Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 901

jlousa · #**18001** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 8:05 PM**

We just extended our lease in that building as well as took some additional space. Zayo is cleaning up their spaces lately after years of underutilization. It's an interesting space for any tech firm that wants network cross connections.

SpongeG · #**18002** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 8:41 PM**

Creative industrial building with retail and restaurant proposed for Railtown

Kenneth Chan | Dec 17 2019

Artistic rendering of 58 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver. (Kirsten Reite Architecture)

A six-storey, mixed-use building with employment space has been proposed for the foot of Jackson Street in Vancouver’s Railtown district.

Kirsten Reite Architecture has submitted a development application to redevelop 58 Jackson Avenue with retail and restaurant use on the ground level, creative manufacturing between the second and sixth levels, and general office in a portion of the fifth and sixth levels.

Site of 58 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver. (Kirsten Reite Architecture)

Artistic rendering of 58 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver. (Kirsten Reite Architecture)

Artistic rendering of 58 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver. (Kirsten Reite Architecture)

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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/58-jackson-avenue-vancouver-railtown

SpongeG · #**18003** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 8:44 PM**

17-storey wood tower with LGBTQ community centre proposed for downtown Vancouver

Kenneth Chan | Dec 17 2019

Artistic rendering of 1190 Burrard Street in Vancouver with QMUNITY. (ZGF Architects / New Commons Development)

A 17-storey, mixed-use wood tower with the new home of QMUNITY and 139 units of social housing will help bookend downtown Vancouver’s Davie Village at its eastern boundary.

Non-profit housing developer New Commons Development and ZGF Architects have submitted a rezoning application to redevelop 1190 Burrard Street — the northeast corner of the intersection of Burrard Street and Davie Street, currently occupied by low-storey commercial buildings dating as far back as 1912.

Every aspect of this redevelopment on the city-owned property is designed purposefully for the Vancouver’s LGBTQ community.

There will be a new 13,427-sq-ft LGBTQ community and social service centre within a portion of the ground level and the entirety of the second level — a relocation of QMUNITY from its existing cramped location at 1170 Bute Street. The glass facade and architectural fins of the exterior of the first two levels carry the colours of the rainbow.

Artistic rendering of 1190 Burrard Street in Vancouver with QMUNITY. (ZGF Architects / New Commons Development)

Artistic rendering of 1190 Burrard Street in Vancouver with QMUNITY. (ZGF Architects / New Commons Development)

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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1190-burrard-street-vancouver-qmunity

jollyburger · #**18004** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 9:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

We just extended our lease in that building as well as took some additional space. Zayo is cleaning up their spaces lately after years of underutilization. It's an interesting space for any tech firm that wants network cross connections.

Noticed two guys on strike outside a week or two ago but haven't seen them recently.

jlousa · #**18005** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 10:26 PM**

The strike is related to Ledcor's LTS division, quite a few of their sites are behind pickets.

s211 · #**18006** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 11:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Creative industrial building with retail and restaurant proposed for Railtown

They lost me with "creative". More marketing BS.

GenWhy? · #**18007** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 11:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

They lost me with "creative". More marketing BS.

Creative industrial and creative commercial is a loose by-law use term that blends light industrial, manufacturing, as well as office, retail, and other commercial uses. It's been primarily recently used in City policy to promote and retain light industrial and small manufacturing with sometimes back of house production and front of house retail.

Akin also to both digital and physical manufacturing or studio spaces. It's not really marketing BS but actually policy that defines the preferred uses.

It's under i-4 zoning and "manufacturing" is a loose term to use nowadays that doesn't really define current tenants.

GenWhy? · #**18008** Posted **Dec 18, 2019, 11:48 PM**

From the I-4 District Schedule: "One of the industrial uses that is permitted is creative products manufacturing. A limited number of office uses compatible with or complementing light industrial uses are also permitted. The retention or conservation of historic buildings and features is encouraged."

officedweller · #**18009** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 12:05 AM**

i.e. design and manufacturing

LeftCoaster · #**18010** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 12:55 AM**

Wow I love 58 Jackson, simple but elegant.

SpongeG · #**18011** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 4:32 AM**

I've never really been to railtown, its like a whole unknown world to me. Might have to check it out.

Changing City · #**18012** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 6:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I've never really been to railtown, its like a whole unknown world to me. Might have to check it out.

If you head down there now, you'll pretty much see it in 'before' state. Only one of the half dozen new buildings is actually under construction at the moment - 'Bench', an infill on Railway Street. Some of the old warehouses are interesting buildings, but there aren't too many contemporary additions - yet.

Tetsuo · #**18013** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 8:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I've never really been to railtown, its like a whole unknown world to me. Might have to check it out.

It's pretty interesting, I find that there's a surprising amount of residential in the area too.

Are those social/below market, or market rentals, or strata/condos?

s211 · #**18014** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Creative industrial and creative commercial is a loose by-law use term that blends light industrial, manufacturing, as well as office, retail, and other commercial uses. It's been primarily recently used in City policy to promote and retain light industrial and small manufacturing with sometimes back of house production and front of house retail.

