Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 998

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**19941** Posted **Aug 22, 2021, 9:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbanflight

Horrible.

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

Agreed, yes. But we'll "learn to love it." We're going to have to.

agreed, not a fan. but it is what it is i guess.

i miss this, personally. i think the quality of murals has gone down in recent history.

idunno · #**19942** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 6:03 AM**

I live a few blocks away and I love seeing it! It really adds a nice pop to the beach area. Fantastic!

Metro-One · #**19943** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 6:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by idunno

I live a few blocks away and I love seeing it! It really adds a nice pop to the beach area. Fantastic!

Yeah, it is perfectly fitting for the beach / warmer vibe of English Bay.

Vin · #**19944** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

That's not necessarily true. Tony Cavelti added a mural to the side of his jewelry store on West Georgia in 1993. It was touched up a bit 20 years later, and still looks fine today.

[source; Kevin Cheng, flickr on Miss 604]

And you don't know if the owner is regretting installing it in the first place after getting the bill for the "touch-up". Just saying and my point. Never said wall murals would always be ugly, just saying they would add significantly to maintenance cost compared to some other measures.

I have to say this Tony Cavelti piece of art on this wall is superb, and one of the best in the city. For the longest time I thought it was brick-work pattern.

mcminsen · #**19945** Posted **Aug 24, 2021, 5:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Aug.14 '21, my pics

A work in progress. I wonder if they'll get the final side (last pic, with the construction elevator) done before the winter rains set in.

Aug.23 '21, my pics

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mcminsen · #**19946** Posted **Aug 25, 2021, 8:05 PM**

As seen from Kits Beach.

Aug.24 '21, my pics

Feathered Friend · #**19947** Posted **Aug 25, 2021, 11:11 PM**

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Passive Innovations Help Stripped Down Rental Homes Survive City Council’s Worst Fears

1250 Granville St (DP-2019-01014)
Decisions have consequences, and city council’s referral of an amendment to allow more rental homes between Davie, and Helmcken on Granville Street back to their staff had a large impact here. Hannah and I recognize the compromise in that request for further public consultation, as Councillors De Genova, Fry, Hardwick, Bligh, and Kirby-Yung were almost able to block it outright. Their desire to protect this block’s entertainment character is understandable, yet overlooks that renters have helped shape it for decades.

Which means their decision won’t prevent people from living here, as the location of this Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and its surface parking lot already permits that use. Instead, they’ve only sapped this applicant’s confidence, who’s moved forward this concept with ~30% less residential floor area than it could have had. It also necessitated this Urban Design Panel review as city staff had to get permission to relax a “development containment angle” to facilitate this mass timber, modular constructed, passive house structure.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2021/08/25...homes-survive-city-councils-worst-fears/

whatnext · #**19948** Posted **Aug 25, 2021, 11:19 PM**

Who would want to live on that stretch of Granville (who didn't have to)?

jollyburger · #**19949** Posted **Aug 25, 2021, 11:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Who would want to live on that stretch of Granville (who didn't have to)?

You assume no one would be stupid to buy strata there which is why it's rental.

jollyburger · #**19950** Posted **Aug 25, 2021, 11:52 PM**

They were gutting the 952-968 Granville Street buildings I assume for demolition?

https://www.avisonyoung.ca/properties?propertyId=980-granville-street

Changing City · #**19951** Posted **Aug 26, 2021, 12:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

They were gutting the 952-968 Granville Street buildings I assume for demolition?

https://www.avisonyoung.ca/properties?propertyId=980-granville-street

I noticed the units were being stripped out. I'm guessing that Avison Young link could do with an update - "Available first quarter 2022" is beyond a stretch. And of course, there no guarantee that the site won't just sit, cleared, like the 600 Robson (at Seymour) site the same developer cleared a year ago.

Metro-One · #**19952** Posted **Aug 26, 2021, 1:00 AM**

That store frontage is boring as fuck for Granville.

No lighting, no signage.

Also the residential units seem to start way too low on that tower.

Office or hotel would be far better options above the commercial for this project.

s211 · #**19953** Posted **Aug 26, 2021, 2:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Who would want to live on that stretch of Granville (who didn't have to)?

