General Vancouver Updates

[PaperTiger]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

What's the plan for the Hollywood, again?

https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/h...pment-gets-green-light-images-1.23378669

[TwoFace]

Let's hope that 4184 Investments Ltd can break even on this investment that has been bleeding money for the last 9 years and counting.

[GenWhy?]

Excavation starts soon.

[GenWhy?]

What upsets me is that this could have been affordable artist studios or even rentals if the community wasn't so anti-height.

The initial proposals to the community and City were so inspiring.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Hollywood Theatre


Hollywood Theatre, January 6, 2020. Gold mirror coming soon.
https://www.instagram.com/mahgarchitects/

Nice I hadn't realized work was already underway. It will be a shame if they lose the old seats though. The Hollywood was like a time capsule taking you back to 1935.

[misher]

You can now monitor how your city government is doing. How steady property crime and police response times have risen is frightening.

https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/VanDashboard/

[Feathered Friend]

Colourful Skies To Bridge Broadway Divide As Mount Pleasant’s Office Building Boom Continues

8 East Broadway (24 East Broadway and 2520 Ontario Street)
Though they can be a little quirky, Darren and I really appreciate the members of the SkyScraperPage Forum. These individuals have taught us a lot, and we continue to benefit from their insight, humour, and the occasional rumour they share about an upcoming open house. Regrettably, without a notice card, we could not write a post announcing this pre-application event, and we had to guess what time the meeting for this 12 floor office building would occur.

Based on past experiences, we assumed it would start at 5pm, but we were about 30 minutes late. It seems most people must have come earlier than us, as we did not notice the roughly 25 people who apparently stopped by this former fitness studio. Then again, I did not expect a large attendance, as the existing C3-A zoning already allows for this tall of a structure, which means this rezoning application is only needed to enable the proposed density.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2020/02/28...leasants-office-building-boom-continues/

[misher]

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2020/02/28...leasants-office-building-boom-continues/

Am very happy to see 7.45 on East Broadway and hope we get above 10 closer to skytrain stations, especially for busier West Broadway. I agree that thats a lot of parking.

Btw I do read the city duo blog and appreciate your articles.

[Hmoob]

Originally Posted by misher

I agree that thats a lot of parking.

If you look at Vancouver's mode share and consider typical office densities, it's about right.

Let's get people out of their cars by providing and encouraging better alternatives. Limiting parking to levels below demand will lead to a lot of anger that spills over into the surrounding neighborhood and leads to a grumpier, more aggressive social environment for all of us.

[logan5]

Hmm. Interesting development for this section if Broadway. Falls in line with that other proposal a bit to the west though. The city is a growin’.

[GenWhy?]

Loading seems excessive for such a small building. Doing a 20-storey with 3, currently. Don't feel like doing the math. They're definitely taking the bite on cost for this with 7 levels and underground retail, but then again prelim drawings aren't "real".

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Changing City

Looks like it will be. The website also has the logo of Medica Devices (as well as Rize), who acquired the site years ago, and then discovered that they wouldn't be allowed to leave the Tim Horton's in place and build around it. Now that there's a Tim's under the station, maybe they've agreed to close down that location, or maybe their initial lease is running out.

Thanks.
Makes sense with the other close-by.

[officedweller]

Nice to see a 3 storey retail space!
(basement, street level and 2nd floor)

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

[Klazu]

I don't think this has its own thread, but 5050 Joyce Street is starting to differentiate from its midrise surroundings.

[rofina]

Originally Posted by Klazu

I don't think this has its own thread, but 5050 Joyce Street is starting to differentiate from its midrise surroundings.

I kind of forget that the Joyce area exists and also is part of Vancouver. Its neat to see it in perspective to downtown. I mind always skips over to Metrotown as the next town center.

Great shot as always, very cool perspective with the DT backdrop.

[Feathered Friend]

Protests Over West Side “Prison” Leaves Vancouver Renters Singing The Blues

3701 – 3743 West Broadway
It seems like whenever St. James Community Square hosts an open house, it is either packed with people, filled with angry voices, or often both. Still, Darren and I tried to keep an open mind, but before we left this event history had repeated itself, as over 220 individuals had stopped in. I recognized many from local media coverage, as well as a previous meeting when a six floor building was proposed here under a different program several years ago.

That concept allowed for an additional six floor expansion, as the old design team recognized that Broadway and Alma was already an important transit connection, and would only grow in the future. Yet, following the approval of the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, that vision was abandoned for this project. It seeks to provide 14 floors of rental housing with 20% dedicated to households earning between $30,000- 80,000 a year, but that aspect became a lightning rod for criticism.

This opposition did not just come from one or two isolated voices, as many expressed that city staff should be embarrassed to consider this type of housing here. My heart broke to hear other young adults, who only wanted a chance to rent a home, told they were lazy, spent too much on food, and should move out of Vancouver until they made over $300,000 a year. Others blunted stated that renters do not belong in this part of Vancouver.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2020/03/02...ves-vancouver-renters-singing-the-blues/

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2020/03/02...ves-vancouver-renters-singing-the-blues/

Sorry, but that's just ugly. You might be able to pull that off as a commercial building downtown but not at the proposed location.

[officedweller]

There's that low-rise on West 6th with corten steel bars as well
- that also looks like a prison.

[jollyburger]

BTW It's not corten steel.

As for the architectural concept, the facade will be clad with phenolic resin panels, providing the exterior with a brownish red appearance. This building material is relatively new to the local construction industry, and it was recently used for the exterior of the Tall Wood Building of the UBC Brock Residence.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3701-3743-west-broadway-vancouver-rental-housing-may-2019

[logan5]

The colour and exterior patterns deviate from what we usually see, so I like it. Actually a nice looking building.