General Vancouver Updates

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

500 West Broadway
(at Cambie)

The upper storey setback (from Cambie) is likely for the City hall view cone down Cambie.

From Changing City Updates:




https://changingcitybook.com/2017/05/10/500-west-broadway/

July 23 '20, my pic

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

June 5 '19, my pic

fullsizeoutput_80f0 by mcminsen, on Flickr

July 23 '20, my pic

[GenWhy?]

C-2 rental changes apparently got a 2000+ petition of opposition. At council today.

[Feathered Friend]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

C-2 rental changes apparently got a 2000+ petition of opposition. At council today.

I've heard that "petition" often get's recycled. It get's a name-change every time a new item comes up the group behind it dislikes.

[GenWhy?]

Yeah, you're right... I forgot 6-storey buildings are "high rises". Per the petition comments:

"No high rises in Kitsilano! Please leave this community as it is!!!"

Actually it appears most people are just upset about the Alma & Broadway tower and are signing this petition in protest to that.

[Klazu]

I cannot remember if there is a dedicated thread for the Joyce tower.

[Changing City]

There goes the neighbourhood!

In a 10-1 vote Vancouver City Council approved 81 rental homes in a four storey building at the corner of Granville St & W32nd Ave in Shaughnessy.

The one opposed was Councillor Hardwick. Councillor Swanson voted to approve the rezoning.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Changing City

There goes the neighbourhood!

In a 10-1 vote Vancouver City Council approved 81 rental homes in a four storey building at the corner of Granville St & W32nd Ave in Shaughnessy.

The one opposed was Councillor Hardwick. Councillor Swanson voted to approve the rezoning.

Finally!

Mind you several had boxed themselves into a corner by claiming they only rejected the last Shaughnessy proposal because of the hospice's objections.

[officedweller]

From Lawrence Black twitter August 3rd:


https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV


https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV

[SpongeG]

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[SpongeG]

Format by Cressey on Kingsway must be getting ready to demolish the old Rona store. they were putting fences up around the trees along the street. There is also new signage and fence banners.

The Victoria a rental building on Victoria is finished its landscaping now, looks almost complete. Looks nice, they have some artwork outside on the south side.

[Feathered Friend]

A Brighter Community Vision Sees The Pride Of Mount Pleasant Win Urban Design Panel Support

349 East 6th Avenue - (Mount Pleasant Lions Manor)
Admittedly, I’ve been eager to hear the Urban Design Panel’s thoughts on this project ever since its pre-application open house. That’s not just because the new Mount Pleasant Lion’s Manor will offer more than twice as many non-market homes as the old building, including ones large enough for families. There’s also no denying this 12 floor thin tower isn’t what one traditionally associates with the RM-4 Guidelines.

While the Mount Pleasant Community Plan, and interim Broadway Plan, both allow some relaxations for non-market housing, city staff acknowledged it was time to go further. They explained that for too long, city policy has been geared solely to home-ownership, and that it was time to create new allowances for rental and social housing, even if they exceed current plans. Had they not revealed this was the first of many similar projects to come, this meeting could have ended differently.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2020/08/12...pleasant-win-urban-design-panel-support/

[officedweller]

Good to see that one go through - being a Lions building probably helped.

[officedweller]

Pics by me Tues, Aug 11th:

The Yukon





397 West 7th

Looks the same as on July 22nd:

[Changing City]

The Morphosis- / Francl office building for Lululemon at 1980 Foley in False Creek Flats has been approved. There are the usual set of minor design tweaks to get the permit.


[source - Changing City blog]

[Changing City]

Developers have wasted no time following the successful sale of St Paul's. Here's the development application for an 81,000 square foot 10-storey office and manufacturing building (within existing zoning) to be built right next door, on the corner of Station and Prior. (Someone already posted the design; the application has now been submitted}. The old warehouse on the site was demolished this week. [source: Changing City blog]

[Feathered Friend]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The Morphosis- / Francl office building for Lululemon at 1980 Foley in False Creek Flats has been approved. There are the usual set of minor design tweaks to get the permit.

[source - Changing City blog]

Darn, we were hoping to write a recap of the recent UDP meeting before this happened. Oh well, we'll make sure to post some of the updated renderings soon.

