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[SpongeG]

yay a starbucks

[officedweller]

Elle Richmond

By City of Rain @ SkyRise Cities Taken Oct 29:

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1270201, member: 70034

IMG_7172 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7174 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7176 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7178 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1270202, member: 70034

^^^^

IMG_7181 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7183 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7187 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7189 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

[officedweller]

Orchid Richmond

By City of Rain taken Oct 29th:

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1270779, member: 70034

IMG_7204 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7206 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7301 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7305 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1270780, member: 70034

^^^^

IMG_7307 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7310 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_7314 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

[osirisboy]

Orchid is one of the ugliest things going up! Hopefully it will look better when it's finished, though doubtful

[officedweller]

The rendering isn't that bad:

Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1258509, member: 70034

https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/ca/orchid-by-beedie

[osirisboy]

Yeah that looks fine but looks nothing like what's getting built as far as window/spandrel and I'm guessing the top two floors will be all spandrel.

[urbancanadian]

There are several upcoming large developments going through the pre-application phase in Coquitlam that I meant to post a couple weeks back. I've been busy so I haven't had a chance to do it until now so I apologize.

Polygon is proposing three towers and a lowrise at 135 Balmoral Drive. Heights are 35-, 31-, 31-, and 6-storeys. This is the site of a former elementary school on the border with Port Moody. Remember that Port Moody is planning TOD from their border up to Inlet Centre Station. The site is outlined in red below:


Polygon is planning three more towers at 2800 Barnet Highway, sandwiched between Translink's two Park & Ride locations at Coquitlam Central Station. No building heights yet.

Marcon is proposing four towers in the first development planned across Lougheed from Coquitlam Central Station. The address is 2968 Christmas Way and one of the towers will be rentals. Again, no building heights yet.

The two sites are outlined in red below:


Onni and Polygon are apparently teaming up for four towers at 1175 Pinetree Way. Building heights are 46-, 40-, 36-, and 20-storeys. The shortest tower would be rentals. I'm not sure which site is theirs, but it should be one of the two below:


Finally, there are four towers of 46-storeys to 47-storeys proposed at 439 North Road. The architect is Chris Dikeakos, but no developer is listed. The last time this happened was for the site directly to the east, which ended up being Cressey's Hensley project. So it's possible that this will be another Cressey development. The site is outlined in red below:

[Aroundtheworld]

^^^Thanks for the great breakdown urbancanadian!

[officedweller]

Thanks for the update!

[SpongeG]

wow thats a lot, i live near the caribou centre, been wondering when it would get redeveloped.

[VarBreStr18]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

wow thats a lot, i live near the caribou centre, been wondering when it would get redeveloped.

Since you are closer to COL, have you notice any activity in their
Presentation center? Any sign they preparing for sale of Tower 2 ...I wonder.

[SpongeG]

yeah they have a big red ribbon banner that runs across it saying coming fall 2017

[GilmoreStation]

Well its already Fall 2017

[officedweller]

Posts from Dec 2016:

Originally Posted by VanK

Except the word on the street is that UEM Sunrise has either sold or is currently under contract with a developer to sell the site.

Originally Posted by phesto

Correct. Site has been sold by UEM.

and April 2017:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Thanks!

For future reference:


http://x.lnimg.com/attachments/E3638...86BAF2F5B2.pdf

From Peter Mitham at BIV Nov 7, 2017:

Note that South Street Development Group built the highly spandrel-clad 527 Carnarvon project in New West.

Yet transit lines are attractive to both commercial and residential developers, as the recent sale of the 4.9-acre Alderbridge lands along the Canada rapid transit line opposite Lansdowne Centre in Richmond shows.

Vancouver-based South Street Development Group acquired the property for $113 million from UEM Sunrise Berhad. Sunrise acquired it in April 2014 for $69 million. The on-transit investment was on the money, and South Street – no stranger to Richmond housing – will undertake development while UEM refocuses on its Asia holdings.

Avison Young principal Bal Atwal, who represented UEM Sunrise, said the site is particularly notable because of its frontage. While UEM previously developed Quintet, a 615-unit development two blocks south on Minoru Boulevard, the Alderbridge site features three times the frontage on No. 3 Road of any other site in the corridor (aside from the massive Richmond Centre and Lansdowne Centre sites).

“This would be the most significant,” he said.

https://www.biv.com/article/2017/11/...-housing-star/

[officedweller]

Immediately south of the project above.....

No. 3 Rd & Lansdowne
by Townline Homes

Retail info and render of project - includes an office tower!!!
The retail floorplan shown seems to omit the grocery store at the north end of the site.
The plan shown doesn't properly interface with the new east-west road to the north
and the retail areas shown are missing 15,526 sq ft (from the 44,000 sq ft total)


http://form.ca/campaigns/2017/monthl...er_Mailer.html


http://form.ca/campaigns/2017/monthl...er_Mailer.html


http://form.ca/campaigns/2017/monthl...er_Mailer.html


http://form.ca/campaigns/2017/monthl...er_Mailer.html

[SpongeG]

the Safeway on Austin in Coquitlam is now closed and fenced off. The pharmacy has moved into a temporary location across the street, it will presumably move back in when the new safeway is built. I have not heard of anything or seen any renderings, but there was something years ago and they want to add density to the area to revitalize "austin heights" with a mulitlevel space, i imagine a tower will be involved now.

[miamimarc]

Always impressed with Pixeoseo brochures. Appreciate the effort.

[BodomReaper]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

the Safeway on Austin in Coquitlam is now closed and fenced off. The pharmacy has moved into a temporary location across the street, it will presumably move back in when the new safeway is built. I have not heard of anything or seen any renderings, but there was something years ago and they want to add density to the area to revitalize "austin heights" with a mulitlevel space, i imagine a tower will be involved now.

5 or 6 years years ago, they got a new store approved which was still single-level, but with underground parking and some CRUs. No residential involved. Not sure if they've applied for anything more recently.

[SpongeG]

fremont village in poco is getting some residential getting built now. I can\t imagine wanting to live in the middle of an ugly shopping centre.

2017-11-14_06-46-23 by snub_you, on Flickr

Coquitlam has put in some new signs, there are a couple along north road...
2017-11-14_06-45-30 by snub_you, on Flickr

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

5 or 6 years years ago, they got a new store approved which was still single-level, but with underground parking and some CRUs. No residential involved. Not sure if they've applied for anything more recently.

yea i remember that plan, it would add some retail space along the back street.

There is this image that shows what Coquitlam envisions Austin Heights to become.



I found this from August 2017.

Highrise limits lifted by Coquitlam council
A 25-storey max. is set for Austin Heights towers

Highrises will only be permitted in the neighbourhood centre, which is the commercial area along Austin Avenue and a section of Ridgeway Avenue between Blue Mountain and Gatensbury streets. Development will be limited to a 25-storey maximum, with the spaces between buildings increased to 35 m from the 25 m minimums seen in other parts of the city.
Staff said the plan will also maintain the four-storey limit on the Rona property on Austin and states: “The revitalization is not anticipated to supplant the lower-cost rental housing nearby,” according to a press release.

http://www.tricitynews.com/news/high...cil-1.21631216