Suburban Updates - All Other Metro Vancouver Municipalities - Page 245

Tetsuo · #**4881** Posted **Dec 8, 2019, 2:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I think they dropped that idea because New Westminster was not happy with that happening.

Does New West still have sights on having that big industrial zone redeveloped?

SpongeG · #**4882** Posted **Dec 8, 2019, 3:48 AM**

I haven't heard much lately. But I found this about the property from 2009.

https://www.newwestcity.ca/council_minutes/0831_Aug31/CW/Reports/CW%20Request%20Coquitlam.pdf

Coquitlam was looking ar 2200 units of housing plus 160,000 sq ft of office space and commerical and community use on the 27 acre site at 225 North Road. New West was against it basically.

SpongeG · #**4883** Posted **Dec 11, 2019, 10:02 AM**

yes. They don't seem to be any proper renders yet though or I can't find any.

Rentals, a YMCA, a park & ride: Coquitlam OKs Burquitlam project
Gary McKenna / Tri-City News
DECEMBER 10, 2019

A YMCA community centre is part of a package of amenities agreed to in a three-way partnership between the city, the YMCA of Greater Vancouver and developer Concert Properties.
Photograph By CONCERT PROPERTIES

Construction crews are getting ready to break ground on a recreation facility that aims to be the "civic heart" of Burquitlam.

The community centre is part of a package of amenities agreed to in a three-way partnership between the city, the YMCA of Greater Vancouver and developer Concert Properties. On top of the 55,000-sq. ft. recreation centre, the project includes a community police station, a park-and-ride lot, more rental housing and an expanded Cottonwood Park.

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The construction timelines will be tight. Staff said that site prep work will begin immediately, with an official groundbreaking likely taking place early in the new year.

The Cottonwood Park expansion should be completed in spring 2021 while the YMCA rec centre, community police station and park-and-ride are expected to be completed by fall 2022. Construction of the rental housing component of the mixed-use development will be completed in 2023.

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https://www.tricitynews.com/news/rentals...uitlam-oks-burquitlam-project-1.24032253

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The development site, located between Smith Avenue and Emerson Street, will include these components:

A 55,000-square-foot YMCA with an indoor pool, gym, fitness studios and equipment, multi-purpose space, child minding, a family development centre and other amenities;
A 3,700-square-foot Community Policing Station;
A 229-stall underground parkade, including 115 stalls for the YMCA, 76 for the Park-and-Ride, 31 shared by the Park-and-Ride and rental housing visitors, and seven for the Community Policing Station;
1.4 acres of public open space, including the new redesigned Burquitlam Park;
Transportation improvements such as new multi-use paths and an upgraded and realigned Emerson Street; and
Residential rental and strata towers developed by Concert Properties, with up to 100 non-market rental suites operated in partnership with 43 Housing Society.

http://www.concertproperties.com/about/b...oquitlam-ymca-and-amenities#.XfC9wuhKjIU

dailyhive

Colin4567 · #**4884** Posted **Dec 11, 2019, 7:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

yes. They don't seem to be any proper renders yet though or I can't find any.

Rentals, a YMCA, a park & ride: Coquitlam OKs Burquitlam project
Gary McKenna / Tri-City News
DECEMBER 10, 2019

A YMCA community centre is part of a package of amenities agreed to in a three-way partnership between the city, the YMCA of Greater Vancouver and developer Concert Properties.
Photograph By CONCERT PROPERTIES

Construction crews are getting ready to break ground on a recreation facility that aims to be the "civic heart" of Burquitlam.

The community centre is part of a package of amenities agreed to in a three-way partnership between the city, the YMCA of Greater Vancouver and developer Concert Properties. On top of the 55,000-sq. ft. recreation centre, the project includes a community police station, a park-and-ride lot, more rental housing and an expanded Cottonwood Park.

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The construction timelines will be tight. Staff said that site prep work will begin immediately, with an official groundbreaking likely taking place early in the new year.

