Downtown Vancouver Updates

[madog222]

Thanks

[idunno]

The Rec Room Granville - slowest project on the street's history!

[Jimbo604]

855 Granville


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historic ground level parking lot - one of the last few remaining
SE corner Seymour St and Nelson St


SW corner Robson and Seymour
Rock pile still there. Nothing much else happening.


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Nothing doing at 450 W Georgia possible future site of super boring looking office building: ShapeYourCityLink: "This application has been approved by Council on June 29, 2021, following the Public Hearing on June 15, 2021."

Oh no, gaviscon scooped some of my updates. Well here you go with duplicates.

[jollyburger]

Colliers Project Leaders has been selected by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) to be the public-private partnership (P3) advisor on the Sinclair Centre Redevelopment Project in joint venture with Tiree.

Colliers Project Leaders, the building project management division of the commercial real estate firm Colliers International, will provide P3 commercial and procurement advisory services – including facility management (FM) advisory services on the project.

Located at 757 West Hastings Street in the heart of downtown Vancouver, B.C., the Sinclair Centre consists of four heritage buildings originally built between 1910 and 1940. Spanning an entire city block, the centre currently houses an upscale retail mall, federal offices and Services Canada office.

With an estimated construction cost of more than $500 million, the P3 redevelopment project will include design, heritage conservation, new construction, tenant fit-up and maintenance of approximately 11,000 sq. m. of space. The project will create a modern and sustainable federal hub in Vancouver that respects heritage, historical and cultural influences.

The redevelopment is an opportunity to revitalize the Sinclair Centre by enhancing heritage conservation; upgrading seismic requirements; integrating Indigenous, social and cultural considerations; advancing sustainability and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction; and updating federal office space to meet future needs.

“We are thrilled about this mandate to support PSPC as a P3 Advisor, working in joint venture with Tiree,” said Stephen Lidington, Colliers Project Leaders’ managing director and lead P3 Advisor on the Sinclair Centre. “This hallmark redevelopment will transform Vancouver’s skyline and embed core principles – such as net-zero construction, sustainability and Indigenous inclusion – that align with our own corporate values and the work we do in communities across Canada.”

A request for proposals (RFP) process for the P3 consortium is expected to be launched in 2024 with the contract awarded in 2025.

I wonder what the transform the skyline statement means

https://www.reminetwork.com/articles/p3-advisor-selected-for-sinclair-centre-project/

[gaviscon]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

I wonder what the transform the skyline statement means

https://www.reminetwork.com/articles/p3-advisor-selected-for-sinclair-centre-project/

Transform skyline as in appear in the waterfront skyline view while conforming to the established contour, probably

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Transform skyline as in appear in the waterfront skyline view while conforming to the established contour, probably

So maybe 35-40 storeys if they want to punch into the skyline?

[madog222]

Previously (9 years ago) they said they will be respecting the view cone limit which means ~29 storeys max.

That means the same height as 320 Granville but with floor plates three times bigger.

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by madog222

Previously (9 years ago) they said they will be respecting the view cone limit which means ~29 storeys max.

That means the same height as 320 Granville but with floor plates three times bigger.

Not excited for that at all…

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Transform skyline as in appear in the waterfront skyline view while conforming to the established contour, probably

lets hope not. i would like to see something crazy cool, ignoring the CoV policies. this is literally one of the only places where the CoV policies can be ignored.

[officedweller]

It'll probably end up like the Hudson's Bay project or The Post
- big, bulky block(s) on top of the heritage buildings.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

It'll probably end up like the Hudson's Bay project of The Post
- big, bulky block(s) on top of the heritage buildings.

That's what I'm afraid of, too.

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by idunno

The Rec Room Granville - slowest project on the street's history!

I was thinking of that the other day when I was downtown, I wondered if it had stopped or something.

[gaviscon]

Originally Posted by officedweller

It'll probably end up like the Hudson's Bay project or The Post
- big, bulky block(s) on top of the heritage buildings.

I'd be surprised if it's anything other than a glass box or
a series of stacked boxes.
And I bet it's not even going to be tall.
It's a shame. If we were a "normal" North American city without viewcones we would be expecting a 250m landmark at the least for this type of prime piece of land.

[dreambrother808]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

I was thinking of that the other day when I was downtown, I wondered if it had stopped or something.

I wonder if it's intentional. Is movie-going attendance back to where it was pre-pandemic? It seems like the pandemic created a slowdown in production that has hampered that.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by dreambrother808

I wonder if it's intentional. Is movie-going attendance back to where it was pre-pandemic? It seems like the pandemic created a slowdown in production that has hampered that.

There's no movie theatre in a Rec Room - games, food and entertainment. As far as I casn see, construction work has been continuous at the site - just very, very slow.

[jollyburger]

Random Redditor said they kept changing the design so that's the reason for the delay (FWIW).

[officedweller]

For the Rec Room building, there's a full roof on the middle and south buildings now,
but still no roof on any of the old Coronet (?) theatre building on the north side.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

I wonder what the transform the skyline statement means

https://www.reminetwork.com/articles/p3-advisor-selected-for-sinclair-centre-project/

They really need to leave much of the heritage elements alone. The Bay's proposal is already one sad episode. The beautiful internal heritage columns and ceiling on the 6th floor will be history if they only keep the facades. That's not heritage conservation: that is heritage bastardization and destruction.

[Spr0ckets]

Related

And also, apt for this discussion-

"Staff with the City of Vancouver are set to embark on an area planning process to guide future redevelopments within downtown Vancouver’s Granville Entertainment District, and the area’s revitalization.

The new 18-month planning process would span the properties along both sides of a six-city-block stretch of Granville Street between Robson Street and Drake Street, as well as a myriad of considerations to catalyze new office and retail uses, enhance cultural uses, retain heritage character, and improve people-friendly public spaces and access to public transit.

This specifically includes improving the reliability and efficiency of public transit buses on the Granville Strip. The last time the street and entertainment district’s public spaces underwent a complete redesign was just before the 2010 Olympics."

Source :

Maybe we'll finally get some movement on the City trying to get its hands around the rapidly deteriorating homeless situation in the area and make an attempt to deal with it, instead of past administrations just trying to pretend it doesn't exist.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/granville-street-planning-program-vancouver

[TwoFace]

Interesting. Does this mean that there will be a freeze on current "shoulder area" applications?