Akin also to both digital and physical manufacturing or studio spaces. It's not really marketing BS but actually policy that defines the preferred uses.

It's under i-4 zoning and "manufacturing" is a loose term to use nowadays that doesn't really define current tenants.

It's all pretentious BS. Being creative just doesn't apply to hipsters making artisinal lightbulbs (with thanks to Portlandia). It can apply to anything.

Millennials seem to think they invented creativity, when in fact they're just making a different lightbulb. It's called invention and innovation, and hey guess what. That's been going on for a few millennia now, not just with millennials.

GenWhy? · #**18015** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 6:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

It's all pretentious BS. Being creative just doesn't apply to hipsters making artisinal lightbulbs (with thanks to Portlandia). It can apply to anything.

Millennials seem to think they invented creativity, when in fact they're just making a different lightbulb. It's called invention and innovation, and hey guess what. That's been going on for a few millennia now, not just with millennials.

Not sure where the age things comes in for zoning changes at City Hall, but here is a bulletin on the application of it. It actually can only be what's in the I-4 District Schedule. But we can agree to disagree on legally binding by-laws that determine eligible uses in buildings. Here is "Manufacturing":

2.2.M [Manufacturing]
● Bakery Products Manufacturing.
● Batteries Manufacturing.
● Chemicals or Chemical Products Manufacturing – Class B
● Clothing Manufacturing.
● Creative Products Manufacturing.
● Dairy Products Manufacturing.
● Electrical Products or Appliances Manufacturing.
● Food or Beverage Products Manufacturing - Class B.
● Furniture or Fixtures Manufacturing.
● Ice Manufacturing.
● Information Communication Technology Manufacturing.
● Jewellery Manufacturing.
● Leather Products Manufacturing.
● Machinery or Equipment Manufacturing.
● Metal Products Manufacturing - Class B.
● Miscellaneous Products Manufacturing - Class B.
● Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing.
● Non-metallic Mineral Products Manufacturing - Class B.
● Paper Products Manufacturing.
● Plastic Products Manufacturing.
● Printing or Publishing.
● Rubber Products Manufacturing.
● Shoes or Boots Manufacturing.
● Textiles or Knit Goods Manufacturing.
● Tobacco Products Manufacturing.
● Transportation Equipment Manufacturing.
● Wood Products Manufacturing - Class B.

"Creative products" has been a relatively recent addition to the uses of various District Schedules to allow operations or businesses that do not fit neatly within retail or industrial, whether it be digital or physical.

From the bulletin: "differs from the existing Manufacturing definition in that it accommodates design and prototyping activities that result in a customized product, which may include the use of digital technology, without requiring large-scale production on-site... [and] is not intended to include general office space space for companies undertaking production in another location."

If "hipsters" are manufacturers that operate quasi industrial / retail service or digital businesses then I guess we need to change "business owner" to "sell out"?

csbvan · #**18016** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 6:24 PM**

It's also worth noting that Railtown has a surprisingly high proportion of good restaurants: St. Lawrence, Ask for Luigi, Mackenzie Room, and Belgarde Kitchen (to a lesser extent).

SpongeG · #**18017** Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:18 PM**

yeah i have heard of all the restaurants

djh · #**18018** Posted **Dec 20, 2019, 9:04 PM**

Here's the website page at Macfarlane Biggar architects, that are building a significant I-4 zoned development (zoned for Creative Products Manufacturing) in Railtown right now.

The project website (411railway.com) has the plans for the building so you can get a good idea of the layouts

Feathered Friend · #**18019** Posted **Dec 20, 2019, 10:21 PM**

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An Energized Base Helps Robson Street Monolith Overcome Urban Design Panel Concerns

150 Robson Street – DP-2019-00809
Perhaps it’s fitting that a project that will provide a new hotel, strata tower, and save a heritage building by BC Place was the final item reviewed by the Urban Design Panel this year. While its rezoning was approved last summer, it’s likely the conditions were met only a few months ago when a development application was filed to replace the Catholic Charities Men’s Hostel. Despite that delay, the applicant has been hard at work in the background.

Given the panel’s past recommendations, Hannah and I expected there would be some refinements to the concept, but neither of us predicted this level of change. As the applicant explained, a new direction from city staff challenged their original ideas, so they had to reluctantly let some of them go. Still, they agreed the new design responds better to the existing context, and the hotel’s boxier form is becoming more common due to Vancouver’s strict sustainability policies.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2019/12/20...el-concerns-over-robson-street-monolith/

Capitol Hill · #**18020** Posted **Dec 22, 2019, 4:28 PM**

My great grandparents owned a house at 984 Burrard St., where the BC Hydro building was put in the 1950s. Sitting around with the family during the holidays, we were wondering what the land would be worth in 2019.

Just fun parlor games, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and the best for 2020.