Downtown Vancouver Updates

[connect2source]

Likely deserves it's own thread but Terrace House, 1200 block W. Pender, Coal Harbour has launched it's preview site.

"Adjacent to Arthur Erickson’s historic Evergreen Building, the first 12 floors of Terrace House will be constructed of concrete and steel, expressed as an architectural finish to Erickson’s iconic work. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the original landscape architect for the Evergreen Building, will help ensure harmony between the two buildings. The upper portion of Terrace House will be a distinct, triangular, glass-clad mass timber structure utilizing local timber."

Prices look to be in the 2M - 10M range

http://www.vancouverpresalesrealestate.com/terrace-house/

source : http://www.vancouverpresalesrealestate.com/terrace-house/

[BodomReaper]

The west side of the bottom six floors remind me of this building at the foot of the Cambie bridge, which was built in 2008 but looks more dated:


https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.2659908,-..._MOHchUhOd8C-VpX8_O3A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[officedweller]

Wraps are down on part of the reno on Georgia St.

Pic by me today.

Looks good because thy used darker coloured glass.

[vanman]

Downtown from the Cypress Bowl lookout taken by me today.

[Klazu]

While at Cypress, did you notice that the new road connecting through the new residential area is now open? I drove it last month for the first time. A lot of development happening on that mountain face, just below the lookout.

[jollyburger]

Is that the first lookout? Is the view from the second any better?

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Wraps are down on part of the reno on Georgia St.

Pic by me today.

Looks good because thy used darker coloured glass.

Originally Posted by mcminsen

March 10 '16, my pic

Where's the beef?



Oct.28 '16, my pic

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Is that the first lookout? Is the view from the second any better?

There is only one lookout on your way up Cypress Mountain. The other place is just a picnic area with no view.

[s211]

Originally Posted by Klazu

While at Cypress, did you notice that the new road connecting through the new residential area is now open? I drove it last month for the first time. A lot of development happening on that mountain face, just below the lookout.

The road grades are crazy in that new area. That area will be a circus come winter time.

[Marshal]

The 'second' lookout/picnic area on Cypress used to have a view but it's been lost to the trees for many years now.

[Vin]

If only we have something exciting like this in the works downtown....

http://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2016/10/edmonton-downtown

[logan5]

You know your downtown has crossed the threshold of greatness when it has a 2 level Shoppers Drug Mart in the works. An 11 000 sq foot Dollarama store is just the icing on the cake.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by Vin

If only we have something exciting like this in the works downtown....

http://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2016/10/edmonton-downtown

It seems kinda amateur in comparison to whats being built in Vancouver's suburbs. Brentwood, Lougheed etc. Kinda dated looking too IMO

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by logan5

You know your downtown has crossed the threshold of greatness when it has a 2 level Shoppers Drug Mart in the works. An 11 000 sq foot Dollarama store is just the icing on the cake.

The Ice district is a fantastic development and would be wonderful to have (and it makes our stubby Frankenbuildings next to Rogers Arena look that much worse.)

Also actually having such retail downtown would be welcome. Unlike many of you on here most of my friends and I (who are all working professionals) can rarely shop at all the luxury brand stores in downtown Vancouver (if ever).

Nice thing about Japan is that in the urban retail cores there is a healthy mix of luxury stores and dollar stores, convenience stores, and cheap hole in the wall restaurants and bars for normal people. Not everything is geared towards the super rich. That keeps a downtown area interesting and alive.

[LeftCoaster]

How long have you been gone Metro? There are tons of affordable places to shop downtown Vancouver. Outside of one block and a half stretch on Alberni most of downtown is quite affordable from a retail and restaurant perspective...

As for Ice, I think it is a great development for DT Edmonton but wouldn't really work downtown Vancouver. We're getting a couple similar projects in the metro anyway out at Brentwood and Lougheed.

I'd much rather continued intensification on our existing street grid than master-planned mega-blocks.

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

How long have you been gone Metro? There are tons of affordable places to shop downtown Vancouver. Outside of one block and a half stretch on Alberni most of downtown is quite affordable from a retail and restaurant perspective...

As for Ice, I think it is a great development for DT Edmonton but wouldn't really work downtown Vancouver. We're getting a couple similar projects in the metro anyway out at Brentwood and Lougheed.

I'd much rather continued intensification on our existing street grid than master-planned mega-blocks.

Been gone for 3 years, but all I ever see on the retail and update sections of this forum is older buildings with independent shops and downtown convenience stores being redeveloped into luxury brand stores and condos with a Starbucks or a Donelly Group lounge. Visited this August and many of my favorite old haunts were gone.

And by Ice obviously not a carbon copy for Van but something a little more towards that direction around Rogers Arena would have been nice.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

The Ice district is a fantastic development and would be wonderful to have (and it makes our stubby Frankenbuildings next to Rogers Arena look that much worse.)

Also actually having such retail downtown would be welcome. Unlike many of you on here most of my friends and I (who are all working professionals) can rarely shop at all the luxury brand stores in downtown Vancouver (if ever).

Nice thing about Japan is that in the urban retail cores there is a healthy mix of luxury stores and dollar stores, convenience stores, and cheap hole in the wall restaurants and bars for normal people. Not everything is geared towards the super rich. That keeps a downtown area interesting and alive.

We have most of the elements in our stadium district that Edmonton is building. Our casino and hotel is at least a few notches above what Edmonton is building.

Mostly though, I like the fact that a large arena like Rogers Arena is being absorbed into the urban fabric. That's difficult to do. Even BC Place will disappear to a certain extent.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Wraps are down on part of the reno on Georgia St.

Pic by me today.

Looks good because thy used darker coloured glass.

That's a new post office. I went to the old one today (first two pics) to mail a letter and all the old boxes are gone and the service counter is closed.

I'm still looking for the bull.



Oct.31 '16, my pics

[hollywoodnorth]

smart move by Canada Post. good move just a block away from their old location. I guess we will see the Canada Post HQ product moving ahead fairly soon.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

smart move by Canada Post. good move just a block away from their old location. I guess we will see the Canada Post HQ product moving ahead fairly soon.

I'm sad they moved. would have been nice to leave their post office in that building even if it was redeveloped into condos/art gallery/whatever else.