Downtown Vancouver Updates

[Vin]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Such a slow year for proposals in Vancouver, eh?

Almost at the quality of Hamilton

For such a small city, the projects happening in downtown Hamilton 2022 are much more large scale and ambitious than any in the city of Vancouver's "human scale" developments this year. Please take a look at a couple of these:

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/...es-big-strides-on-waterfront-development

However, there are a couple of larger scale projects under construction outside the downtown core of Vancouver: namely Dogwood-Pearson and adjacent lands, Oakridge development, and River District. The other ones such as Broadway Corridor, Jericho, Heather lands and Senakw developments will take a while before happening.

Downtown district is pretty dead when it comes to exciting proposals: this isn't at all surprising.

[hollywoodnorth]

this Toronto proposal reminds me alot of THE BURRARD BUILDING @ Georgia/Burrard

I know it has no view cone above it so I would assume this is the type of project we get sooner than later out of it. Only Commercial/Hotel not Residential vertical addition.

The Toronto building was built in 1961 and the Vancouver building is 1955.

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2022/06/33-storeys-proposed-top-modernist-downtown-office-building



pic from >> https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2022/06/33-storeys-proposed-top-modernist-downtown-office-building

[Changing City]

City Council have approved the rezonings for both 36 storey rental towers proposed by Bosa4Rent at Thurlow and Harwood in the West End.

[vanman]

Great news!

[mcminsen]

Scaffolding going up now.





June 23 '22, my pics

[mcminsen]

Here are some pics I took going on seven years ago of 150 Robson Street.








Sept.14 '15, my pics

[mcminsen]

Some links to older posts and pics:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7164048#post7164048

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7165291#post7165291



Some of the discussion goes back over 11 years ago:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5271568#post5271568



And the rendering:






https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by Changing City

City Council have approved the rezonings for both 36 storey rental towers proposed by Bosa4Rent at Thurlow and Harwood in the West End.

Good to see. Happy they're rental, and they look fantastic. Just so in keeping with the West End aesthetic. It will be nice to have warm colours on a new building.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by Vin

For such a small city, the projects happening in downtown Hamilton 2022 are much more large scale and ambitious than any in the city of Vancouver's "human scale" developments this year. Please take a look at a couple of these:

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/...es-big-strides-on-waterfront-development

However, there are a couple of larger scale projects under construction outside the downtown core of Vancouver: namely Dogwood-Pearson and adjacent lands, Oakridge development, and River District. The other ones such as Broadway Corridor, Jericho, Heather lands and Senakw developments will take a while before happening.

Downtown district is pretty dead when it comes to exciting proposals: this isn't at all surprising.

It's almost like there aren't vast expanses of cheap brownfield development land in downtown Vancouver. Jfc.

[djmk]

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/526-gran...-office-tower-bonnis-properties-approved

With a height of 320 ft and a street frontage width of only 50 ft, the upcoming office tower at 526 Granville Street is bound to be a head turner.

The tower’s skinny width from the west-east perspectives and bold contemporary design rising above a heritage building will be a landmark addition to the Central Business District of downtown Vancouver.

.....

Given the retention of the heritage building and the lot’s narrow size, zero vehicle parking is planned, but there will be an underground level with 95 secured bike parking spaces

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by djmk

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/526-gran...-office-tower-bonnis-properties-approved

Nice, the slim form is quite a contrast to the side view. Funny how that stretch of Granville ends up with all these slim towers, nobody there wants to assemble?

[IMG]526-Granville-Street-Vancouver-8 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
credit: Daily Hive

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by djmk

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/526-gran...-office-tower-bonnis-properties-approved With a height of 320 ft and a street frontage width of only 50 ft, the upcoming office tower at 526 Granville Street is bound to be a head turner.

The tower’s skinny width from the west-east perspectives and bold contemporary design rising above a heritage building will be a landmark addition to the Central Business District of downtown Vancouver.

I've just noticed a detail on the minutes - this is proposed to be a strata office building. Given the failure (so far) of the same developer to sell strata offices on Robson at Seymour, it must be an open question whether this project will actually get built. It's also interesting that nobody wrote in opposition to the proposal, and nobody spoke at the public hearing. It was approved in about 30 minutes (Councillor Hardwick opposed).

[officedweller]

This one looks nicer than the Robson project and the cross-bracing looks strong.
I personally think the look of the Robson project is not appealing and looks susceptible to a major seismic event (even though its properly engineered).
Marketing plays a big role.
The onsite billboards for the Robson project do not have a rendering of the building - that says something.

I wonder what the maintenance fees would be for a strata office building like that?
I think there may also be different tax treatment for operating costs (lease payments) vs capital costs (mortgage payments) - so strata may not appeal to a wide spectrum of businesses.

[s211]

Originally Posted by officedweller

This one looks nicer than the Robson project and the cross-bracing looks strong.
I personally think the look of the Robson project is not appealing and looks susceptible to a major seismic event (even though its properly engineered).
Marketing plays a big role.
The onsite billboards for the Robson project do not have a rendering of the building - that says something.

I wonder what the maintenance fees would be for a strata office building like that?
I think there may also be different tax treatment for operating costs (lease payments) vs capital costs (mortgage payments) - so strata may not appeal to a wide spectrum of businesses.

The other thing not talked about are the property taxes on a PSF basis. When you see elevated prices for office condos versus traditional for-rent buildings, rest assured the property tax bill will be higher for the condos.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Nice, the slim form is quite a contrast to the side view. Funny how that stretch of Granville ends up with all these slim towers, nobody there wants to assemble?

[IMG]526-Granville-Street-Vancouver-8 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
credit: Daily Hive

Great-looking tower.

[jollyburger]

305 Main Street revised design

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https://shapeyourcity.ca/305-main-st

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https://www.urbanyvr.com/main-and-cordova/

[MIPS]

The Value Village over at Victoria and Hastings is currently going up in flames.
Shame. There was the tiniest little waffle iron there yesterday I should of bought.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by MIPS

The Value Village over at Victoria and Hastings is currently going up in flames.
Shame. There was the tiniest little waffle iron there yesterday I should of bought.

Sad, a lot of the east side rely on that store. Good thing they're planning a new one, although not in that area. Should this be in the retail thread, rather than Downtown?

[MIPS]

Is it considered a business closure or a property redevelopment? I honestly didn't know where to put it.

[s211]

Originally Posted by MIPS

The Value Village over at Victoria and Hastings is currently going up in flames.
Shame. There was the tiniest little waffle iron there yesterday I should of bought.

The smoke absolutely made its rounds last night. I live nowhere near there and the smoke permeated my entire apartment. I first thought that there was a fire in my apartment. That's what I get for leaving windows open, I suppose.