Thanks for posting! It's about time we heard some more info about this project.
Some of the other highlights that stood out for me from the link:
-development is striving for LEED silver certification
-small angled office building will be clad in coloured spandrel and LED lighting
-new plaza at Kingsway and Edmonds will include public art, a water feature, and inground LED lighting
-green roofs on top of the office building and residential amenity building
I'm very excited about this project. This will almost be as big a game changer for the area as Highgate Village.
It is amazing how much my old hood has improved in recent years. It now boasts a new library, firehall, community centre with pool as well as the 100s of units of apartments and townhouses and extensive lush landscaping throughout. Burnaby has done a fantastic job with cleaning up Edmonds.
This is a bit older render, but I don't remember seeing this before. Oh Burnaby, you crazy.
"Located on the corner of Edmonds and Kingsway (7350 Edmonds Street) in Burnaby, this dynamic new mixed use community will be the focal point of this neighbourhood."
The great thing about Edmonds is that it is not dominated by Metrotown Mall, so it should see a lot of useful retail along Kingsway and along Edmonds. Edmonds St. is especially appropriate for building a good high street as the calmer traffic flow makes it much more pedestrian friendly than Kingsway. There are plenty of opportunities along Edmonds to build apartments on sites where there are currently houses and industrial use. Hopefully the existing retail will get left alone as this is where the more interesting places will do business.
Article from the Burnaby Newsleader about the project:
Quote:
Value Village site redevelopment takes step forward
by Wanda Chow - Burnaby NewsLeader
posted Dec 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM— updated Dec 10, 2013 at 3:48 PM
The rendering shows the southwest corner of the site, currently occupied by Value Village, and a mix of small businesses on the sharpest point of the corner.
— image credit: Courtesy Cressey Development Group
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The office building would be located at the corner of Edmonds and Kingsway, while a 37-storey "feature tower" would be situated closest to that corner as a focal point of the site. A 31-storey "Kingsway tower" would be located at the southeast corner of the site, and a 28-storey "Edmonds tower" would be at the northern corner.
This is the first I've heard of this and cool! The idea of elderly housing makes a lot of sense in this neighbourhood and seems like a good idea. (Although totally not downtown New West.)
I think most of the big projects people have been talking about are the three towers planned for the riverfront in the big parking lot (slated to start maybe in 2014), the giant maybe-rental tower which will be the fourth tower for plaza88 (New West station), and the property immediately across Canarvon street which will likely be a commercial podium and a highrise. Oh and I think Elliot Street may have started digging in the last week or so as well.
Also, Holy Crap, apparently there is a proposal to turn 529 Carnarvon St into a 26 storey highrise. Which would be kitty corer to the two highrises on the bottom of sixth. (Which add to the two other half-demolished lots along sixth, and presuming that they are sites for future development, and the Royal Towers hotel, which will obviously/hopefully one day be redeveloped and sixth street looks to be a pretty tall street in the next couple decades...)
Well that's one office building the market just doesn't need.
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There appears to be a trend in Burnaby with these larger developments requiring(?) a certain amount of job space. Employment density will make Burnaby even more walkable (of course).
I sure am getting tired of seeing glass buildings though.
Article on Shape Propertioes' plans for Lougheed Town Centre:
Quote:
Lougheed Town Centre set for major transformation
by Wanda Chow - Burnaby NewsLeader
posted Dec 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Lougheed Town Centre near the SkyTrain station won't be recognizable in 20 years if early concept plans for the area become a reality.
Shape Properties Corporation has purchased four properties in the core area of the town centre, including the Lougheed mall site, and wants to redevelop the lands over time, says a Burnaby city planning report.
Shape hired James KM Cheng Architects Inc. to develop key concepts for its properties which are being incorporated into a plan for a wider area bounded by Lougheed Highway, North Road, Cameron Street and Bartlett Court, as well as lands at the eastern end of Cameron at North Road.
"It won't be a mall anymore if what they're proposing is accepted," said Coun. Colleen Jordan, chair of Burnaby's Community Development Committee, of the mall site. "Not in the sense of what we traditionally think as a whole bunch of stores joined together with a lid on the top."
Under the proposed concept plan, the commercial hub would be located at the southern end of the mall site, with anchor tenants at the current site of the Sears Outlet store on the south side of Austin Road, she said.
The land occupied by the 1962 mall and its parking lots, almost 15 hectares (37 acres), would become streets with commercial at ground level and towers on top, with all parking underground.
The concepts are the result of a review of the Lougheed Town Centre plan, last updated in 1997, to take into consideration the addition of the Evergreen Line rapid transit project to Coquitlam expected to be completed in 2016, and the city's high-density, multiple-family residential zoning categories for town centre areas adopted in 2011.