Wait, are you telling me the clip-art toddlers in the renderings are at best aspirational? Wouldn't be the first time that architects have tried to sell hell as heaven.

rofina · #**19954** Posted **Aug 26, 2021, 4:59 PM**

Why are we putting housing along Granville at all?

This street should be closed to traffic and filled with pubs, bars, entertainment and eateries.

This is horrible planning.

whatnext · #**19955** Posted **Aug 26, 2021, 6:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

Why are we putting housing along Granville at all?

This street should be closed to traffic and filled with pubs, bars, entertainment and eateries.

This is horrible planning.

Because filling it with bars and pubs has worked out so well for Vancouver. Let the bridge and tunnel crowd party and puke in their own 'hood.

Migrant_Coconut · #**19956** Posted **Aug 26, 2021, 10:27 PM**

Because having the cops split their attention between twenty different party spaces around the city instead of one central one is really going to help with law and order.

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Originally Posted by rofina

Why are we putting housing along Granville at all?

This street should be closed to traffic and filled with pubs, bars, entertainment and eateries.

This is horrible planning.

The pubs, eateries and entertainment are still allowed, the City's just stacking housing on top of them. I highly doubt the new residents will be able to force the strip to quiet down - they were there first!

So long as Granville's still a transit street, by all means, close the whole thing. Moving the buses to Howe and Seymour is annoying for everybody, and here's the math to prove it.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**19957** Posted **Aug 27, 2021, 7:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

I highly doubt the new residents will be able to force the strip to quiet down - they were there first!

haha oh no don't bet on that in this city. doesn't matter who was there first.

jollyburger · #**19958** Posted **Aug 28, 2021, 7:30 PM**

I think the Westbank crane in the Gastown Blood Alley project is being brought down.

jollyburger · #**19959** Posted **Aug 31, 2021, 8:41 AM**

Some PDF that were included in the recent RFP for the Sinclair Centre Redevelopment:

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Pre Design / Indicative Schematic Design Summer 2021 – Fall 2022
P3 RFP: Preparation / Procurement Fall 2021 – Fall 2023
P3: Award / Design + Construction (Core/Shell) Fall 2023 – Fall 2028
Functional Planning / Design / Construction 2025-2031
Occupancy 2029-2031

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Project Size, Scale and Functional Planning
Site: approx. 6,200sm
Site Master Planning: approx.. 125-150,000sm gfa
Schematic Design: approx. 75,000sm
Occupancy:
x Office Space for Government of Canada (Private / Special Purpose, Semi-Private / Public Facing)
– approx. 65,000sm
o Generic Office Space: approx. 40,000sm (approx 10% public facing component)
o Special Purpose Office Space: approx. 25,000sm
o Approx 3,000 work points for 6,000 ftes
o Approx 15 departments (ranging from 2,000-15,000sm each)
x Ground Floor: Retail – approx. 3,000sm
Parking: approx. 1-2 levels of underground bike parking, car parking and loading (approx.200 cars, 15
van/truck loading spaces, 1000 bikes / end of trip facilities)

https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2021.../ABES.PROD.PW_TPV.B019.E8981.EBSU000.PDF

They have a giant blob of a building on the entire site (2020 project brief) for all your heritage fans

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The Downtown Official Development Plan limits height on the Sinclair Centre site to 137.2m. This height is indicated by a blue plane on the adjacent diagrams. The protected view cones impose additional restrictions on building height. The most restrictive view cone (3.2.3 View from Queen Elizabeth Park), for the Sinclair Centre site is indicated by a yellow plane. Various massing options were explored to find the right balance between the four project pillars. With a site footprint of an entire city block it is important that the massing is not oppressive to the heritage buildings below. Limiting the size of the floor plate and setting the massing back from the site edges to respect the heritage buildings results in a more vertical massing.

https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2021...ndix_f_-_project_brief_part_2_-_main.pdf

Vancouver_Highrise · #**19960** Posted **Aug 31, 2021, 2:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Some PDF that were included in the recent RFP for the Sinclair Centre Redevelopment:

https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2021.../ABES.PROD.PW_TPV.B019.E8981.EBSU000.PDF

They have a giant blob of a building on the entire site (2020 project brief) for all your heritage fans

upload images

https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2021...ndix_f_-_project_brief_part_2_-_main.pdf

yup.. apparently it will be a 16 story huge fat blob in downtown.