Rupert - Renfrew Area Updates

[twoNeurons]

Interesting stuff. The Italian Cultural Centre was going to go ahead and get Bosa to redevelop their lands between Slocan and Nanaimo. It was going to be a mixed-use commercial/condo development, but the Italian community shot it down.

It has a giant parking area ripe for redevelopment.

Kind of annoying that they exclude the one residential SFH block between Renfrew and Kaslo south of Broadway. If they decided to include that, prices for that land would skyrocket... but now, it will be slowly bought up by developers while it's zoned as SFH and at a future time (sooner rather than later, I would think) they'll petition to upzone it. It's the perfect place for some mid-rises on the hill facing south.

There's also a government building on Grandview/Kaslo that has a sign up building a low-rise mixed use building.

In any case, this is a welcome change and I don't think it's too late, I think you had to wait until market forces started to really look at the area and you needed to have the broadway tech centre built out first before you looked at planning the rest of the area.

This area is more desirable than the Gilmore area IMHO, being within walking distance of Commercial Drive.