Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 925

officedweller · #**18481** Posted **May 29, 2020, 6:48 PM**

See the Bike/Pedestrian Thread for pics of the Richards St. Bike Lane north of Dunsmuir.
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8936326#post8936326

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Pic by me yesterday of the lot at Richards & Pender:

officedweller · #**18482** Posted **May 29, 2020, 6:58 PM**

401 West Georgia / 402 Dunsmuir

Pics by me yesterday May 28, 2020

I predict the black low wall will see nighttime car crash damage.

Vin · #**18483** Posted **May 29, 2020, 9:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

401 West Georgia / 402 Dunsmuir

Pics by me yesterday May 28, 2020

I predict the black low wall will see nighttime car crash damage.

A couple of bright yellow bollards along it should do the trick. But of course the City may not allow that.

This building feels so 60s/institutional on the ground. Like an FBI office or something similar.

officedweller · #**18484** Posted **May 31, 2020, 1:35 AM**

Pic by me last night.

That reno project at Drake & Homer in Yaletown:

dreambrother808 · #**18485** Posted **May 31, 2020, 5:21 PM**

The entire frontage of the future Rec Room on Granville has been fenced off with plywood, taking up most of the sidewalk in evident readiness for construction. So excited to see that finally moving forward.

zahav · #**18486** Posted **Jun 1, 2020, 5:18 AM**

Yes definitely glad to see Rec Room starting, parts of Granville are really really rough, and that frontage is basically a homeless camp

officedweller · #**18487** Posted **Jun 1, 2020, 8:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

An interesting re-clad proposal, I think some will like and some will hate:

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2020/05/28/333-seymour-to-undergo-reclad-and-add-rooftop-amenity/

At least they are keeping the dome on the roof, but blocking it from view with the cornice,
but also incorporating its curve into the rooftop amenity.
Strange hodgepodge...

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2020/05/28/333-seymour-to-undergo-reclad-and-add-rooftop-amenity/

domusile · #**18488** Posted **Jun 1, 2020, 3:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

Is it Morguard that's running with this, or did they lose management of this building along with the adjacent development site? If the former, they recently also reskinned a building in Edmonton and sucked all the individuality out of that building too (I'm assuming they still manage that Edmonton building; Morguard has been losing clients this past while).

PCI took over management and development of 333 Seymour as well as the 601 development.

s211 · #**18489** Posted **Jun 1, 2020, 5:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by domusile

PCI took over management and development of 333 Seymour as well as the 601 development.

Interesting. Thanks for clarifying. Guess I can't slag Morguard for this!

dreambrother808 · #**18490** Posted **Jun 1, 2020, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by zahav

Yes definitely glad to see Rec Room starting, parts of Granville are really really rough, and that frontage is basically a homeless camp

There's no room for them to camp out in front anymore.

Klazu · #**18491** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 3:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by dreambrother808

There's no room for them to camp out in front anymore.

Oh dear, what are the poor and vulnerable campers now going to do and where can they now urinate? /s

I have never understood how The Bay has allowed their Granville side wall turn into a Skid Row. This city is really following Tenderloin's example...

dreambrother808 · #**18492** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 5:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Oh dear, what are the poor and vulnerable campers now going to do and where can they now urinate? /s

I have never understood how The Bay has allowed their Granville side wall turn into a Skid Row. This city is really following Tenderloin's example...

That side of the Bay was cleaned up and seating was placed there a while ago. Not sure how it has fared recently though.

officedweller · #**18493** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 6:11 AM**

It looked okay last week.

Marshal · #**18494** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 8:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Oh dear, what are the poor and vulnerable campers now going to do and where can they now urinate? /s

I have never understood how The Bay has allowed their Granville side wall turn into a Skid Row. This city is really following Tenderloin's example...

What a kind way to make your point. Such generosity of spirit towards your weakest of fellows.

SpongeG · #**18495** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 9:13 AM**

Does anyone know the story of this lot downtown? is it an old sales centre? why was the site never built on and just empty etc?

2020-06-01_05-18-30 by snub_you, on Flickr

cairnstone · #**18496** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 2:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Does anyone know the story of this lot downtown? is it an old sales centre? why was the site never built on and just empty etc?

2020-06-01_05-18-30 by snub_you, on Flickr

i believe that is owned by concord pacific. It maybe one of the lots that was left for social housing. DO you know the address

ericmacm · #**18497** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 3:02 PM**

The 601 West Pender and 619-685 West Hastings office towers have both been approved.

Graham_Yvr · #**18498** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by ericmacm

The 601 West Pender and 619-685 West Hastings office towers have both been approved.

Great news. These are both nice looking towers.

SpongeG · #**18499** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by cairnstone

i believe that is owned by concord pacific. It maybe one of the lots that was left for social housing. DO you know the address

it could be 447 Beach Crscent.I've seen the fence for years but i never looked to see what was behind it till the other day.

jollyburger · #**18500** Posted **Jun 2, 2020, 11:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

it could be 447 Beach Crscent.I've seen the fence for years but i never looked to see what was behind it till the other day.

Isn't it 431?

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Concord Pacific owns six sites in the former Expo lands that have been undeveloped for decades. The new memorandum of understanding proposes transferring ownership of three of the sites — 450 Pacific St., 990 Beatty St. and 1050 Expo Blvd. — to the City of Vancouver to build affordable non-market housing, using funding from the provincial government, and rezoning the remaining three sites — 1502 Granville St., 431 Beach Ave. and 900 Cooperage Way — for mixed-use market housing, which Concord Pacific would own and develop.

https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/h...ordable-housing-on-expo-lands-1.23485536

They mentioned that they might get rezoned in 2019 and developed sometime in 2020

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...n-affordable-housing-plan-was-inevitable