Burnaby Updates

[VarBreStr18]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Nice find!
Maybe part of Lumina?

The fourth and last Lumina should be the one to the east of Milano (the ghost tower in the rendering). This will be on the site of the existing presentation center, also closes to the railway track and Costco. Wonder what will be the developer of the proposed 41 storey tower? which will be right at the corner of Dawson/Alpha.

[skylinegazer]

this page says Aurmon Development - http://www2.dikeakos.com/projects/ga...dawson-&-alpha

[owenhujb]

In this rendering Gold House appears to be around the same height as Metroplace - Anyone know why the official height hasn't been announced?

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by owenhujb

In this rendering Gold House appears to be around the same height as Metroplace - Anyone know why the official height hasn't been announced?

Metroplace is taller than Gold House as far as I know (not sure of the exact height in meters).

This rendering skews things a little because of the perspective angle.

The new building (the Maywood) is 31 stories tall, which means it's nowhere near the height of either Metroplace or Gold House.

[Lexus]

My photo from 2018-12-08
Fence is up and old buildings are down.

Untitled by Dmytro Zhukovets, on Flickr

[Klazu]

Yeah, I was surprised to see them having already cleared the lot. I was somehow thinking these two would be right across from Metroplace and fronting Telford Avenue, but apparently there is a place for one more tower at the corner of Telford and Beresford?

It's going to be quite an impressive row of towers along Beresford.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Metroplace is taller than Gold House as far as I know (not sure of the exact height in meters).

I think they are turning out to be almost same height, as Gold House has some really high floor heights despite only 41 floors vs. 46 on Metroplace. Before we moved out, it looked like Gold House penthouse level would be very similar to that of Metroplace's so I wouldn't be surprised to find both to be ~140 meters in height.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Yeah, I was surprised to see them having already cleared the lot. I was somehow thinking these two would be right across from Metroplace and fronting Telford Avenue, but apparently there is a place for one more tower at the corner of Telford and Beresford?

It's going to be quite an impressive row of towers along Beresford.

That lot's already taken and a project is currently in development there called 'The Telford'

Forummer Skylinegazer posted a link a few posts back showing a rendering from Chris Dikeakos Architects who are the ones designing it
It has a pretty eye-catching lattice-framework on the facades and although the perspective angle is a little odd, it seems like it might have a height comparable to Metroplace (Seeems to be anywhere around 43 floors or higher from what I could count, although more likely higher since there's probably more then one penthouse level and an elevator overrun level):-

http://www2.dikeakos.com/projects/gallery-view/telford


It's by a developer named Westland and as far as I can tell, it's only one tower on that lot and not 2 like the Thind Development next door.


That only leaves one last solitary lot on Beresford ave. with the potential for a tower development (at the corner of Dow and Beresford across the street and opposite from Moda), and according to Vancouvermarket.ca it was sold off this year for just under $60 Million to a developer who already owned the adjacent site and the plan I imagine will be to combine the two lots for a multi-tower project.
The combined value of the two lots was/is $102 Million.
So that should give you an idea of the scale of the development that might happen on those sites.

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/1...deals-of-2018/

(it's #9 on the list at 6645 Dow Avenue, Burnaby)

[Vin]

Excited with all the new developments in the area south of Metrotown Station. They should make McKay and Silver Avenues new retail and commercial streets. If they are serious about turning Metrotown into Burnaby's downtown, that's the least they can do here.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

That lot's already taken and a project is currently in development there called 'The Telford'

Thanks, I hadn't seen that! That design is already starting to look boring with so many copycats, but it will do well in this area.

While these towers will be impressive, car traffic on the 2-lane Beresford is going to be brutal and constant. If only Burnaby would be as progressive with car infrastructure as it is in tower building.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Thanks, I hadn't seen that! That design is already starting to look boring with so many copycats, but it will do well in this area.

While these towers will be impressive, car traffic on the 2-lane Beresford is going to be brutal and constant. If only Burnaby would be as progressive with car infrastructure as it is in tower building.

I was under the impression that the city's plan was to eventually convert Beresford street (at least for the length of the Tower row spanning the Skytrian station from Moda all the way to Modello) into a pedestrian street and artwalk type street with no vehicle traffic except crossing into the towers' blocks.

