Suburban Updates - All Other Metro Vancouver Municipalities - Page 158

vanman · #**3141** Posted **Oct 2, 2015, 10:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by BodomReaper

On a side note, Chris Dikeakos is a solid architecture firm and are consistently able to produce reasonable designs in boring suburban locations, but they're doing Brookmere, Union, and Crown (Beedie project up North Road). They also designed The Austin. Would be nice for developers to branch out a little more!

Yeah it's incredible the amount of work they produce. They must have a solid relationship with most of the big developers. Sovereign, Solo District, Modello, Station Square and on and on. I agree their architecture is good enough for the suburbs but it would be nice to see a little more diversity.

vanman · #**3142** Posted **Oct 2, 2015, 10:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

It's pretty amazing really, as none of these recent Coquitlam side projects are part of the Lougheed Town Center megaplan which included a huge number of towers.

I would've expected Burnaby to take the lead with North Road redevelopment but it seems like that won't be the case.

VarBreStr18 · #**3143** Posted **Oct 3, 2015, 1:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

I would've expected Burnaby to take the lead with North Road redevelopment but it seems like that won't be the case.

Doesnt look like Shape has time for Lougheed yet, now that they are crazy busy with T3...and the community center ???

officedweller · #**3144** Posted **Oct 3, 2015, 1:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

I would've expected Burnaby to take the lead with North Road redevelopment but it seems like that won't be the case.

That may be a good thing - otherwise Lougheed Mall itself may dominate and the other sites could languish.

GeeCee · #**3145** Posted **Oct 3, 2015, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18

Doesnt look like Shape has time for Lougheed yet, now that they are crazy busy with T3...and the community center ???

Shape stated a while back that they expect to start on Lougheed when phase one of Brentwood is complete, I believe.

Klazu · #**3146** Posted **Oct 3, 2015, 5:23 AM**

What is phase one in Brentwood? New towers seem to just line up for sales start every 6 months there...

VarBreStr18 · #**3147** Posted **Oct 3, 2015, 5:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeeCee

Shape stated a while back that they expect to start on Lougheed when phase one of Brentwood is complete, I believe.

Why would they want to do that? when they have T1 and T2 selling like hot cakes and likely equally successful T3. Money speaks.

Archtype · #**3148** Posted **Oct 5, 2015, 6:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

What is phase one in Brentwood? New towers seem to just line up for sales start every 6 months there...

Phase 1 or the South West Phase consists of Tower 1 and 2 plus the entertainment area and plaza located in between the towers.

Tower 3 is actually part of Phase 2 or the South East Phase which includes a 4th tower along Lougheed Hwy plus some other towers and a plaza along Alpha and the wrap around the back of the mall to the current location of London Drugs

Phase 3 is the North West phase which consists of the towers along Willingdon north of Halifax street

Phase 4 or the North East phase is the current location of the mall and the area north of that.

The order of the phases isn't really defined other than the current mall area will be the last phase.

urbancanadian · #**3149** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 4:59 AM**

I'm too lazy to dig up the information, but Shape is moving quickly on its Lougheed Mall redevelopment. They submitted their first rezoning application recently, so it could move ahead in conjunction with the final parts of the master plan. It's for the first tower of the first phase. Not much info (ie. heights) yet, but I made a super quick map to show where the first phase will go.

The first phase is outlined in red, comprising four towers which (I think) share a common underground parkade. And the first tower is the red star. I also outlined Brookmere (green) and Union (blue). To the north is Lougheed Heights, Uptown, Crown, etc., which are somewhat separate. I would say they are part of the emerging Burquitlam skyline, while these are within the existing one at Lougheed Town Centre.

And here it is outlined in red on the master plan:

Prometheus · #**3150** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 5:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by urbancanadian

I'm too lazy to dig up the information, but Shape is moving quickly on its Lougheed Mall redevelopment. They submitted their first rezoning application recently, so it could move ahead in conjunction with the final parts of the master plan. It's for the first tower of the first phase. Not much info (ie. heights) yet, but I made a super quick map to show where the first phase will go.

