Downtown Vancouver Updates

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by NewfBC

There's no reason, especially with this addition, that they can't match the original design. Sure it would cost more for the windows, etc.. but the city could force this if they wanted.

Ron.

The intention is to have a contrast so you can see what was originally built, and what's new.

[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The intention is to have a contrast so you can see what was originally built, and what's new.

And it works - you've got two different eras of Vancouver stacked on top of each other like Lego.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The intention is to have a contrast so you can see what was originally built, and what's new.

Except it doesn't really contrast enough. The Post got it right, this is using too similar a colour and window pattern.

[gaviscon]

Such a slow year for proposals in Vancouver, eh?

Almost at the quality of Hamilton

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by s211

If this city honestly believes that pedestrians are number one, then maybe it should FINALLY WIDEN SOME BLOODY SIDEWALKS!

it cares about bikes. bikes are #1.

re: see the seawall/arbutus greenway in the snow.

[zahav]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Such a slow year for proposals in Vancouver, eh?

Almost at the quality of Hamilton

Yup exactly, Vancouver is exactly like Hamilton, basically the same city and status, hard to tell them apart even

[hollywoodnorth]

Another Rental Project for the Victory Square Area >>
https://vancouvermarket.ca/2022/06/01/128-unit-rental-building-proposed-for-downtown-site/


And the other Rental Project in that part of town .......... Hoarding is now going up at the 2nd site in the 424-428 and 454 West Pender project .... so 454 West Pender. so both seem to be a go.

[vanman]

I did the Grind for the first time this season and couldn't help but notice how much denser downtown was looking from the gondola. Metrotown too but I didn't get a shot of it this time.

[scryer]

Originally Posted by dleung

Lol I have

My apologies. I obviously missed your post there .

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Such a slow year for proposals in Vancouver, eh?

Almost at the quality of Hamilton

There is a list of recent rezonings here:

https://shapeyourcity.ca/rezoning

I think that's 32 buildings proposed this year for rezoning alone so far, then add up all the "proposals" and Development Permit only applications. The the like 30 enquiries that will be applied for later this month in Broadway.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

April 10 '22, my pic

June 5 '22, my pics

[zahav]

Love this infill, packs in quite a lot in such a small space. Will bring some nice, different kind of density right to the seawall. Like the idea of pairing the housing with a school too, smart use of space for public land

[vanman]

I like this project but wish it had some warmer tones. The white on white facade is a bit much and will probably be mostly green with algae slime a few years after it's built.

[whatnext]

What an overprivileged wanker this guy continues to be:

Vancouver penthouse owner sues strata for vacancy tax in fight over common area
Concord Pacific CEO and Erickson penthouse owner Terry Hui alleges the strata council has delayed completion of penthouse during the fight over the common area, leading to the City of Vancouver charging a vacancy tax
Author of the article: Joanne Lee-Young
Publishing date: Jun 06, 2022

Penthouse owner Terry Hui is suing the other strata owners at a luxury Yaletown condo in a continuing fight over a common area of the building.

Hui, president and CEO of development company Concord Pacific, filed the lawsuit demanding repayment of what he has been paying for a few years in vacancy taxes.

Hui has been battling other owners over the use of a 6,000-square-foot space that is on the second floor of The Erickson, a 17-storey building with 60 units on northern False Creek’s seawall.

After the City of Vancouver issued an order last fall saying all residents in the building should have access to the space rather than only Hui, “several unauthorized video cameras were installed (presumably by agents working on behalf of the penthouse owner) and the locks were changed yet again,” according to the strata president’s report at a recent annual general meeting...

... In a notice of claim filed in March with the Supreme Court of B.C., Hui alleges the strata “delayed consent for a building permit for (his) unfinished penthouse, which has purportedly delayed him in being able to build out and complete his unfinished two-storey unit,” said the president’s recent AGM report.

Hui is seeking the amount he paid to the City of Vancouver for its empty homes tax as assessed on his penthouse unit in the building for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 tax years, plus interest at a commercial rate....

https://vancouversun.com/business/real-e...or-vacancy-tax-in-fight-over-common-area

[Zepfancouver]

Originally Posted by whatnext

What an overprivileged wanker this guy continues to be:

[I]Vancouver penthouse owner sues strata for vacancy tax in fight over common area...

That's fine with me, these are the problems I would like to be in or deal with.
I like to think that ever person who can afford to live there (every suite is $4 million and more) are in real estate, land development, property investor or contractor, they know how they got there.
Swindler swindlee everyone is getting swindled. Capitalism, you gotta love it.

[nonimbysallowed]

swindlers have existed way before capitalism, and will survive well beyond.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by vanman

Interesting that it's by a Montreal based developer. Is that a first for Vancouver?

Brivia is owned by Chinese investors that sell almost exclusively in China.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Brivia is owned by Chinese investors that sell almost exclusively in China.

Wow, what a surprise.

[jollyburger]

Brivia also bought that West Van project from Henson that wanted the gondola

https://briviagroup.ca/project/wentworth/

Henson is supposedly still a silent partner on the project.

[officedweller]

By me today:

On Barclay St. between Thurlow and Burrard: