Downtown Vancouver Updates

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Locked In

There's some information about the east loops site in this Sun article - it's a few months old though...

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/com...ated/10076518/story.html?__lsa=3fca-6d3a

Interesting - thanks! I guess the idea about non-market rentals will not go over very well with the locals...

[vancouver604]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Interesting - thanks! I guess the idea anout non-market rentals would not go over very well with the locals...

~~great~~ more "non-market" housing in that area just what we need more of (not) At this rate vision vancouver mind as well turn St. Paul's into a new Riverview!

[jsbertram]

Originally Posted by NewWester

Olympic Legacy? Surely you're joking.

Bell (as an olympic sponsor) needed to make sure their logo outshone Telus on all the photos of downtown Vancouver. It helped being at the top of the nearly-tallest building too.

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by vancouver604

~~great~~ more "non-market" housing in that area just what we need more of (not) At this rate vision vancouver mind as well turn St. Paul's into a new Riverview!

Perish the thought

[Bankview]

Granville Strip by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

TD Towers Above by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Off Seymour by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Exchanging Uses by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Aquamarine by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Sinclair by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

To The Sky by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Overlap by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

W is for Woodwards by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Condo Cluster by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Harbourside by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

Thurlow by dyllankaufmann, on Flickr

[EdinVan]

Those are very nice photos; you have a good eye.

[Delirium]

i noticed yesterday that the city put protective fencing around the street trees at helmcken/seymour. they must be prepping to demolish the current building. this is what is planned for the site-

Photo http://changingcitybook.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1107-seymour.jpg

[vancouver604]

Originally Posted by Delirium

i noticed yesterday that the city put protective fencing around the street trees at helmcken/seymour. they must be prepping to demolish the current building. this is what is planned for the site-

Photo http://changingcitybook.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1107-seymour.jpg

~~Great, just what we need in the area more social housing~~

[logan5]

Originally Posted by vancouver604

~~Great, just what we need in the area more social housing~~

Well, if we want to eliminate our city's greatest embarrassment and restore our city's greatest neighbourhood (the DTES), social housing is going to have to be spread around more evenly. Although I believe it is still too concentrated, focusing mostly on the Metro Core.

[osirisboy]

Seriously. 3 of the 4 corners of that one intersection is social housing. Has anyone told the city that more units could be built on less expensive land ??

[SFUVancouver]

For what it's worth, 1107 Seymour (pictured above) is a privately-created rental building for lower-income residents, making it a quasi-social housing development. The project also will contain about 20,000 ft2 of office space.

1107 Seymour 'lands' the CACs from 1300 Richards and the City 'topped up' the remaining balance out of its area non-market CAC fund.

http://changingcitybook.com/2013/08/07/1107-seymour-street/

[WarrenC12]

Are the NIMBYs still challenging this in court?

I say NIMBY sarcastically since there's already plenty (too much) social housing in this area. It should be spread further around the City and Metro region.

[Darren Tate]

Originally Posted by vancouver604

~~Great, just what we need in the area more social housing~~

Ew. More poor people? There goes the neighbourhood!

/sarcasm

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Are the NIMBYs still challenging this in court?

I say NIMBY sarcastically since there's already plenty (too much) social housing in this area. It should be spread further around the City and Metro region.

I agree that too much has been concentrated in the DTES, and to a lesser degree the 'new' Yaletown / Downtown South / Burrard Slopes area, but when a project, such as 1107 Seymour, is CAC-funded, it must be built in the vicinity of where the CACs are exacted.

[Darren Tate]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Are the NIMBYs still challenging this in court?

I say NIMBY sarcastically since there's already plenty (too much) social housing in this area. It should be spread further around the City and Metro region.

Too much social housing? What are you implying exactly?

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Darren Tate

Too much social housing? What are you implying exactly?

Read my post again. I'm not implying anything, I'm saying it clearly.

[osirisboy]

In related social housings news. The relatively large former motel turned social housing on Howe between helmckem and Nelson is closed and boarded up. Anyone know what's going on?

[dreambrother808]

It's being renovated but will remain as social housing from what I have heard.

[vancouver604]

Originally Posted by dreambrother808

It's being renovated but will remain as social housing from what I have heard.

Perhaps instead of creating more social housing and shelters in Vancouver they could spread it out like to Richmond or out towards Marine Drive and Boundary or Arbutus and Marine. The city is concentrating too much social housing in the downtown core and false creek which is a problem in itself.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

In related social housings news. The relatively large former motel turned social housing on Howe between helmckem and Nelson is closed and boarded up. Anyone know what's going on?

That one is actually a nuthouse.