Burnaby Updates

[officedweller]

Thanks for the update!

[domusile]

Originally Posted by owenhujb

Would just like to say that the following buildings:

6444 Willingdon Avenue and 4241 Maywood Street, 6525 Telford Avenue, and 4960 Bennett Street have all moved forward and reached second reading as of April 20, 2020.

Isn't this the project on Marlborough?

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by domusile

Isn't this the project on Marlborough?

Yes, this is the Accorde Properties residential project across the street (Marlborough) from Vittorio and Midori and from the Fire Station and the park south of Bennett.
(this render view in fact, would be the view from the park facing Eastwards.....and conveniently ignores the fact that you'll be looking at some 7 towers right behind the camera towards west and south of it)

There's two tower proposals for that area currently applying for rezoning with the city.
This one and another one at the corner of Bennett and Nelson (but not on the lot with the red lowrise building at the corner exactly but just adjacent to it. The third render in the original post at 4960 Benett)

[officedweller]

Found a map with the site.
So it looks like taller buildings will be allowed moving east to Royal Oak?
Though I thought Burnaby wanted to step down to the east.

Originally Posted by BobLoblawsLawBlog

6556-6596 Marlborough Avenue - Accorde

[officedweller]

and that 3rd one is The Bennett in orange here:

Originally Posted by officedweller

And here's the updated map of those blocks:

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by officedweller

and that 3rd one is The Bennett in orange here:

That's a nice map to have.

It really gives a great idea of all the development that's happened in that area (and that is still happening).

You might wanna update it, though.

In addition to the two (the Bennett project and the Marlborough/Grimmer one), there should also be a couple of tower project proposals for a couple of lots just west of Royal Oak on either side of Grimmer, as well as a midrise for a bit farther down south closer to the skytrain station.



Here's an early concept render of the one at Royal Oak and Grimmer, SW corner....





And it's located here....






I can't remember the name of the developer behind it.
("IFortune" or something like that....)


EDIT : Yep,...iFortune Homes is their name...

http://www.ifortunehomes.com/portfolio/

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Found a map with the site.
So it looks like taller buildings will be allowed moving east to Royal Oak?
Though I thought Burnaby wanted to step down to the east.

Here's an image from Burnaby's plan (2017 - the latest available) that shows the east side of Royal Oak (the edge of Metrotown Centre) as High Density Mixed Use from Imperial to just north of Kingsway.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Here's an image from Burnaby's plan (2017 - the latest available) that shows the east side of Royal Oak (the edge of Metrotown Centre) as High Density Mixed Use from Imperial to just north of Kingsway.

You mean the WEST side of Royal Oak, right?

East of Royal Oak is supposed to be medium to low density as that's the side it tapers down from.

What they currently have now on that side of the street are 4-6 storey residential buildings with some retail on the ground level and I imagine that's the template they would follow for any developments going eastwards.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

You mean the WEST side of Royal Oak, right?

East of Royal Oak is supposed to be medium to low density as that's the side it tapers down from.

What they currently have now on that side of the street are 4-6 storey residential buildings with some retail on the ground level and I imagine that's the template they would follow for any developments going eastwards.

*tsk* I don't know my easts from my wests...

Yes the other side of the street (actual east this time) is part of the Royal Oak area and much lower heights / density than the Metrotown Centre area.

[officedweller]

Thanks.
So it does look like it steps down from the 40s, but still in the high teens or 20s.

Will update in future.
The new Googlemap shot hopefully has the built towers on it.

[officedweller]

From the Akimbo thread - new tower on Telford in Metrotown:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Looking back in the Burnaby updates thread, that one is called "Telford" by Westland Homes, noted as 'coming soon' and 53 storeys, here:
https://westlandliving.ca/homes
But no pics and a private link to the Dikeakos website.
If you remember it as mid-40s, maybe the height has been increased and that has caused a redesign.

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Yep!
That seems like it's the one.

And I definitely don't remember it as 53 storeys, so you might have a point and it underwent a major re-design to get more FSR and height (probably in exchange for building more non-market rentals in a second tower to replace the walk-ups).
Which also indicates or hints that it will almost likely not look like the images we saw when it was posted here.

On the Westland site it says 'Coming in 2021'......which I have to assume means pre-sales and/or construction start date.
hhmm...
Seems a bit optimistic to me.

I also doubt it will be called 'The Telford' or 'Telford'-anything,....since Intracorp already have a project in presales just south of their Metroplace tower called 'Telford on the Walk'.

https://intracorphomes.com/communities/telford/


....that one has an estimated 2024 completion date.

EDIT : It doesn't say "presales" but rather "coming soon"

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

EDIT #2

Boom-Shaka-Laka!!!!

Internet sleuthing for the win again....
I got it!....

(....from here, specifically,....http://www.thegreyliving.com/team/
Sounds like the marketing or sales wing of their Westland team that didn't update their site or remove the image. But this was definitely the one)




I'll be genuinely surprised if the final design proposal ends up looking anything near like that.

Originally Posted by SonyPS5

That is a unique balcony design lol. Looks like the right side has something doing on too.

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

I would guess that they have that pattern running up all 4 sides of the tower and not just the 2 as I recalled before.

And yes, it is bizarre, if not,......busy......and "eye-catching" (I guess that's what it's supposed to be). Get rid of it and you just have another cookie-cutter highrise residential tower with balconies.

But like I said, I highly doubt that the final design looks anything like that much less has any feature like that. I'm mean, I'd be really really surprised.

I've been wrong before.
I previously thought the GoldHouse screen feature on Central Boulevard would end up looking tacky and gawdy, but it seems like they pulled it off, or they will.

Originally Posted by officedweller

Sweet!
I've never seen that one before.
A floor count of the rendering looks like 53 storeys.
I've copied to the Burnaby Updates thread to move it out of Akimbo's thread.

[Klazu]

Now that Highline is going to be only 48 floors I really hope this becomes the 53 floors that are visible. That would make this a nice highlight of the Beresford row.

[Vin]

Good thing the City of Burnaby does not have a habit of asking developers to break up their buildings into "human scale" sections. This criss-cross tower would've been chopped up to become a Franskenstein as per 8X in Vancouver. Hope what's depicted is the final version here.

[SpongeG]

444 homes in a 44-storey tower coming next to SkyTrain's Patterson Station


Kenneth Chan | Jun 25 2020, 12:46 pm



https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/6075-wilson-avenue-burnaby

Bold condo tower by Gensler coming to Burnaby's Metrotown area (RENDERINGS)

Kenneth Chan | Jun 25 2020, 6:29 pm


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/5977-wilson-avenue-burnaby

[Metro-One]

Both look great.

The last one actually comes with an official height! Rare for Burnaby.

141 metres

[officedweller]

Those waves are a very simple way of adding interest.

[owenhujb]

The waves look very slightly like Vista in Chicago.

Isn't the second building the same height as Metroplace at 141m? That's pretty tall for the area...

[logan5]

That black tower will stand out in Metrotown's sea of generic condo towers. Even if 1 in 10 towers were a different colour than the usual, it would make a huge difference in how the skyline looks. That's why I was kinda looking forward to Goldhouse, but it seems to have gotten watered down.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

444 homes in a 44-storey tower coming next to SkyTrain's Patterson Station


Bold condo tower by Gensler coming to Burnaby's Metrotown area (RENDERINGS)

Interesting that they're putting basically a black tower and a white tower next door to each other. I'm kind of surprised that they're not lowing the height, what with it being near the edge of the Metrotown town centre.

[GeeCee]

I like the look of both, but the black tower looks a little like a cheap ripoff of Telus Tower.