According to a preliminary concept plan posted in the Lougheed Town Centre thread, the first tower could be between 50-60 storeys:

Source: http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2015/06/01/burnaby-unveils-vision-for-lougheed-town-centre/

urbancanadian · #**3151** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 6:08 AM**

That's right, thanks for posting that. Hopefully they do go that high, however the Brentwood plan allowed for up to 70 floors and we only got 56. It'll be interesting to see what they go for (keeping in mind that this isn't the "marquee" site that Brentwood is).

From what I remember, there was nothing specific yet in the application I saw. It's somewhere on the City of Burnaby's website.

MCsq/MooChaCha · #**3152** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

According to a preliminary concept plan posted in the Lougheed Town Centre thread, the first tower could be between 50-60 storeys:

Source: http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2015/06/01/burnaby-unveils-vision-for-lougheed-town-centre/

WOW!!!! this site will provide employment for the next 30 years. It is a medium size city...hope they have every services right on site. Not a bad place to live.

Klazu · #**3153** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by MCsq/MooChaCha

WOW!!!! this site will provide employment for the next 30 years. It is a medium size city...

I think we will be all amazed by how quickly this will become rising. I don't think it will take 30 years, but more like 15 years to see most of that built.

I sometimes wonder to myself how such plan is drafted? I can imagine some city planners rolling dices in office to come up with towers floor counts.

Sheba · #**3154** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 10:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

I think we will be all amazed by how quickly this will become rising. I don't think it will take 30 years, but more like 15 years to see most of that built.

I sometimes wonder to myself how such plan is drafted? I can imagine some city planners rolling dices in office to come up with towers floor counts.

I've seen 25 years listed as they'll be alternating between on working on this site and at Brentwood.

officedweller · #**3155** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 11:27 PM**

Check out this Richmond project:

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Stratus is Landa’s flagship property designed by two architectural masters, Foad Raffi and Arno Matis. This striking twin-tower development, located in the heart of Richmond at Gilbert and Westminster, blends urban convenience with contemporary design and amenities.

http://landaglobal.com/projects/upcoming/stratus/

whatnext · #**3156** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 11:52 PM**

Nice, shows you can have a chic and elegant midrise.

PS how crazy is it that the Worksafe HQ has all that surface parking across the street?!

cornholio · #**3157** Posted **Oct 7, 2015, 4:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Nice, shows you can have a chic and elegant midrise.

PS how crazy is it that the Worksafe HQ has all that surface parking across the street?!

In 20 years that WCB lot will pay for a brand new office complex somewhere in Surrey. Or maybe they stay in Richmond but their requirements are more like E Divisions so they will stay suburban / low rise, which means going somewhere cheap just like E Div. (*safety). One of the reasons I am sure ICBC did not occupy the Surrey central tower.

cornholio · #**3158** Posted **Oct 7, 2015, 4:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by TourOdeon

Oh damn... I wonder how residents in the area will feel when Cumpari Gelate is being torn down

When did the Burger King shut down? Fond memory of that place in the 90's.

Looks like the McDonalds and the Waffle place next door is ripe for similar rezoning in the not too distant future.

hollywoodnorth · #**3159** Posted **Oct 7, 2015, 8:58 AM**

whats the hold up on the redevelopment project at Cameron and North Road (the NW corner)? I remember seeing the renders a few years back .... it was I think 4 or 5 floors tall ... retail on the ground floor. grocery store sized retail floor plate.

anyone?

GeeCee · #**3160** Posted **Oct 7, 2015, 9:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

whats the hold up on the redevelopment project at Cameron and North Road (the NW corner)? I remember seeing the renders a few years back .... it was I think 4 or 5 floors tall ... retail on the ground floor. grocery store sized retail floor plate.

anyone?

Looks like the address for this one is 3355 North Road in Burnaby. Looks like it was purchased by Onni in 2012 after a rezoning application in 2011 by Adera. Can't find any more detail than that - nothing on the City of Burnaby website. Maybe what you saw was the proposal under Adera and Onni is just sitting on it for now?