The Cottonwood Park expansion should be completed in spring 2021 while the YMCA rec centre, community police station and park-and-ride are expected to be completed by fall 2022. Construction of the rental housing component of the mixed-use development will be completed in 2023.

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https://www.tricitynews.com/news/rentals...uitlam-oks-burquitlam-project-1.24032253

http://www.concertproperties.com/about/b...oquitlam-ymca-and-amenities#.XfC9wuhKjIU

dailyhive

As someone who uses Burquitlam Station every day (I go to SFU from north Coquitlam) it's going to be an incredible area. From what I know, right around the station there's these 8 going in, then another 6 at Burquitlam Plaza, and I'm pretty sure 2 proposed in the triangle between North Road and Clark just south of Como or so (i think a few more further south were postponed/called off). All in, it's going to be a really, really exciting time for this area for them to add a tonne of people in such a short time - these will all likely be done like 2025 or so? Not to mention the massive redevelopment of like 30+ towers in the Lougheed area.

My biggest gripes are the same as always - not enough consideration for cyclists (Coquitlam is absolute garbage for cyclists) and not enough office space. A few years ago, Coquitlam said that City Centre is going to be their jobs centre, with (I'm pretty sure) about 5,000 jobs in Burquitlam. We really haven't seen a development inclusive of much office/work space here.

Rather than growing from a bedroom community to a city of its own, I'm worried Coquitlam will be a bedroom community, just with more beds. We can't keep having everyone go west to downtown Vancouver for work - some people have to be going eastbound or at least living/working more east to ensure we can delay the maxing of SkyTrain capacity as long as possible and use the line more efficiently. We can fit 25,000 people BOTH WAYS, whereas Van-centered growth is really like 25,000 one way because everyone commutes west in the morning and east at night.

That said, I get that office space out here isn't quite as attractive, but I think we could be doing better to some extent - maybe even a few floors here or there could be office?

SpongeG · #**4885** Posted **Dec 11, 2019, 7:30 PM**

SOCO will have office space.

It says the rental housing will be complete by 2023, but it doesn't say when the condo housing will be, I wonder if they are holding off or ?

cairnstone · #**4886** Posted **Dec 11, 2019, 7:37 PM**

Concert has 2 sister projects so I think the second one will have the market units and this one will have the amenities the city wanted added to the area. There was a land swap to make all this happen as I recall.

Tetsuo · #**4887** Posted **Dec 11, 2019, 8:10 PM**

Between this YMCA, Chimo/Poirier, and Burnaby's plans for Cameron Rec Centre, the Burquitlam area is going to be quite well served by public amenities !!!

SpongeG · #**4888** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 4:47 AM**

saw this application for Coquitlam, nothing exciting but it's replacing two SFH and the block is still all SFH, the densification is spreading further east along Como Lake now.

pic from google maps

715 + 717 Como Lake Road.

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Project Proposal: Rezoning two lots from RT-1 to RM-3, Subdivision to
consolidate lots, and Development Permit to construct a six storey rental
building with 57 units. Application associated with proposal Rezoning
1 lot from RT-1 to RM-3 Development Permit for form and character.
Subdivision to consolidate 2 RT-1 lots 1 RM-1.

osirisboy · #**4889** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:54 PM**

It's actually replacing a single family home and a duplex. And directly east of this is a large site that's under construction. (Based on google earth)

SpongeG · #**4890** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 10:04 PM**

i haven't been home since October so I don't know whats going on there, I can look on monday when I drive that road since its open again, Como lake has been under pipeline something construction for most of the year so have avoided it or not been allowed to access it anyway.

Up until now the development hasn't crept much further east than Dogwood. The city has opened development from North Road to Blue Mountain which is at present mostly SFH or duplexes which for the most part are just houses.

