Burnaby Updates - Page 24

Klazu · #**461** Posted **May 16, 2015, 9:03 PM**

Interesting listing - thanks!

VarBreStr18 · #**462** Posted **May 17, 2015, 4:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by KPELLY

I found it pretty Interesting looking at what could be the tallest towers in the metro by 2017/18.

Potential top 10 (in 2017/18ish):
Vancouver: 3 (SL, Trump, Skyfront)
Burnaby: 6 (BW1, BW2, BW3, Altus, SS2, SS4)
Surrey: 1 (3 civic)

Potential Top 20:
Vancouver: 8 (above plus: Wall, Georgia, VH, Shaw, Royal)
Burnaby: 9 (above plus: Sovereign, Stratus, Arius)
Surrey: 3 (above plus: HP1, PA)

Potential Top 50 (too many to name):
Vancouver: 30
Burnaby: 13
Surrey: 6
Coquitlam: 1

I'm sure that the top 100 would favour Vancouver even more than the top 50, but near the top Burnaby (Brentwood in particular) will have a good share of the upper end of the top 50 in the metro (and by default BC). However, I could may have missed some.

Why is there such obsession with height ?

KPELLY · #**463** Posted **May 17, 2015, 1:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

Why is there such obsession with height ?

I wouldn't characterize making a list as having an obsession with height...

Only one out of my five favourite buildings in the metro made it on that top 10.

osirisboy · #**464** Posted **May 17, 2015, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

Why is there such obsession with height ?

It's not Ocd. Tall buildings are cool. Don't over think it. After all you are on a skyscraper forum

Metro-One · #**465** Posted **May 17, 2015, 1:44 PM**

The same way length / span is an important feature when discussing and measuring bridges, age is important aspect when talking about heritage structures, etc... height is an important feature when discussing skyscrapers.

It is not the be all and end all in every skyscraper discussion, or what necessarily makes a building great but it is an interesting exercise to see where the tallest buildings are in a region and how they stack up to one and other.

Vin · #**466** Posted **May 17, 2015, 7:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

Why is there such obsession with height ?

Please visit Groundscraperpage.com for your viewing pleasure

MR. Cosmopolitan · #**467** Posted **May 17, 2015, 11:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

Why is there such obsession with height ?

Peni...i...I don't know why really...

Just kidding

VarBreStr18 · #**468** Posted **May 18, 2015, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

It's not Ocd. Tall buildings are cool. Don't over think it. After all you are on a skyscraper forum

i sparked so many interesting comments. I guess what i am trying to point out is that a 145 meter building is every bit skyscraper as a 150 meter building. They are all skyscapers as far as I am concerned. Not a groundscraper just because it is shy of the 150 meter. lets put an end to this remark now

Klazu · #**469** Posted **May 20, 2015, 3:53 AM**

This is already 3 weeks old, but the last view of Brentwood I could capture from our old place.

Kisai · #**470** Posted **May 23, 2015, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kisai

This property has now been demolished.

Polygon Homes does not yet have a listing on their website for what they're developing. Refer back to https://burnaby.civicweb.net/document/15...?handle=9BB392184B084A4F851714442F86079A

Polygon Homes "Midori", 6579 Malborough Ave, Burnaby

Still no information on their website.

Civicweb has a single reference to it in here:
https://burnaby.civicweb.net/document/15...4#search="Midori"&Record=0

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Midori Residences (Rezoning
Reference #13-14).

Dated for in 2 days. However this document is referring to rezoning the neighboring south end of the block along Imperial between Marlborough and Dunblane.

Sheba · #**471** Posted **May 23, 2015, 5:16 PM**

It's on Burnaby's Major Development Projects page, although the info is old (I don't know that they actually updated the info on the latest version - it looks more like they copy / pasted it and changed the date at the top of the page). Copied from the pdf:

REZ # 13-14, 6592/6650 Dunblane Avenue and 6579/6611 Marlborough Avenue
Construction of a high-rise residential tower with townhouse component, 253 residential units

officedweller · #**472** Posted **May 26, 2015, 9:51 PM**

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Vancouvermarket.ca notes that the parcels between MetroPlace and Silver have been sold.

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2015/05/13/prime-metrotown-site-sells-in-38-7-million-deal/

http://www.londonpacific.ca/Opportunities/listing_details_ed9c9fe7-42f4-4c5f-bc0c-de6ef35c79fe.aspx

http://belfordproperties.ca/our-projects/silver-avenue-project/

It's the site of that "Sail" proposal a while back:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6669301&postcount=300

They followed up yesterday with:

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The proposal is to rezone the site for high-density development utilizing the RM-5s designation. Details include:
◾Two highrise towers (41-storeys on Beresford and 26-storeys to the South)
◾Low-rise townhouse, retail, childcare and strata office components
◾479 residential units
◾Total density of 6.36 FAR (5.0 FAR residential, 1.36 FAR commercial/institutional)
◾731 parking stalls

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2015/05/25/two-tower-project-planned-for-metrotown-site/

MetroPlace is 46 storeys and Silver is 38 storeys - so right smack in the middle in terms of height (assuming no feature roof?)

Klazu · #**473** Posted **May 27, 2015, 2:47 AM**

That corridor of towers is going to look ridiculously good!

red-paladin · #**474** Posted **May 27, 2015, 7:29 AM**

O.o

chum8888 · #**475** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 8:28 PM**

It looks like construction for the Concord Brentwood Presentation center (located within the Sears at Metrotown) is being constructed right now to be finished sometime in the fall (As I was told).

It will be interesting to see what they will have in the first phase as we are looking to purchase in the Brentwood area. Lots happening in the fall as Ledmac will probably start selling Escala and the Third towers of both The Amazing Brentwood and Solo may go on sale as well.

officedweller · #**476** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 9:31 PM**

So that suggests that the Concord Pacific purchase of its interest (fee sinple/ground lease/whatever) of the Sears Metrotown site has completed?

chum8888 · #**477** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

So that suggests that the Concord Pacific purchase of its interest (fee sinple/ground lease/whatever) of the Sears Metrotown site has completed?

I think so. The lady I talked to at Sears was unsure what Concord was going to do with the store later on. She was hoping that any future development would include a revamped store.

VarBreStr18 · #**478** Posted **Jun 3, 2015, 4:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by chum8888

It looks like construction for the Concord Brentwood Presentation center (located within the Sears at Metrotown) is being constructed right now to be finished sometime in the fall (As I was told).

It will be interesting to see what they will have in the first phase as we are looking to purchase in the Brentwood area. Lots happening in the fall as Ledmac will probably start selling Escala and the Third towers of both The Amazing Brentwood and Solo may go on sale as well.

Kind of odd to have a presentationn center miles away from the actual site. Is the Concord Brentwood site the same as the Dragonwood redevelopemt at Brentwood by Concord Pacific

red-paladin · #**479** Posted **Jun 3, 2015, 4:10 PM**

Perhaps since they own the site, and there is empty space there, they are planning to use it as a sales centre for a string of their developments.

TourOdeon · #**480** Posted **Jun 6, 2015, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

Kind of odd to have a presentationn center miles away from the actual site. Is the Concord Brentwood site the same as the Dragonwood redevelopemt at Brentwood by Concord Pacific

This is the Concord Pacific's way of selling their developments. In fact, MET 1 & MET 2's sales centre had been located in Downtown the entire time.
http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/11362...kes-down-burnaby-condo-ads-in-vancouver/