The design of streets would prioritize pedestrians, cyclists and transit-users over motorists and offer "a diversity of housing types with a broad range of affordability," the report said.
Lougheed would become a hub for transit and redevelopment similar to what Brentwood mall is turning into and what Metrotown already is, Jordan said.
At the recent public hearing for the first phase of the Brentwood mall project, she said, someone spoke of a senior who is no longer as mobile and able to get to services several blocks away. "This way when you're right there, down the elevator, there you go, your commercial services are right on the street, so to speak."
Jordan stressed the details are still sketchy as it's only in the concept stage, but under the proposal "it would not look anything like it is today."
According to the report, the Lougheed core area would include seven distinct precincts including: a transit hub and plaza; a narrower, pedestrian-friendly Austin Road high street; a north-south grand promenade connecting Cameron to the heart of the neighbourhood and the transit hub; an east-west pedestrian connection between North Road and the existing residential highrises west of Bartlett Court; projects along Cameron featuring retail at grade and housing above; a north-south pedestrian-only walkway through an outdoor, covered shopping area with restaurants; a north-south pedestrian connection along Bartlett Court with the daylit creek and large outdoor gathering space.
Shape also owns and is developing the Brentwood mall site, and while there will be similarities in design, the proposed concept for Lougheed is "even less mall-like than Brentwood," said Jordan
The area's redevelopment will provide opportunities with the developers for potentially expanding or relocating Cameron Recreation Complex and the attached Cameron library branch, she said.
"We need more recreation and the library is very small and all that sort of stuff will definitely be needed in that quadrant of the city."
Another of Cheng's concepts is to daylight a tributary of Lost Creek, which flows into the Brunette River, and have it meander through the western end of the current mall site.
As for the area itself, the biggest challenges for developers will be that it's very sloped and two major thoroughfares, Lougheed and Austin, run right through it, she said.
Unlike the Brentwood mall site, there is no single-family neighbourhood right next door which would require the highrises to be located away from them, Jordan noted. That, and the topography of the site, would likely result in the towers being spread out through the property and up to the edges.
There's also nothing Burnaby can do now that the province turned down its request to build the Evergreen line to accommodate a future station at Cameron.
"Unfortunate, but that train has left."
Change has certainly been a long time coming to this quadrant of Burnaby. Apart from a mixed-use project at the southwest corner of Cameron and North Road, there's been "limited development in the last 15 years," the report said.
Shape purchased the Lougheed mall site after it bought the Brentwood mall property in 2010.
"None of this happens without the money and the developer that's willing to take on a project that's going to take 20 years to complete," said Jordan.
The report on the preliminary concepts for Lougheed will be presented to Burnaby council in the new year. Jordan expects public consultations to start in the spring.
Can't wait to see the plans. I guess most of the anchors would be surrounding this future Austin high road.
Going to be interesting what happens to the existing mall and their anchors (Hudson's Bay, WalMart, Safeway)
I can't see WalMart fitting this vision unless it's going to be a City WalMart.
Damn Burnaby is growing crazy around its four town centres.
Too bad that Coquitlam Centre was renovated in 2001, it'd make for an amazing redevelopment/TOD like Brentwood, Station Square, etc are shaping up to be..
Preliminary Lougheed mall concepts come down the pipe
Stefania Seccia / Burnaby Now
December 18, 2013 03:33 PM
Lougheed Town Centre is headed for a major redevelopment to become the "public heart" of the community, as preliminary concepts have come forward.
The planning and building department recently released a report outlining preliminary concepts proposed for a 24.8 hectares (61.3 acres) redevelopment of the "Lougheed core area."
The proposal has similar intentions to the Brentwood mall redevelopment, by transforming the Lougheed mall area to a multi-purpose, mixed-use development that is cyclist friendly, with a transit- and pedestrian-oriented focus, to span over several phases and time.
"The preliminary concept plan for the Lougheed core area envisions a vibrant, pedestrian-oriented, transit connected, mixed-use neighbourhood comprised of different precincts, each with a distinct and unique architectural and landscape expression," said Lou Pelletier, director of planning and building, in his report. "
The core area is intended to continue to fulfill a commercial function, but also expand its role and become the public heart of the growing Lougheed community." The core area is centred on Lougheed mall and is bounded by North Road to the east, Lougheed Highway to the south, Bartlett Court to the west and Cameron Street to the north.
Pelletier states the proposed core elements will include a variety of outdoor and indoor shopping experiences, cafes and restaurants, office space, and high-density residential components designed around potential new public plazas, open spaces, and tree-lined pedestrian streets.
"These changes will help create a new, high quality, integrated neighbourhood in Burnaby that will be a seamless extension of existing surrounding neighbourhoods," he states. "The area is intended to offer a diversity of housing types with a broad range of affordability."
