Oakridge Park | 13 Towers | 154m | 52fl | 5M sqft | U/C - Page 78

madog222 · #**1541** Posted **Dec 15, 2021, 12:09 AM**

And don't forget the bromine smell!

jlousa · #**1542** Posted **Dec 16, 2021, 2:35 AM**

The COV's new requirements on all cooling towers, decorative water features and rain harvesting for legionnaires disease, has made it more hassle then it's worth on anything outside a signature piece. You now need to maintain logs and send out samples for lab testing. The case can be made for cooling towers, think it's overkill for water features. Don't recall there ever being an issue from one. Guess this is the easy way to have them turned off and save a minuscule amount of water.

Burrardbuilder · #**1543** Posted **Jan 7, 2022, 5:07 PM**

I wonder what would be the issues in this building after "occupancy".
Westbank has a knack for attracting building issues

officedweller · #**1544** Posted **Jan 13, 2022, 9:12 AM**

Construction update Dec 22, 2021.

Are they demolishing the NW office building?
(maybe they just mean de-cladding it?)

Quote:

December 22, 2021
In 2021, Oakridge Park:

• Poured 99,090m3 of concrete or the equivalent of 13,212 trucks. This volume would fill an NHL ice rink 65m high.
It will fill an NBA basketball court playing area 227m high.
• Used 35 million pounds of rebar (15,875,733kg). Placed end to end, it would measure just over 6,741km in length,
or roughly the distance of a return trip to New York City
• Had 24,000 dump trucks remove soil to dig out the future Oakridge parkade (stretched end to end they would
create a line nearly 500km long)
• Approximately 2100 concrete loads, 230 loads of general demo debris, 120 loads of drywall, 150 loads of metal/steel

As 2021 draws to a close, construction at Oakridge Park is accelerating. Signiﬁcant progress has been made as the buildings in Phase 1
begin to take shape. On the residential buildings Oakridge x Castiglia, Oakridge x Lissoni, Oakridge x Westbank and Oakridge x Clémande,
work up to the podium level has been progressing well, with the North Parkade, the South parkade, and parkade below the Civic building
reaching completion. With those elements ﬁnished, mechanical and electrical services are underway and being installed alongside
the structure advancement of Building 2, the Social Housing at Oakridge Park.

The remaining structures on site including the North East Office building are being prepared for demolition in January. Demolition of
the mall area is now complete and excavation has begun. Removing these buildings is an exciting step in the project, clearing the way
for signiﬁcant construction advancements in the new year. As the buildings begin to rise. Oakridge Park is starting to take shape as
Vancouver’s new town centre and cultural hub.

https://oakridgepark.com/latest-news/

hollywoodnorth · #**1545** Posted **Jan 13, 2022, 9:55 AM**

I still dont get why Westbank/Quadreal didn't buy out The Terraces at 5733 Cambie Street.

Units/Floors:
31 / 6
Built:
1985

https://www.rew.ca/buildings/9000/the-terraces-vancouver-bc

at the same time .... this property has to be a majorly prime redevelopment site once Oakridge Gardens is finished no? who owns the retail/parkade part of the building?

Also does anyone know what the history is on 5733 Cambie? was it always a separately owned site from the mall? or was it carved out of the mall property and stratified and sold off in 1985?

the Oakridge 3 Theater used to be in this building and when it closed it was renoed into the Crate and Barrel.

officedweller · #**1546** Posted **Jan 13, 2022, 11:40 PM**

My guess is they couldn't get the requisite number of owners to agree.

SpongeG · #**1547** Posted **Jan 23, 2022, 10:50 PM**

weong thread

officedweller · #**1548** Posted **Jan 24, 2022, 7:42 AM**

Cambie Gardens is the Dogwood-Pearson Lands, not Oakridge.

officedweller · #**1549** Posted **Feb 5, 2022, 8:26 AM**

From Henriquez twitter posted Feb 2nd.

Yeah, doesn't look like any of the original mall is left
- so they could have designed the project with an open walkway down in the middle to improve 24/7 access to the station.

https://twitter.com/henriquezarch

Otis_Van · #**1550** Posted **Feb 5, 2022, 4:21 PM**

Lots of new pics and updates on Daily Hive this week.

Of interest: “Plans to retain and renovate the existing north office building have been cancelled in favour of a new-build office tower…”

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**1551** Posted **Feb 5, 2022, 7:06 PM**

yet they're still keeping that ugly brick thing... sigh...

WarrenC12 · #**1552** Posted **Feb 6, 2022, 12:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

yet they're still keeping that ugly brick thing... sigh...

And the surface parking behind it...

Feathered Friend · #**1553** Posted **Feb 6, 2022, 12:33 AM**

As has been noted numerous times, there wasn't enough residents in that strata who wanted to sell their apparently seismically unstable homes.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**1554** Posted **Feb 6, 2022, 12:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

And the surface parking behind it...

they are? thats weird and a disappointment. i don't even know why CoV would let that happen. no reason a new development like this should have any surface parking...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

As has been noted numerous times, there wasn't enough residents in that strata who wanted to sell their apparently seismically unstable homes.

it would have been nice to know the offer $ and whatever else there was. i dont trust the developer at all.

officedweller · #**1555** Posted **Feb 6, 2022, 2:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

And the surface parking behind it...

Do you mean multi-storey parkade behind it?

WarrenC12 · #**1556** Posted **Feb 7, 2022, 5:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Do you mean multi-storey parkade behind it?

I thought the top was at surface level. Must be the angle.

SpongeG · #**1557** Posted **Feb 8, 2022, 1:04 AM**

yea it's the angle, it's well above ground.

mcminsen · #**1558** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 9:58 AM**

The office building along 41st Ave. has been gutted for a while now but it looks like the final demolition is starting.

Feb.24 '22, my pics

Diegotheartist1 · #**1559** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 5:54 PM**

Just to remind you, that building was built as part of the 1984 Expansion/Redevelopment of Oakridge Mall. Now it's being demolished to make way for the mid-2020s Expansion/Redevelopment of Oakridge Town Centre (Oakridge Park).

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**1560** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 8:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Diegotheartist1

Just to remind you, that building was built as part of the 1984 Expansion/Redevelopment of Oakridge Mall. Now it's being demolished to make way for the mid-2020s Expansion/Redevelopment of Oakridge Town Centre (Oakridge Park).

wow, does anyone else think this is crazy? i mean in a supposed green city Vancouver doesn't actually do anything green. they talk, raise taxes, and they do token measures that amount to nothing. when it comes to actual things, they always do nothing.

think of all the CO2 that concrete would have created plus the steel used as well. according to the EPA there was 900-1100kg of CO2/1000kg of Portland cement produced(page 6)... the building is less than 40yrs old... it is just crazy to me that a supposed "climate emergency city" just doesn't care about these things, but they care about that plastic bag or that paper cup.

insanity.

i mean its more or less par for the course. actually doing things costs money as they'd loose development fees with this development i am sure. so its easier to just create useless taxes, on already over stretched citizens, that do nothing for anything.