General Vancouver Updates - Page 296

osirisboy · #**5901** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 6:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

They posted all the boards:

http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/false-creek-flats.aspx

They have mixed use residential all along the east side of the road from Terminal to Great Northern Way with more housing on GNW almost out to Emily Carr.

Thx

Who wants to bet that it'll end up looking just like Olympic village, arbutus village, Westbrook village, east Fraser lands, and what they want to put in where the viaducts are?

WarrenC12 · #**5902** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 6:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Thx

Who wants to bet that it'll end up looking just like Olympic village, arbutus village, Westbrook village, east Fraser lands, and what they want to put in where the viaducts are?

Do all of those look the same to you?

osirisboy · #**5903** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 5:52 PM**

double post

osirisboy · #**5904** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Do all of those look the same to you?

Yes! That's kind of why I said what I said. you think they are all look different??? Its all painted concrete/spandrel buildings (yes there are exceptions) with the same FSRs, townhome base with huge setbacks and layers and layers of greenery.

WarrenC12 · #**5905** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Yes! That's kind of why I said what I said. you think they are all look different???

They are all fine and suit the neighbourhood. Wherever you travel in the world, all cities have certain looks. Vancouver is no different.

osirisboy · #**5906** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 6:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

They are all fine and suit the neighbourhood. Wherever you travel in the world, all cities have certain looks. Vancouver is no different.

Right, so you also think that they have the same look/feel. Which makes these massive public consultations kinda funny because they all end up being basically the same as the other developments

trofirhen · #**5907** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Right, so you also think that they have the same look/feel. Which makes these massive public consultations kinda funny because they all end up being basically the same as the other developments

I think a lot, if not nearly all, of these public consultations is to legitimize what is already planned. That way, nobody can say "they rammed the project through without asking us."

officedweller · #**5908** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 9:26 PM**

Chevron has put up for sale several Westside gas stations:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mid-boom-in-real-estate/article33790366/

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More gas stations will be disappearing from Vancouver because of the hot real estate market, as Chevron Canada Ltd. plans to put another five stations in the pricey west side up for sale.

The company decided to sell the five locations after marketing three others last year, including one on Georgia Street that is currently one of only two gas stations in the downtown core. Although sales haven’t finalized on the first three, interest in the properties was strong enough to persuade the company to go further.
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Chevron’s site on Georgia Street, near several new towers that are being proposed, hasn’t been rezoned yet, but the possibility exists in the new West End plan.

The site’s assessed value went to $32.8-million this year from $10.2-million last year, with almost all of the value, except for a minuscule $16,000, being assigned to the land.

The Chevron sites that are being put on the block are those at Broadway and Alma Street, Fourth Avenue and MacDonald Street, 16th Avenue and Cambie Street, 59th Avenue and Cambie Street and 41st Avenue and Oak Street.

The site at 41st and Oak, currently valued at $7.96-million, sits kitty corner from the nine-block former bus-depot site that TransLink just sold for $440-million.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mid-boom-in-real-estate/article33790366/

officedweller · #**5909** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 9:46 PM**

King Edward Villa from GBL Twitter Jan 23rd:

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

Feathered Friend · #**5910** Posted **Jan 28, 2017, 9:37 AM**

Photos taken on January 27th

Feathered Friend · #**5911** Posted **Jan 28, 2017, 9:46 AM**

Work seems to have started on the Choklit Park Terraces (1107 West 7th Avenue). Workers finished removing the foundation this week, and have started putting in shotcrete.
Photos taken January 27th

Feathered Friend · #**5912** Posted **Jan 28, 2017, 10:16 AM**

(I also bumped into McMinsen, our friendly poster who has provided us with so many photo updates).
Photos taken January 27th

Feathered Friend · #**5913** Posted **Jan 28, 2017, 11:12 AM**

Photos taken January 27th

mcminsen · #**5914** Posted **Jan 28, 2017, 12:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

(I also bumped into McMinsen, our friendly poster who has provided us with so many photo updates).
Photos taken January 27th

It was nice to meet you!

Here are some more angles of The Spot on Cambie, with the restored heritage house that was part of the project.

One thing that I think is odd is that this project is allowed to use the same name as The Spot @ 933 Seymour Street, completed in 1998. It reminds me of how we have two different Shaw towers downtown. The Shaw tower at Cathedral Place (across Georgia from the Hotel Vancouver, with the mansard roof that mimics Hotel Vancouver) and the newer and bigger Shaw tower near the convention centre.

Jan.27 '17, my pics

connect2source · #**5915** Posted **Jan 28, 2017, 3:16 PM**

Great pics as always mcminsen! The name was derived from the former White Spot which sat at location for decades and was a major draw for City Hall staff, perhaps the developers chose it to appeal to them and to aid in getting it approved.

officedweller · #**5916** Posted **Jan 31, 2017, 5:14 AM**

I think the Spot on Cambie adds "on Cambie" to the name.

WRT Shaw Towers, the Cathedral Place name came about quite recently and is named after Sir Run Run Shaw (who died in 2014), whereas the other one is named after Shaw Cable.

There are also 2 TD Towers - the original at Pacific Centre and Bentall IV (formerly Canada Trust Tower)

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From VancouverMarket.ca - new 2-storey Shoppers Drug Mart plus 3 other retail units across from the Safeway near 4th & Vine:

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2017/01/23/new-retail-building-planned-for-west-4th/

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2017/01/23/new-retail-building-planned-for-west-4th/

logan5 · #**5917** Posted **Jan 31, 2017, 5:51 AM**

Doesn't fit in with W. 4th.

jollyburger · #**5918** Posted **Jan 31, 2017, 6:20 AM**

^^ Looks like every other new building on West 4th. Fits in perfectly.

retro_orange · #**5919** Posted **Jan 31, 2017, 6:29 AM**

a poor use of land.

logan5 · #**5920** Posted **Jan 31, 2017, 6:30 AM**

It looks like an office park building.