Burnaby Updates

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by YukioTanaka

I used to live right on Edmonds street, on the block between 16th and 18th. What a nightmare! It's a designated truck route, tons of noise and traffic. The pedestrian environment is poor and intimidating (try crossing Edmonds at 16th. I hope the city has a better plan for traffic management around there, especially with King's Crossing on the horizon.

I nixed living on Edmonds due to the traffic - that's where the buses travel to get to Kingsway. Anyone living there should know that before moving in. I haven't found crossing it to be too bad, even at 16th.

Kings Crossing won't be fronting a major-ish street and will have internal streets so it shouldn't be too bad. We'll have to wait and see. I'm sure the streets they're showing aren't crossing the whole site in a straight line on purpose to discourage people racing through it as a shortcut.

[Tetsuo]

Truck traffic in the Edmonds area has died down considerably in the past few years ever since Safeway moved out and light industrial disappears

Once a while at night you still get the occasional maniac truck driver on speed blasting thru the streets. (anyone remember that huge accident near Safeway in the 90's?)


On Southgate: The site closest to Ernie Winch is going to be built first (prepping underway, they are aiming for first building going up 2016/17

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Sheba

.Kings Crossing won't be fronting a major-ish street and will have internal streets so it shouldn't be too bad.

That should have read Southgate...

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Tetsuo

Truck traffic in the Edmonds area has died down considerably in the past few years ever since Safeway moved out and light industrial disappears

Once a while at night you still get the occasional maniac truck driver on speed blasting thru the streets. (anyone remember that huge accident near Safeway in the 90's?)


On Southgate: The site closest to Ernie Winch is going to be built first (prepping underway, they are aiming for first building going up 2016/17

Plus they changed the roads so trucks take Byrne Rd to Southridge Dr and then either straight across 10th Ave, turn up Griffiths Dr or down 20th St - so a lot of traffic bypasses Edmonds.

The first towers listed for Southgate are 28 and 32 floors.

[Tetsuo]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Plus they changed the roads so trucks take Byrne Rd to Southridge Dr and then either straight across 10th Ave, turn up Griffiths Dr or down 20th St - so a lot of traffic bypasses Edmonds.

The first towers listed for Southgate are 28 and 32 floors.

I thought trucks are now banned from 20th, and 10th is only during daylight hours (save for those accessing the milk plant and the company leasing the former safeway site.

There's also a few low rises set to be built in the first phase (3/4 story I think(

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Sheba

It's kind of funny that the other Burnaby town centers get 'oh it's just a big mall at the Skytrain' and then people complain that Edmonds doesn't have a big mall.

Kings Crossing

Pic by Cressey

The sales center is taking shape (I only saw it from the back). Talking to one of the Value Village workers, it sounds like they expect to be there for another year and then that's it.

[urbancanadian]

Just realized I should have posted these here...

Originally Posted by urbancanadian

Intergulf is proposing a 17-storey tower and a 6-storey mid-rise at 8850 University Crescent in Burnaby. Here's the info: https://burnaby.civicweb.net/Documen....aspx?ID=15792

This is two lots west of Altitude, on Burnaby Mountain. So there will eventually be another tower in between this development and the Altitude development, which has completed its first tower and is building the second.

I think that will make it at least a dozen high-rises so far atop Burnaby Mountain.

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Originally Posted by urbancanadian

For anyone interested, there is more info available regarding Concord's Brentwood area development. Here's the link: https://burnaby.civicweb.net/Documen....aspx?ID=15813 (3 MB)

The Dawson Street connection will be completed within Phase 2. The first phase of development (Phase 1A) includes two towers at the northwest corner of the site. They are planned to be 42 and 47 storeys tall.

[WugOverlord]

Does anybody have any links or info regarding the southwest corner of Dawson and Willingdon? There was an old locksmith shop there that was cleared out maybe a month or two ago now.

