block of Dewdney Trunk Road and in the 3200-block of St. Johns Street (around Moray Street), mixed-use developments of up to 12 storeys on the north side and up to six storeys on the south side (Ioco Station)

Another change from an earlier OCP draft should please many Newport Village residents, who voiced strong opposition to any significant height increases at the Heritage Mountain Shopping Village.

The latest draft now calls for building heights of no more than four storeys, down from the six that were suggested in an earlier draft.

Public feedback, including open houses and an online comment option, could be scheduled for April, according to the staff report.

http://www.tricitynews.com/news/197183301.html

Full OCP document here:

http://www.portmoody.ca/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=3627

Mill & Timber site drawings from Mill & Timber Products Ltd. OCP-related correspondence at the above website:


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[DKaz]

Nice plan but what about Murray-Clarke Connector? Is that officially off the radar?

[officedweller]

I think it's still in play (but no options go past the Mill & Timber site nor the former Andres Wines site like they did in the 2004 options) - there was an open house in mid February 2013. There's also a survey and a link to Nov 2012 display boards:

http://www.portmoody.ca/index.aspx?page=767

[officedweller]

Article on the Port Moody OCP:

http://www.tricitynews.com/news/198195341.html

[vanman]

From the article above:

It's just a first draft, but Port Moody's official community plan update had some on council wondering whether it spells the beginning of the end of the city's small-town character.

What the hell? Are these councillors blind or what? The precedent has already been set with nearby developments like Newport Village and Suter Brook, both of which are very well done. The time to bemoan the loss of "small town character" passed about a decade ago.

[Pinion]

If my backwards little village is any indication, many people will fight each development as being too big no matter how similar it is to dozens of developments around it.

[huenthar]

Originally Posted by vanman

From the article above:



What the hell? Are these councillors blind or what? The precedent has already been set with nearby developments like Newport Village and Suter Brook, both of which are very well done. The time to bemoan the loss of "small town character" passed about a decade ago.

They should just glance at a map of the region. The time to bemoan the loss of small town character was many decades ago when it, you know, stopped being a small town and started being a neighborhood in a sprawling urban metropolis...

or to put it another way: "Dear councillors, time for your weekly Reality check: small towns don't usually get rapid transit lines running through them..."