Downtown Vancouver Updates

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Changing City

Another 11+ FSR West End rental tower, this one at 1065 Pacific from Wall Financial. 30 existing rentals replaced with 36 below market and 144 market rental units.


[Changing City blog]

Here's the east facade.
Side loaded core.


https://vancouvermarket.ca/2023/01/19/32-storey-rental-building-proposed-for-pacific-street-site/

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Robson Street 0.37-acre development site sold for $63 million.



https://www.westerninvestor.com/done-dea...lopment-site-sold-for-63-million-6368625

Here's what's proposed immediately to the west at 1555 Robson:


https://vancouvermarket.ca/2018/08/23/28-storey-tower-proposed-for-robson-street/

[Zepfancouver]

When walking the Burrard Bridge on Friday, I was noticing a much needed cleaning, the next day a cleaning crew showed up
First wash down since the reopening of the newly upgraded Burrard Bridge 5 years ago official reopening of the newly upgraded Burrard Bridge
(The cleaning is not completed, they worked the top of the structure from 6am to 3pm)

....• Video Link

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

When walking the Burrard Bridge on Friday, I was noticing a much needed cleaning, the next day a cleaning crew showed up
First wash down since the reopening of the newly upgraded Burrard Bridge 5 years ago

Seems like they'll be back on Feb 4/5 around the same times. Must be nice to drive by and get your car showered with bird droppings

I forget did someone say they were doing additional work on those masonry piers over the bridge? There is some cracjed concrete/rebar that was never touched during those repairs.

[gaviscon]

Hopefully we get a proposal soon for the "Whole Foods" apartment building (1675 robson)
It's taking up so much space if you include the parking lot
and way more density and storefronts can be added to that plot of land.

[Jimbo604]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Here's what's proposed immediately to the west at 1555 Robson:


https://vancouvermarket.ca/2018/08/23/28-storey-tower-proposed-for-robson-street/

This seems like a major set back for Blockbuster reopening their store on this site.

[Zepfancouver]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

...I forget did someone say they were doing additional work on those masonry piers over the bridge? There is some cracjed concrete/rebar that was never touched during those repairs.

The West Pier was cleaned on Saturday and it don't look healthy.


The East Pier was not pressure washed on Saturday, it might have some issues.

[Zepfancouver]

Today, walked by this site and remembered reading of it (long time ago) on this thread, well it's still under wraps.
There were two workers on site this morning.

[jollyburger]

That's progress with the new sign.

Looked like this in 2019



https://mobile.twitter.com/mortimer_1/status/1200515693726199808/

[madog222]

Solterra has stuck a few stickers on the sign, that's some progress I guess.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by madog222

Solterra has stuck a few stickers on the sign, that's some progress I guess.

Ah I was looking at Google Maps Streetview from the other side and there was no sign there.



Credit: mcminsen

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9317002&highlight=terrace+house#post9317002

[Jimbo604]

Finally someone at city hall speaking about the impact of view cones and shadowing:

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-mountain-view-cones-shadowing-review

Some quotes:
During Mayor Ken Sim’s first annual “State of the City” address to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Tuesday afternoon, he said his ABC Vancouver party majority in City Council would look into making adjustments to both view cone and shadowing considerations.

The forthcoming review on both types of restrictions to building heights is intended to be part of a broader analysis of all the barriers to generating new housing. ...

“We need to change the question where we don’t come up with 600 reasons why we don’t do something. Instead, the question should be how do we get to ‘Yes’ if it’s a project that makes sense. What do we need to do to make this happen? How can we make your business or opportunity succeed in this city? These are the questions we should be asking, and that’s the culture I want to build in the City of Vancouver.”

[gaviscon]

Originally Posted by Jimbo604

Finally someone at city hall speaking about the impact of view cones and shadowing:

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-mountain-view-cones-shadowing-review

Some quotes:
During Mayor Ken Sim’s first annual “State of the City” address to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Tuesday afternoon, he said his ABC Vancouver party majority in City Council would look into making adjustments to both view cone and shadowing considerations.

The forthcoming review on both types of restrictions to building heights is intended to be part of a broader analysis of all the barriers to generating new housing. ...

“We need to change the question where we don’t come up with 600 reasons why we don’t do something. Instead, the question should be how do we get to ‘Yes’ if it’s a project that makes sense. What do we need to do to make this happen? How can we make your business or opportunity succeed in this city? These are the questions we should be asking, and that’s the culture I want to build in the City of Vancouver.”

Ken Sim is the BEST mayor we had as far as I can remember!

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

he is saying all the right things, we will see what the CoV looks like in 4yrs. it will be interesting because he is vastly different from the previous 2 mayors we had since 2008.

maybe some of those idiotic "unwritten" polices will get killed. or that one that killed a few floors of a building because it caused 12min of shadow over an area of a park already in the shadow of the large tree coverage.

[GenWhy?]

Do I smell an ABC move to protect "character neighbourhoods"?

[chowhou]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Do I smell an ABC move to protect "character neighbourhoods"?

How do you figure? I can't wait to see the council response to the city-wide quadra/hexplex proposal.

[GenWhy?]

4 units and 1 FSR seems pretty such status quo from today's duplex with 2 rental suites. But I'll wait until 2024 to see where it ends up

[gaviscon]

Originally Posted by Jimbo604

Finally someone at city hall speaking about the impact of view cones and shadowing:

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-mountain-view-cones-shadowing-review

Some quotes:
During Mayor Ken Sim’s first annual “State of the City” address to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Tuesday afternoon, he said his ABC Vancouver party majority in City Council would look into making adjustments to both view cone and shadowing considerations.

The forthcoming review on both types of restrictions to building heights is intended to be part of a broader analysis of all the barriers to generating new housing. ...

“We need to change the question where we don’t come up with 600 reasons why we don’t do something. Instead, the question should be how do we get to ‘Yes’ if it’s a project that makes sense. What do we need to do to make this happen? How can we make your business or opportunity succeed in this city? These are the questions we should be asking, and that’s the culture I want to build in the City of Vancouver.”

I have a feeling he had this announcement in time for the Sinclair Center?
He might already know it could be Vancouver's tallest or encouraging it to be.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

4 units and 1 FSR seems pretty such status quo from today's duplex with 2 rental suites. But I'll wait until 2024 to see where it ends up

There's a pretty big difference between 1.0 FSR and 0.7 FSR (which the duplex zoning is). So you get 4 units at 1000 sq foot each vs 2 units at 1400 square foot each. That's a pretty big jump up.

What really will be interesting to see is what will happen on the west side, where there are a lot of 50' lots that will allow 6 units. Given the desirable location and the greater number of units allowed, I think we will see a lot of movement there.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by Jimbo604

“We need to change the question where we don’t come up with 600 reasons why we don’t do something. Instead, the question should be how do we get to ‘Yes’ if it’s a project that makes sense. What do we need to do to make this happen? How can we make your business or opportunity succeed in this city? These are the questions we should be asking, and that’s the culture I want to build in the City of Vancouver.”

That sounds like an invitation to developers to start proposing projects well in excess of height restrictions that have already been laid out by the last council.

East of Main Street in Mt. Pleasant has no view cone restrictions, yet there is a paltry 300' limit on towers. I hope developers start proposing buildings much taller than 300'. Shadowing concerns make no sense when there is going to be towers everywhere.