Shape Properties, which also owns Brentwood Town Centre, recently acquired four properties within the core area of Lougheed Town Centre, including Lougheed mall. James KM Cheng Architects was chosen by Shape to develop key concepts with the city.
"The foundation for the city's community plans, including the plan for the Lougheed Town Centre, arises from a wide range of processes and community consultation efforts that have been undertaken in Burnaby over many decades," he said. "While the Lougheed Town Centre area has been long established in city plans, an intensive two-year update process was completed in 1997, based on the recommendations of a citizen-based advisory committee."
The 1997 plan was meant to help accommodate a portion of the future population growth in the city with denser multi-family housing forms, according to the report.
"This, together with the commercial and community services components of the plan, envisions the longer term transition of the existing suburban, car-oriented commercial development pattern to a more complete pedestrian- and transit-oriented area with a system of shopping streets and more diverse employment and service opportunities," he states.
In 2011, city council adopted new high-density and multi-family residential zoning categories for all the town centres.
Lougheed mall takes up about 38 acres of the 61.3-acre core area, and acts as the anchor to Lougheed's commercial centre, also characterized by older, one and two-storey retail and service commercial building, as well as several large parking lots. This area has had very little new development in the last 15 years.
The only highrise towers in the immediate area were built in 2008, on 9868 Cameron Street and 3433 North Road.
A preliminary set of principles were also outlined in the report:
-Transit hub and plaza: a new transit plaza complete with an "iconic roof" structure," on-street bus stops, shops and services, and a bike service centre.
-Austin Road high Street: a narrow, pedestrian-friendly street with bike lanes, wider sidewalks, boulevard trees and landscaping and shops.
-Grand Promenade: A north-south promenade that will connect residents from Cameron Street to the neighbourhood's heart.
-North Road edge and Cross Creek connection: a cross-site pedestrian access connecting North Road to Bartlett Court.
-Cameron Street edge: Cameron Street will have retail uses at its base with residential units above.
-Town centre pedestrian spine and galleria: A north-south pedestrian-only spine through an outdoor, covered shopping and restaurant area.
-Bartlett Court edge and Creekside open space: A green north-south pedestrian connection with a daylit creek and a "major" outdoor gathering space.
The next steps include staff undertaking an open house process to receive community and public feedback, which awaits council approve at an upcoming meeting in 2014. There's also a summary brochure, public opinion survey, newspaper notices, and website updates proposed as part of the process broken up over three phases. -
Hard Rock Casino may finally build its hotel tower if the rebranding works:
Quote:
In response to years of rumours of a hotel expansion at the Coquitlam casino, Mutti added that there are plans to add a hotel if everything falls into place.
“Phase one of our renovation is all focused on our casino and the rebranding to the Hard Rock,” he said. “If that’s successful and our numbers justify it, the hotel will be phase two. It’s already approved by the City of Coquitlam and mayor and council.” -
Though Bellevue is comparable in many ways to Metrotown, it is, predictably, automobile dependent, and is connected and crossed by the usual American freeway systems.
However, some of the more "main streets," comparable perhaps to Kingsway, have a nice IMHO sleek look here and there that, IMHO, might not look bad up here.
There are sort of touches of Westwood Blvd in LA, sort of sleek, if only here and there. Some's not as good as Metrotown, some might be a bit better.
To your judgement:
starting around point 6:00+ are the clips I'm referring to here, but of course whatever is of interest, to you. Feedback welcome and appreciated.
(if this is the correct thread )
Last edited by trofirhen; Dec 22, 2013 at 12:58 AM.
Two towers have been fully completed since the last update, so if y'all don't mind, I'm going to channel Yellow Fever here
First up: Celadon, the first tower in Polygon's Windsor Gate development.
It's nothing more than your standard conservative Polygon tower, but the base is nicely designed:
Yes, that's a sheet of blank spandrel than runs for the length of the tower. Usually Buttjes designs are more careful to avoid such things:
The adjacent Celadon House is also complete:
Pouring underway for the next few Windsor Gate towers:
The crown is subtle but noticeable throughout the Coquitlam Centre area:
Excavation is in progress for Onni's 1123 Westwood:
Intergulf's Grand Central 3 is moving along:
Shameless plug for my favorite restaurant in the Tri Cities
The three Grand Central towers together:
I think every retail space in this block of Glen and The High Street has been leased. Mostly a mixture of medical offices, hair salons, and a few eateries.
Bosa Properties' Evergreen, now one level below grade:
Across the street, Cressey's M2 is now complete:
Count me as a big fan of the decorative spire thingy!
EDIT: This Photobucket compression is disgusting. Will switch to Flickr for future hosting.
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