Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 837

dreambrother808 · #**16721** Posted **Oct 26, 2018, 1:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

The problem is renewing them would result in the displacement of a lot of low/middle income earners in favour of the wealthy. Is that really worth the aesthetic improvement? Part of what makes it a great neighbourhood is the diversity of populations (age and economic).

Yes, for example the recent fire in the West End resulted in 4 renters I know leaving this city, some going back to Ontario for example, due to no longer being unable to find an affordable alternative here. The crisis for lower and middle earners is raging in the rental sector and anything that doesn’t ameliorate that problem needs to be marginalized.

Vin · #**16722** Posted **Oct 26, 2018, 2:33 AM**

West End reflects Vancouver in general: regressive, especially so.considering this city's potential.

mcminsen · #**16723** Posted **Oct 26, 2018, 3:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

The core is starting to rise.

Oct.17 '18, my pics

New pillars up all around the site.

Oct.25 '18, my pics

officedweller · #**16724** Posted **Oct 26, 2018, 8:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Nice looking project posted at VancouverMarket.ca and Changing City Updates.
Just south of the Kengo Kuma tower (across the alley)

1555 Robson

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/08/23/28-storey-tower-proposed-for-robson-street/

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/08/23/28-storey-tower-proposed-for-robson-street/

Development Application:
https://development.vancouver.ca/1555robson/index.htm

From the Vancouver Courier, with new pics.
The original rendering showed a restrained building.
The newer renderings show add-ons that screw up the clean lines.

https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/c...-by-urban-design-panel-oct-31-1.23477775

Rendering: IBI Group
https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/c...-by-urban-design-panel-oct-31-1.23477775

LeftCoaster · #**16725** Posted **Oct 26, 2018, 10:07 PM**

Still looks good but for those balconies on the west facade. Those really ruin the flow of the design on that side.

I've heard that planning is pushing for every unit to have a balcony now, that may be the reason for those tacked on after thoughts on the west.

mcminsen · #**16726** Posted **Oct 27, 2018, 9:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Sept.17 '18, my pic

About five and a half weeks later...

Oct.25 '18, my pics

SpongeG · #**16727** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 5:48 AM**

more on 1555 Robson

New Vancouver condo tower on Robson Street will have separate lobby for social housing

by Carlito Pablo on October 30th, 2018

Separate entrances for condo and social housing residents are not uncommon in Vancouver.

Last July, city council approved a rezoning for a development that has this segregated arrangement.

It was a 30-storey high rise in the West End. Condo residents have their lobby on Burnaby Street, and people in social housing have to access their homes on Thurlow Street.

Another similar development is coming up, this time on the northeast corner of Robson and Cardero streets.

It’s 28-storey tower that will have 153 condo and 24 social housing units.

The project at 1555 Robson Street by VKJ (Cardero) Investment LP will replace a two-storey commercial building.

The new development will include commercial and offices uses on the ground floor, whose entrances will be on Robson Street.

According to the design rationale submitted by the project’s consultant IBI Group as part of the development application, the “residential lobbies” will be located on Cardero Street.

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https://www.straight.com/news/1157806/ne...-will-have-separate-lobby-social-housing

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**16728** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 5:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

more on 1555 Robson

New Vancouver condo tower on Robson Street will have separate lobby for social housing
https://www.straight.com/news/1157806/ne...-will-have-separate-lobby-social-housing

that's good, they should. no different than Shangri La's separate entrances.

osirisboy · #**16729** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 2:40 PM**

Ugh why does the media always go crazy with these separate entrances stories?!

WarrenC12 · #**16730** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Ugh why does the media always go crazy with these separate entrances stories?!

Goes back to racial integration in the US South I guess.

Funny I'm near the Lido building which is a single development with separate buildings (and lobbies of course) for renters and strata units. Who cares.

GenWhy? · #**16731** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Ugh why does the media always go crazy with these separate entrances stories?!