[mcminsen]

Time for an update!

I did some searching and it seems this little project was first mentioned by hollywoodnorth on January 26th, 2011.

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

also 11th & Main Street >> http://www.amarchitects.com/11th&main.html

Here are a couple of posts from July 7th, 2015:

Originally Posted by retro_orange

Does anyone have info or renderings of the rental building going in at the northwest corner of Main and E 11th? Its where The Rumpus Room restaurant used to be. I tried scouring the internet a few months back to no avail.

Also it has taken FOREVER to even get this lowrise buildings parkade level done from when they finished excavating. Not to mention how long the building remained vacant before demolition . They should put up a project name or render at the project site. Its a serious scar to where previously was a very busy and popular spot.

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

I have some info.

It's going to be a 100% rental building, with a couple of commercial retail units at grade facing Main Street and wrapping the corner onto 11th. It's going to be 4 storeys in height, though I've got a hazy recollection that it's possibly 5 or 6? I seem to remember that it was going to potentially be one of the first new projects in the City of Vancouver to have been built under the revised BC Building Code rules that allows up to six storeys in wood frame. I seem remember something about it being taller than your standard C2 mid-rise, but we're talking a good 7 or 8 years ago that the project was made public as it went through the UDP. Unless they've changed the architectural expression, it's going to be a fairly modern-classic expression, with blue and grey as the material pallet; a combination of brick and metal panels and in the same vein as the mid-rises that Mosaic or LedMac has built in the City of Vancouver. I seem to remember that it reminded me of the project further up on Main around 27th that has brick and glass, where the liquor store is. It should be a pretty good project once built. But I'm awfully hazy at this point.

The project is/was owned and being developed by an individual guy, as opposed to one of the larger residential developers in the city, so I'm not terribly surprised that it is taking some time to come to fruition.

Hope that helps.

April 15 ’16, my pic



June 5 ’16:

Originally Posted by csbvan

191 East 11th Ave (is this project being built by one person?! It seems like it has taken 3 years to get to this stage...):

20160605_171234 by C B, on Flickr

Aug.23 '16, my pic



Dec.12 ’16, my pic



April 23rd, 2017:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Main & 11th April 12, 2017 from Journal of Commerce:


Photo: Warren Frey
http://journalofcommerce.com/Projects/News/2017/4/PHOTO-Mount-Pleasant-Goes-Natural-1023177W/

Quote:
A multi-family project in the heart of Vancouver's booming Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, 191 East 11th Avenue is designed by Ankenman Marchand Architects with sustainability as a guiding principle.
The building will contain no elevators and is lit at both ends of the structure by natural lighting as well as heated through natural cross-ventilation. No interior corridors will be used to further stabilize heating and cooling.


http://journalofcommerce.com/Projects/News/2017/4/PHOTO-Mount-Pleasant-Goes-Natural-1023177W/

May 1 '17, my pic



May 15 '17, my pic



Jan.12 '19, my pic



And finally...


Aug.23 '20, my pics

[hollywoodnorth]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Time for an update!

I did some searching and it seems this little project was first mentioned by hollywoodnorth on January 26th, 2011.



Here are a couple of posts from July 7th, 2015:






April 15 ’16, my pic



June 5 ’16:



Aug.23 '16, my pic



Dec.12 ’16, my pic



April 23rd, 2017:




May 1 '17, my pic



May 15 '17, my pic



Jan.12 '19, my pic



And finally...


Aug.23 '20, my pics

WOW eh ..... so by the looks of things this should complete sometime in the spring so 10+ years from 1st post ......

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

WOW eh ..... so by the looks of things this should complete sometime in the spring so 10+ years from 1st post ......

On July 7th, 2015 SFUVancouver said:

“…we're talking a good 7 or 8 years ago that the project was made public…”

And that the project is owned and being developed by an individual guy. So… that guy has spent maybe 13 years trying to bring this to fruition.

Also, on July 7th, 2015 retro_orange mentioned that it had taken forever to get the parkade level done after excavating. So, maybe construction started in 2014?

Maybe it will complete in 2021 but I’m wondering how they’re going to resolve those weird doors not being level with the sidewalk.




Aug.23 '20, my pic