It's just interesting to see that there is finally something going on that stretch. The only project I know of is Duet at 707 Como Lake and that is slightly west of this proposal. This new proposal is nearer to Robinson.

osirisboy · #**4891** Posted **Dec 20, 2019, 1:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

i haven't been home since October so I don't know whats going on there, I can look on monday when I drive that road since its open again, Como lake has been under pipeline something construction for most of the year so have avoided it or not been allowed to access it anyway.

Up until now the development hasn't crept much further east than Dogwood. The city has opened development from North Road to Blue Mountain which is at present mostly SFH or duplexes which for the most part are just houses.

It's just interesting to see that there is finally something going on that stretch. The only project I know of is Duet at 707 Como Lake and that is slightly west of this proposal. This new proposal is nearer to Robinson.

My mistake. I meant to say the site directly west of the proposal. Not east. So that must be duet that I see on google earth.

SpongeG · #**4892** Posted **Dec 20, 2019, 4:27 AM**

I'm just surprised that development is going that far already, I thought it would be a few years to get that far from Clarke/North Road, Como Lake is a main road though so it makes sense it is getting redeveloped. Walking time this must be 10-15 minutes from the Burquitlam station.

There is just so much redevelopment going on in such a small area around Burquitlam station. A lot of townhouse projects replacing SFH mostly.

invisibleairwaves · #**4893** Posted **Dec 20, 2019, 9:03 AM**

Adera (the developer for Duet and this new proposal) has been trying to buy up more or less the entire block bounded by Como Lake, Robinson, Lea, and Dogwood- they also have a fairly dense townhouse project across the lane from Duet. I guess they haven't succeeded in buying the properties all at once so they're redeveloping it kind of piecemeal.

As for the new proposal, this is a really small site for a six-storey lowrise, and it'll have to have some separation from Duet so it's going to be a bit of a strange one.

officedweller · #**4894** Posted **Dec 31, 2019, 6:45 AM**

Royal Columbia Hospital Addition

By City of Rain Dec 15th:

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Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1514343, member: 70034

IMG_7371 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7372 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7373 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7374 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7375 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7376 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

GMD · #**4895** Posted **Dec 31, 2019, 7:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Royal Columbia Hospital Addition

By City of Rain Dec 15th:

Please, no more pictures, my eyes are burning from the ugliness...

Honestly, what is wrong with the architectural profession? In what other field are the results so obviously, horrifically worse than any era (except the 60s/70s) that came before? It is not that hard to build something that is not hideous - just do it already.

misher · #**4896** Posted **Dec 31, 2019, 8:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by GMD

Please, no more pictures, my eyes are burning from the ugliness...

Honestly, what is wrong with the architectural profession? In what other field are the results so obviously, horrifically worse than any era (except the 60s/70s) that came before? It is not that hard to build something that is not hideous - just do it already.

Blocks with few windows are much cheaper which is why a lot of our older housing uses this design.

officedweller · #**4897** Posted **Dec 31, 2019, 9:21 AM**

SOCO

I think North Road is on the right of the rendering

https://twitter.com/jeremyg604

Marshal · #**4898** Posted **Dec 31, 2019, 9:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by GMD

Please, no more pictures, my eyes are burning from the ugliness...

Honestly, what is wrong with the architectural profession? In what other field are the results so obviously, horrifically worse than any era (except the 60s/70s) that came before? It is not that hard to build something that is not hideous - just do it already.

As an architect I apologize for the horrors being perpetrated across the board.

A good design requires 3 things: a good architect, a good client, and a suitable budget. It is sad, but it has always been the case that only 5-10% of our buildings qualify as architecture. The embedded nature of architects and developers has resulted in an uninspiring, unartful product. And, of the 5-10%, local architecture has been of a poor quality, relying of copied tropes, uninventive use of materials, basic repetitive forms, terrible lack of use of colour, and the almost total lack of sculptural, non-orthagonal forms.

What we have done fairly well is at the scale above architecture. We have been fairly successful in building a good urban scape; plus, thank god the beauty of this place is at a scale that we barely put a dent into it.

Regretfully, we have yet to develop a strong architectural culture.