In fact, IvanHoe Cambridge (owners of Metropolis mall and landlords of the land that the bus loop currently sits on) had proposed and hoped to transfer part or all of the Bus loop from it's current location to some section of Beresford back when they were still planning the Skytrain station re-design (in the hopes of eventually placing a MetroTower IV in the location of the current Bus Loop) but that plan was very quickly and summarily shot down by the city even after some of the architect's renderings (VIA Architects) had leaked showing that design scheme.

I don't know if that's still the plan as of now, but if so, brutal car traffic on Beresford might end up being the least of your concerns (or out of your concerns, with a headache of a different kind).

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Thanks, I hadn't seen that! That design is already starting to look boring with so many copycats, but it will do well in this area.

While these towers will be impressive, car traffic on the 2-lane Beresford is going to be brutal and constant. If only Burnaby would be as progressive with car infrastructure as it is in tower building.

Beresford is meant to be a local street while Central is a more major street and Kingsway is the main drag. I still think Burnaby should have planned for another parallel street between Beresford and Maywood, travelling between Cassie and either Sussex or Dow (so it would be internal to the neighbourhood) to break up those long blocks.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Beresford is meant to be a local street while Central is a more major street and Kingsway is the main drag. I still think Burnaby should have planned for another parallel street between Beresford and Maywood, travelling between Cassie and either Sussex or Dow (so it would be internal to the neighbourhood) to break up those long blocks.

Those long blocks - a vestige and holdover from Metrotown's past as an industrial park with storage sheds and industrial blocks - are absolutely brutal towards the walkability of the area and the streetscape in many parts of the area.

I don't know why the city isn't more proactive and aggressive really, when it comes to really breaking them up and creating arterial pass-through lanes and infill parks and stuff like that in rezoning for new developments.
Even driving around the long blocks is a pain in the ass sometimes.

Hopefully Brentwood does a better job with their streets and urban planning as they also make that shift from industrial zoning to primarily residential.

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Those long blocks - a vestige and holdover from Metrotown's past as an industrial park with storage sheds and industrial blocks - are absolutely brutal towards the walkability of the area and the streetscape in many parts of the area.

I don't know why the city isn't more proactive and aggressive really, when it comes to really breaking them up and creating arterial pass-through lanes and infill parks and stuff like that in rezoning for new developments.
Even driving around the long blocks is a pain in the ass sometimes.

Hopefully Brentwood does a better job with their streets and urban planning as they also make that shift from industrial zoning to primarily residential.

They are being broken up with walkways.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Beresford is meant to be a local street while Central is a more major street and Kingsway is the main drag. I still think Burnaby should have planned for another parallel street between Beresford and Maywood, travelling between Cassie and either Sussex or Dow (so it would be internal to the neighbourhood) to break up those long blocks.

Agreed, and install a new retail/commercial street in that area too.

[officedweller]

Sussex

Dec 2nd by City of Rain SRC:

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1402395, member: 70034

IMG_3545 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_3549 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_3552 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_3554 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

[skylinegazer]

ah nice to see Sussex under construction

here's a rendering of the 6525 Sussex tower - https://nrgconsultingltd.com/projects/

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by skylinegazer

ah nice to see Sussex under construction

here's a rendering of the 6525 Sussex tower - https://nrgconsultingltd.com/projects/

48 storeys?

Wow, that's pretty impressive.
Looks like Beresford's Tower row might end up having a new tallest tower.

Not sure if this will be taller than the Sun Towers' tower #1, currently under construction on the other side of Metroplace, which I believe is also proposed to be around 48 storeys or so tall. I guess the floor heights will determine which of the two is taller.

(The 'lantern at the tower top' motif has become a little but over-used at this point in time)

Here's a re-post of the render for those that don't want to click on the link:-

[Prometheus]

Just to avoid any ambiguity, the photos of the excavation pit for Sussex above are for a project on the corner of Sussex Avenue and Hazel Street, which is one block north of Kingsway, while the rendering above is for a proposal south of the mall on Beresford Street.

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

48 storeys?

Wow, that's pretty impressive.
Looks like Beresford's Tower row might end up having a new tallest tower.

Not sure if this will be taller than the Sun Towers' tower #1, currently under construction on the other side of Metroplace, which I believe is also proposed to be around 48 storeys or so tall. I guess the floor heights will determine which of the two is taller.

(The 'lantern at the tower top' motif has become a little but over-used at this point in time)

Here's a re-post of the render for those that don't want to click on the link:-

This is one of the few Burnaby towers we actually have an official height for, 158.5 metres.