[VarBreStr18]

Originally Posted by WugOverlord

Does anybody have any links or info regarding the southwest corner of Dawson and Willingdon? There was an old locksmith shop there that was cleared out maybe a month or two ago now.

It is going to be low rise complex by Amacon, with street level restaurant. Dont know what kind of restaurant yet. Was mentioned in the June 1 post in Brentwood station blog.

[Tetsuo]

Southgate's building their presentation centre on 18th street across from the school.

Red Brick seems complete, they are just doing finishing touches, they have also made 14th ave half as wide as it used to be, and now 14th ave & griffiths traffic signal runs on timer, instead of purely a sensor.

Intercity Motel city + the retail corner is now prepping for demolition

[TourOdeon]

Burnaby projects get $1.2M in federal funding

With a federal election less than three months away, Ottawa is contributing a total of $1.2 million to three City of Burnaby infrastructure projects.

On Friday, North Vancouver Conservative MP Andrew Saxton announced the funding under the federal government’s Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program. The $150-million program is to provide support for community and cultural infrastructure as part of celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Burnaby is receiving $500,000 for upgrades to the multi-use trail in Central Park, $500,000 for the planned urban trail on Willingdon Avenue between Brentwood mall and the Heights, and $200,000 for renovations to the second floor of the Bob Prittie Metrotown branch library, where the funding announcement was made by Western Economic Diversification Canada.

"With our federal support, towns and cities from coast to coast will be able to preserve valuable public spaces, such as parks, trails, and community centres,” said Saxton in a press release. “These are the types of projects that unite and connect us all, and I'm pleased to see funding beginning to flow here in B.C.”

Acting mayor Pietro Calendino called the funding “most welcome as we rarely see this kind of money from Ottawa.”

The money for Central Park will go towards Phase 1 of the trail, on the west side of the park along Boundary Road. The trails and sidewalks will become a wide, tree-lined continuous multi-use trail that will, when all phases are completed, eventually comprise a four-kilometre loop that is both “porous and resilient” around the park.

The Willingdon Greenway, or urban trail, will give pedestrians and cyclists a four-metre-wide landscaped link between Brentwood Town Centre and Burnaby Heights complete with public art.

At the Metrotown library, the upgrades to the second floor will “be of long-term benefit to our growing community and to those patrons who look to the library to guide them through digital and information challenges,” Calendino said.

- See more at: http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/new....Yok9Dksx.dpuf

SOURCE: http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/new...ding-1.2015742

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by TourOdeon

Burnaby projects get $1.2M in federal funding

With a federal election less than three months away, Ottawa is contributing a total of $1.2 million to three City of Burnaby infrastructure projects.

On Friday, North Vancouver Conservative MP Andrew Saxton announced the funding under the federal government’s Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program. The $150-million program is to provide support for community and cultural infrastructure as part of celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Burnaby is receiving $500,000 for upgrades to the multi-use trail in Central Park, $500,000 for the planned urban trail on Willingdon Avenue between Brentwood mall and the Heights, and $200,000 for renovations to the second floor of the Bob Prittie Metrotown branch library, where the funding announcement was made by Western Economic Diversification Canada.

"With our federal support, towns and cities from coast to coast will be able to preserve valuable public spaces, such as parks, trails, and community centres,” said Saxton in a press release. “These are the types of projects that unite and connect us all, and I'm pleased to see funding beginning to flow here in B.C.”

Acting mayor Pietro Calendino called the funding “most welcome as we rarely see this kind of money from Ottawa.”

The money for Central Park will go towards Phase 1 of the trail, on the west side of the park along Boundary Road. The trails and sidewalks will become a wide, tree-lined continuous multi-use trail that will, when all phases are completed, eventually comprise a four-kilometre loop that is both “porous and resilient” around the park.

The Willingdon Greenway, or urban trail, will give pedestrians and cyclists a four-metre-wide landscaped link between Brentwood Town Centre and Burnaby Heights complete with public art.

