Vancouver Infill & Lowrise Updates Discussion

[red-paladin]

Changing City Updates ( http://changingcitybook.com/2015/04/21/main-street-2nd-avenue/ ) Posted the following:

Main Street & 2nd Avenue
Posted on April 21, 2015


Here’s a new rezoning proposed under the Mount Pleasant Plan, across the street from South East False Creek. Designed by Francl Architecture it would replace the building Maynards moved into a few years ago with 253 units, 30 of them non-market rental to be owned by the city. Here’s the view of the model along Main Street, (with 3rd Avenue on the left) and below is the render.

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[whatnext]

I was surprised to drive by W. 57th and East Boulevard and see this sign. Turns out it will be just six townhomes, but an interesting triangular site in between the tracks and St. Faiths Anglican, right across from Choices:

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[officedweller]

Here's the site plan from the General Thread from March 2013 - good to see it progressing:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Townhouses proposed for 57th and East Blvd - in the heart of the westside across the street from the Arbutus RoW and the Choices market - with retail space at the corner(!).

http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/7249cypress/index.htm



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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=6033988&highlight=57th#post6033988

[city-dweller]

Took some photos of Empire at QE on Cambie the other day.

(Links to album. If someone knows how to get google photos to directly post let me know)

Empire

Parc Elise across the street

[officedweller]

Thanks for the pics!
I've posted to the Cambie corridor thread

[mcminsen]

Here's a little infill project notice board that I saw a few days ago on Burnaby Street in the West End.



June 20 '15, my pics

[BodomReaper]

1.65 FSR in the neighborhood next to downtown - my heart breaks for this city sometimes.

On a better note, great to see Hossein Amanat active in residential projects again. For those that don't know, he designed the Azadi Tower landmark in Tehran and has been based in Vancouver for some time:


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[connect2source]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Here's a little infill project notice board that I saw a few days ago on Burnaby Street in the West End.

The sign has been up for at least 3 - 4 years, the COV Dev Application signs don't even look like that anymore, I wonder what's going on with it?

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

1.65 FSR in the neighborhood next to downtown - my heart breaks for this city sometimes.

On a better note, great to see Hossein Amanat active in residential projects again. For those that don't know, he designed the Azadi Tower landmark in Tehran and has been based in Vancouver for some time:

Originally Posted by connect2source

The sign has been up for at least 3 - 4 years, the COV Dev Application signs don't even look like that anymore, I wonder what's going on with it?

Thanks for the info.

[CanSpice]

Originally Posted by connect2source

The sign has been up for at least 3 - 4 years, the COV Dev Application signs don't even look like that anymore, I wonder what's going on with it?

They don't? There's one on the fence around the empty lot at Beatty and Nelson that looks just like this one, and it went up in the last month or so.

[officedweller]

The new ones are in colour and have a rendering of the proposed project.

[Graham_Yvr]

The 'fresh' brown paint on the front of that building tells me nothing is gonna happen any time soon. That place is a dump. Too bad.

[PopYourColla]

Got a letter in the mail regarding the Hyundai dealership on 12th and Kingsway. They want to build 4 or 5 storeys of market rentals with the dealership occupying the main floor.

[axestone]

Hyundai at 12th and Kingsway? That's a Toyota Dealership.

Do you mean the Hyundai Dealership a couple blocks down Kingsway between Guelph and St. George?

Is that a rezoning or development permit?

[PopYourColla]

Originally Posted by axestone

Hyundai at 12th and Kingsway? That's a Toyota Dealership.

Do you mean the Hyundai Dealership a couple blocks down Kingsway between Guelph and St. George?

Is that a rezoning or development permit?

Sorry, I meant the dealership on st.george.
Its a rezoning application.

[BodomReaper]

By mid-June, the exterior of Radius was mostly complete. I'll take some pics of the retail when all the fencing etc. is removed, but it looks promising.

Quite happy with how it turned out overall, especially considering that this is LedMac's first foray into urban infill lowrises and that their suburban stuff is usually junk. I think this is a case where UDP rejection resulted in an improved design.

DSC00080 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

DSC00087 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

DSC00088 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

DSC00089 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

DSC00094 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

The lane-facing side uses much cheaper materials - but it could be worse, often this type of cladding has exposed rivet heads.

DSC00105 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

The lane side is continuously like this:

DSC00100 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

Terrific paneling and trim on the 4th Ave side:

DSC00111 by Thermidoria, on Flickr

[Genauso]

Taken on Sunday (during heavy ash)

Ellis @ W43rd & East Blvd / Kerrisdale

[retro_orange]

Does anyone have info or renderings of the rental building going in at the northwest corner of Main and E 11th? Its where The Rumpus Room restaurant used to be. I tried scouring the internet a few months back to no avail.

Also it has taken FOREVER to even get this lowrise buildings parkade level done from when they finished excavating. Not to mention how long the building remained vacant before demolition . They should put up a project name or render at the project site. Its a serious scar to where previously was a very busy and popular spot.

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

Does anyone have info or renderings of the rental building going in at the northwest corner of Main and E 11th? Its where The Rumpus Room restaurant used to be. I tried scouring the internet a few months back to no avail.

Also it has taken FOREVER to even get this lowrise buildings parkade level done from when they finished excavating. Not to mention how long the building remained vacant before demolition . They should put up a project name or render at the project site. Its a serious scar to where previously was a very busy and popular spot.

I have some info.

It's going to be a 100% rental building, with a couple of commercial retail units at grade facing Main Street and wrapping the corner onto 11th. It's going to be 4 storeys in height, though I've got a hazy recollection that it's possibly 5 or 6? I seem to remember that it was going to potentially be one of the first new projects in the City of Vancouver to have been built under the revised BC Building Code rules that allows up to six storeys in wood frame. I seem remember something about it being taller than your standard C2 mid-rise, but we're talking a good 7 or 8 years ago that the project was made public as it went through the UDP. Unless they've changed the architectural expression, it's going to be a fairly modern-classic expression, with blue and grey as the material pallet; a combination of brick and metal panels and in the same vein as the mid-rises that Mosaic or LedMac has built in the City of Vancouver. I seem to remember that it reminded me of the project further up on Main around 27th that has brick and glass, where the liquor store is. It should be a pretty good project once built. But I'm awfully hazy at this point.

The project is/was owned and being developed by an individual guy, as opposed to one of the larger residential developers in the city, so I'm not terribly surprised that it is taking some time to come to fruition.

Hope that helps.

[dshkol]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

I have some info.

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Hope that helps.

Would you, or anyone for that matter, have any info about the status of the development on the north-east corner of Main and 7th? I walk by it every day, and it used to be branded as 'Focal', but that was later taken down and now there is some more nondescript branding, while the lot remains untouched.

It used to be this Arno Matis project: Vertical Forest Building