The Straight isn't really... "media" as per other forms. More of a blog. What the Straight chooses to ignore / not print and what most folks don't know is that social housing is to be run by a non-profit, which is separate from the strata or the rental component of a mixed building. Having 1 entrance / everything shared is not easy to mange when you have 2 bodies managing. You're essentially building 2 buildings in 1 and it's a non-issue, mandated, really.

WarrenC12 · #**16732** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

The Straight isn't really... "media" as per other forms. More of a blog. What the Straight chooses to ignore / not print and what most folks don't know is that social housing is to be run by a non-profit, which is separate from the strata or the rental component of a mixed building. Having 1 entrance / everything shared is not easy to mange when you have 2 bodies managing. You're essentially building 2 buildings in 1 and it's a non-issue, mandated, really.

Exactly. Just ask any strata that has to share certain spaces with commercial units. Same issues.

CivicBlues · #**16733** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 5:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Goes back to racial integration in the US South I guess.

Funny I'm near the Lido building which is a single development with separate buildings (and lobbies of course) for renters and strata units. Who cares.

Wait till ssiguy gets a whiff of this, he'll claim it's racial segregation perpetrated on the White middle class by the Asian money laundering global elite scum.

WoodlandCritter · #**16734** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 5:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by a very long weekend

They should be building these across the entire south of Vancouver - pull down the specials, pull down the cost of housing, pull up the young, pull up the people.

Ok comrade

officedweller · #**16735** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 10:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

The Straight isn't really... "media" as per other forms. More of a blog. What the Straight chooses to ignore / not print and what most folks don't know is that social housing is to be run by a non-profit, which is separate from the strata or the rental component of a mixed building. Having 1 entrance / everything shared is not easy to mange when you have 2 bodies managing. You're essentially building 2 buildings in 1 and it's a non-issue, mandated, really.

The Straight should advocate that all basement suites have a common entrance with the principal residence.

scryer · #**16736** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 10:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

The Straight should advocate that all basement suites have a common entrance with the principal residence.

I would be there just for the entertainment.

Feathered Friend · #**16737** Posted **Nov 2, 2018, 11:47 PM**

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-concord-pacific-yaletown-affordable-housing-sites

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650 affordable homes proposed for Concord Pacific sites in Yaletown
Kenneth ChanNov 02, 2018 12:40 pm

A framework agreement has been reached between local developer Concord Pacific, the City of Vancouver, and BC Housing to construct up to 650 units of affordable non-market housing in downtown Vancouver’s Yaletown district. A target has been set to create homes with at least two bedrooms, so that they are suitable for families.

Six undeveloped sites owned by the developer have been identified for the creation of new housing, with the developer transferring ownership of three sites to the municipal government for the purpose of non-market housing:

450 Pacific Street
990 Beatty Street
1050 Expo Boulevard
The three remaining sites closest to the False Creek waterfront will be converted into market housing uses and remain under Concord Pacific ownership:

1502 Granville Street
431 Beach Avenue
900 Cooperage Way

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-concord-pacific-yaletown-affordable-housing-sites

osirisboy · #**16738** Posted **Nov 3, 2018, 12:24 AM**

Ugh. That doesn't seem like many units. I know it's easier said than done but the city should allow high density on those sites. Sell them off and take that money and build units on cheaper land

For example that expo site (4) that should be a 500 unit building with office retail on the bottom.

mcminsen · #**16739** Posted **Nov 3, 2018, 8:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Pics by me today - the Kingston Hotel is being painted salmon pink.
Likely to stand out from the green glass of the Telus Garden complex surrounding it.

The pink with beige columns scheme looks familiar, but I can't quite place it.
I think there's another hotel painted similarly somewhere.

Nov.2 '18, my pics

fullsizeoutput_6186 by mcminsen, on Flickr

fullsizeoutput_6187 by mcminsen, on Flickr

fullsizeoutput_6188 by mcminsen, on Flickr

fullsizeoutput_6189 by mcminsen, on Flickr

fullsizeoutput_6178 by mcminsen, on Flickr

vinc · #**16740** Posted **Nov 3, 2018, 2:36 PM**

the flamingo! 108 ave and King George