At the Metrotown library, the upgrades to the second floor will “be of long-term benefit to our growing community and to those patrons who look to the library to guide them through digital and information challenges,” Calendino said.

YES!!!!!!!! Finally one connection to Burnaby Heights. With the Gilmore Urban Trail completion cycling in Burnaby is finally improving a little bit.

I must say, I'm not sure who will benefit from the Central Park loop except recreational users. There are no cycling connections anywhere on the southern half of the park (south of Maywood/45th), except maybe the pedestrian signal at Mandy Rd. Maybe this will bring some kind of incentive to add cycling infrastructure to Imperial! (yeah, right )

[Tetsuo]

^^^ I think Rumble would make for a good street in the future for cycling infrastructure

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Tetsuo

^^^ I think Rumble would make for a good street in the future for cycling infrastructure

I suspect they'd more likely put it on north of Rumble on Victory St - it's already got the on-street bike markings between Royal Oak and Patterson.

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by Tetsuo

^^^ I think Rumble would make for a good street in the future for cycling infrastructure

Originally Posted by Sheba

I suspect they'd more likely put it on north of Rumble on Victory St - it's already got the on-street bike markings between Royal Oak and Patterson.

No, I agree with Tetsuo that Rumble would be a fantastic street for cycling infrastructure, ideally a 2-way protected cycle lane on one side. This would connect at the same level with the North Arm Trail in Vancouver, provided that route is extended along Rosemont-Butler-Maquinna and through the forest trails to the Rumble crossing of Boundary. It would also link up with the BC Parkway at Gilley, and most importantly, it would give South Slope residents south of Rumble an east-west route closer to their elevation (unfortunately the ravines prevent doing this any further south). It's also worth noting that Victory is cut off at Patterson by the giant Ocean View Burial Park, whereas Rumble is not. Finally, Rumble has a great deal of extra space used as surface parking, and the space is excessive even for the cars. Putting in a cycle track would provide a great incentive to put in sidewalks as well, or at least upgrade them if done on the north side. There is far too much space given over to useless gravel. Another advantage is the possibility of calming car traffic on Rumble at the same time by reducing lane width, as it sits adjacent to at least four schools that I can think of, and there is little structural incentive for drivers to follow the 30km school zone speed limit.

The Victory bikeway is already pretty complete, the only thing it still needs are pedestrian controlled signals at Royal Oak and Nelson (and possibly Sussex), which will probably never happen given the cost of installing traffic lights.

I should mention that a 2-way cycle track or even urban trail down the west side of Patterson (south of Imperial) would also be very possible, and more useful now that the southeast corner of Central Park will be connected to the urban trail. Down at Marine and Patterson, there is a new urban trail being constructed through the "New Haven" development, which already connects all the way to the Glenlyon Parkway urban trail (the one absolutely wrecked by tree roots at present). This could also be a good place to try out one of those cyclocables Jonathan Cote was talking about for New West, lol.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Large Cat

No, I agree with Tetsuo that Rumble would be a fantastic street for cycling infrastructure, ideally a 2-way protected cycle lane on one side.

I didn't say it would be better, just more likely that they'd upgrade what's already there before adding a new route.

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by Sheba

I didn't say it would be better, just more likely that they'd upgrade what's already there before adding a new route.

Indeed

[HomeBoy]

I saw an ad for this development in the local newspaper:

http://www.milanoliving.ca/home

Anyone have any ideas of where this tower is going to be located?

[ender183]

Originally Posted by HomeBoy

I saw an ad for this development in the local newspaper:

http://www.milanoliving.ca/home

Anyone have any ideas of where this tower is going to be located?

This is likely Solterra's project at 2450 Alpha Ave, Burnaby. The ownership for that property is SOLTERRA DEVELOPMENT (MILANO) CORP.

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2014/0...rentwood-area/

[phesto]

Some renderings of Gold House that I hadn't seen before:

http://www.wallpaper.com/architectur...wn/9476#126172

Not sure what to make of this one!