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Originally Posted by officedweller
Curious to see a rendering of the proposed design
- hard to see how a 11-13 storey building is 250 ft in height (unless that's just a spire or other architectural feature).
Office building don't have 20ft ceiling heights.
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City Council unanimously supported the potential height increase exploration exercise for the Lululemon office proposal.
As I understand it, the exercise doesn't add any additional floorspace beyond the 500,000+ sq. ft. already approved in the CD-1 that approved the building illustrated on the previous page. It looks like it's rather a design massing exercise to test what that floorpace would look like up to 250 feet tall. Currently it looks like Lululemon were thinking about 11 to 13 storeys, but don't forget the planners encouraged
the Nature's Path building nearby to add an extra two floors to their original proposal.
So it's not necessarily a 250 foot high 13 storey building, but rather 500,000+ sq. ft. in a building up to 250 feet high. Of course, they might conclude that 250 feet would be too tall. And Lululemon might prefer fewer floors and larger floorplates. We'll wait and see the outcome.
It raises some interesting questions for the longer term about the potential redevelopment of the converted Coca Cola bottling plant in Kitsilano that Lululemon currently occupy, and also the office building on Pacific at Burrard, which looks like a candidate for a residential tower.
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