Rogers Arena Complex | 104m, 100m, 97m | U/C & Proposed - Page 45

mcminsen · #**881** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 4:20 AM**

For the first time in a very long time today I walked from the Dunsmuir viaduct to the Georgia viaduct on the elevated walkway on the west side of Rogers Arena.

June 1 '15, my pics

Looking North

Vin · #**882** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 6:26 PM**

Very nice! Without the viaducts, the urban landscape of this area would be very generic, hecka boring. Love the layered structures of walkways/roads at the moment. Sure hope this place is always maintained nice and clean.

osirisboy · #**883** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 7:12 PM**

Yes!! Looks great joining up to the viaduct. Such a good piece of infrastructure

mcminsen · #**884** Posted **Jun 5, 2015, 10:13 AM**

I just noticed yesterday that there are little lights embedded in the new sidewalk.

June 4 '15, my pics

trofirhen · #**885** Posted **Jun 5, 2015, 12:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

Very nice! Without the viaducts, the urban landscape of this area would be very generic, hecka boring. Love the layered structures of walkways/roads at the moment. Sure hope this place is always maintained nice and clean.

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Yes!! Looks great joining up to the viaduct. Such a good piece of infrastructure

Yes, all this looks good, joining up with, and integrating to a degree, the Viaducts themselves. (

) ... gonna make it all the more difficult for the Viaduct Haters to rip them out !! (hehe)

mcminsen · #**886** Posted **Jun 7, 2015, 8:30 AM**

Looks like the surface texture will help the visually impaired avoid wandering out into the area where the vehicles will be coming and going.

And the underside, the true ground level in the second pic. I wonder if that's a gym upstairs from the service lobby entrance.

June 6 '15, my pics

mcminsen · #**887** Posted **Jun 7, 2015, 10:29 AM**

Here's an update on the south tower construction. Not far to go and it will be at ground level.

June 6 '15, my pics

WarrenC12 · #**888** Posted **Jun 7, 2015, 1:42 PM**

Will the 2nd tower also be market rental?

officedweller · #**889** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 9:47 AM**

I think so, yes.

SFUVancouver · #**890** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 6:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Will the 2nd tower also be market rental?

Yes, all three of the currently approved towers, including the two that are actively under construction, are rental for their residential components. A fourth tower is notionally planned for the Rogers Arena site and it would straddle the SkyTrain guideway just before it crosses Expo Blvd. That's far and away the most complex of the four towers and it has not been officially proposed. I think the City has an expectation that it would incorporate an elevated pedestrian extension of Stadium-Chinatown station to help simplify pedestrian flows across Expo Blvd to access the station. That will be a complicated project, so I can see Aquilini keeping it on the back burner for the foreseeable future, plus ~1,000 rental units (if I recall correctly) in the three towers need to be absorbed by the market to start bringing in revenue to repay their investment and I can see them wanting to clear some of their balance sheet before proceeding with a forth. Incidentally, does anyone know if there is a view cone height limit for the Rogers Arena site?

Klazu · #**891** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 7:36 PM**

I would think the market is happy and quick to absorb 1000 new rental units in Downtown. I hope the fourth tower would be a crown to the whole area. All the current towers are appreximately the same height and nothing sticks out (besides BC Place).

officedweller · #**892** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 8:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Incidentally, does anyone know if there is a view cone height limit for the Rogers Arena site?

Probably the City Hall view cone and maybe QE Park view cone:

http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/views/viewcones/91.htm

http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/views/viewcones/3.htm

domusile · #**893** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 8:30 PM**

floorplans for rental suites are now available on the site

http://aquilinicentre.com/west-tower/

Klazu · #**894** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 10:42 PM**

Wow, did I count 18 units on one floor? They better have at least 3 fast and reliable elevators...

domusile · #**895** Posted **Jun 8, 2015, 11:28 PM**

I counted 16. But still you would have to think they did 3 elevators

osirisboy · #**896** Posted **Jun 9, 2015, 3:10 AM**

I counted 18 too. Big. That's good

officedweller · #**897** Posted **Jun 9, 2015, 11:48 PM**

It looks like there are 3 elevators - 2 on one side and 1 on the other? That's weird.

s211 · #**898** Posted **Jun 10, 2015, 12:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

It looks like there are 3 elevators - 2 on one side and 1 on the other? That's weird.

I suppose an innovative way to work within a dicey floorplate. Three elevators side-by-side would have cut too much across the small plate. They will certainly need every possible elevator, though, with so many units per floor.

mcminsen · #**899** Posted **Jun 25, 2015, 2:52 AM**

Looks like they dug up the older sidewalk at the Georgia viaduct level just outside gate 8 of the arena.

June 24 '15, my pics

mcminsen · #**900** Posted **Jun 25, 2015, 4:31 AM**

Here's the south tower today as seen from the Georgia viaduct.

June 24 '15, my pics