Surrey City Centre Redevelopment Plans - Page 96

SpongeG · #**1901** Posted **Sep 14, 2020, 2:54 PM**

I saw a sign that I think it said 36 units of modular housing on KGH at 80th ave, at the site of a now closed up restaurant.

jlove390 · #**1902** Posted **Sep 15, 2020, 5:57 AM**

SkyTrain project includes four-lane widening of Fraser Highway in Green Timbers

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-l...nVfFYSPOhyzpQ3xSjqbUsw3KXA5oGhMFDOivbDLM

Equinox71 · #**1903** Posted **Sep 15, 2020, 12:52 PM**

Surrey council gives nod to numerous towers, townhouses

https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/surrey-council-gives-nod-to-numerous-towers-townhouses/

EhJay · #**1904** Posted **Sep 15, 2020, 9:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by jlove390

SkyTrain project includes four-lane widening of Fraser Highway in Green Timbers

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-l...nVfFYSPOhyzpQ3xSjqbUsw3KXA5oGhMFDOivbDLM

Saw this coming. That'll be a lot of trees to cut down that many people will be unhappy about though. Glad to see SkyTrain taking steps to move forwards.

Hoping for 2022 construction start with 2025 finish.

rpvan · #**1905** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 5:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Equinox71

Surrey council gives nod to numerous towers, townhouses

https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/surrey-council-gives-nod-to-numerous-towers-townhouses/

Always great to see. This should ease fears of a potential construction slowdown over the next few years.

GMasterAres · #**1906** Posted **Sep 18, 2020, 4:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by EhJay

Saw this coming. That'll be a lot of trees to cut down that many people will be unhappy about though. Glad to see SkyTrain taking steps to move forwards.

Hoping for 2022 construction start with 2025 finish.

There was one group upset in the past but the article points out they have been made satisfied with the proposal. Surrey also added more trees to the south end of green timbers by extending the boundary so ultimately with construction, Green Timbers is gaining total trees.

Besides that, a few trees along a major corridor will have a 0.0000000000000001% affect on global pollution levels.

scryer · #**1907** Posted **Sep 18, 2020, 4:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by jhausner

There was one group upset in the past but the article points out they have been made satisfied with the proposal. Surrey also added more trees to the south end of green timbers by extending the boundary so ultimately with construction, Green Timbers is gaining total trees.

Besides that, a few trees along a major corridor will have a 0.0000000000000001% affect on global pollution levels.

Couple that with the amount of CO2 reduced from vehicle emissions with the Skytrain extension... It should be an environmentalist's dream.

e-clam9 · #**1908** Posted **Sep 19, 2020, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by jhausner

Besides that, a few trees along a major corridor will have a 0.0000000000000001% affect on global pollution levels.

Don't underestimate the 0.0000000000000001% effect. If our sun is 0.0000000000000001% hotter or colder, we may be all doomed.

If every city helps to lower our global warming by 0.0000000000000001%, then we can reverse the global warming

MovieBuff · #**1909** Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 11:29 PM**

Health, tech sectors key to developing new downtown Surrey

https://renx.ca/health-tech-key-surrey-new-development-downtown/

Blease · #**1910** Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 2:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by MovieBuff

Health, tech sectors key to developing new downtown Surrey

https://renx.ca/health-tech-key-surrey-new-development-downtown/

The bigger takeaway from the article was the future of the Centre Block:

“He wants to see greater density of office space, particularly on a former recreation centre site known as Centre Block. The site, owned by the city and Simon Fraser University, is adjacent to the City Centre SkyTrain station, and has development potential for two million square feet of space.

The SCDC completed a master plan last year and is submitting for rezoning this year. It will be one of the corporation’s final projects. The city announced in June it would dissolve the SCDC and transition real estate assets and operations to the city.

Heeney believes the key to Centre Block’s success will be a major tenant, such as offices for senior government, which typically requires 10s of thousands of square feet of space, or more.

“One of my big pushes before I depart, is to try and get as much momentum as I possibly can for this project,” he said. “The challenge is generating an order of magnitude of adjacent office development, to really tip the balance, and create that critical mass for a central business district — that’s the big challenge.””

Nites · #**1911** Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 5:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Blease

The bigger takeaway from the article was the future of the Centre Block:

“He wants to see greater density of office space, particularly on a former recreation centre site known as Centre Block. The site, owned by the city and Simon Fraser University, is adjacent to the City Centre SkyTrain station, and has development potential for two million square feet of space.

The SCDC completed a master plan last year and is submitting for rezoning this year. It will be one of the corporation’s final projects. The city announced in June it would dissolve the SCDC and transition real estate assets and operations to the city.

Heeney believes the key to Centre Block’s success will be a major tenant, such as offices for senior government, which typically requires 10s of thousands of square feet of space, or more.

“One of my big pushes before I depart, is to try and get as much momentum as I possibly can for this project,” he said. “The challenge is generating an order of magnitude of adjacent office development, to really tip the balance, and create that critical mass for a central business district — that’s the big challenge.””

So basically he is implying that he wants a 50 story pure office building in the centre block. Seems a like a plan to me.

e-clam9 · #**1912** Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 6:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by MovieBuff

Health, tech sectors key to developing new downtown Surrey

https://renx.ca/health-tech-key-surrey-new-development-downtown/

Tech companies like to get closer to university and SFU is expanding there.

When the future high speed railway between Seattle and King George Station arrives, it will help the area a lot too. As you know Seattle is also a tech heavy city.

dferch · #**1913** Posted **Sep 30, 2020, 5:43 AM**

I would be SO down to work for SCDC through the development of the centre block. This is going to be an exciting project no matter how tall the buildings end up being. If anyone has connections with the developer let me know hahah

rpvan · #**1914** Posted **Oct 1, 2020, 2:06 AM**

There was also some noise a while back about the federal government potentially building some offices in surrey, presumably in the centre block.

Reecemartin · #**1915** Posted **Oct 4, 2020, 1:25 AM**

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MOOVA · #**1916** Posted **Oct 4, 2020, 5:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by rpvan

There was also some noise a while back about the federal government potentially building some offices in surrey, presumably in the centre block.

Hopefully the don't get cold feet like the YMCA did.

rpvan · #**1917** Posted **Oct 12, 2020, 6:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by MOOVA

Hopefully the don't get cold feet like the YMCA did.

Hopefully not.

Unfortunately given the covid situation which has delayed several projects, I don't think we'll see any new construction on the centre block for a couple years.

jlove390 · #**1918** Posted **Oct 13, 2020, 7:41 PM**

BC NDP announce platform promise of new medical school at SFU Surrey campus

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ndp-s...uwLawtrZBdsFLNGl1WX5bfeJG2fUeqeJfAMhZuWY

rpvan · #**1919** Posted **Oct 16, 2020, 1:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlove390

BC NDP announce platform promise of new medical school at SFU Surrey campus

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ndp-s...uwLawtrZBdsFLNGl1WX5bfeJG2fUeqeJfAMhZuWY

Just saw that as well. Good news.

I think they had previously allocated land on the parking lot between the campus and bus loop for future campus expansions. Is that where the new medical school will be built?

EhJay · #**1920** Posted **Oct 16, 2020, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by rpvan

Just saw that as well. Good news.

I think they had previously allocated land on the parking lot between the campus and bus loop for future campus expansions. Is that where the new medical school will be built?

Be a pretty speedy build if they are going to have the 2023-2024 grads graduating.