Landmark on Robson | Completed - Page 29

Changing City · #**561** Posted **Jul 21, 2021, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Social housing in a gentrifying area is seen as a welcome and the 360 public realm improvements are leaps and bounds better.

EDIT: This still has 50 or so social housing units right?! I stopped paying attention to this slow project.

It does - there are 63 social housing units, and retail at grade with office use on the second and third floors.

GenWhy? · #**562** Posted **Jul 21, 2021, 8:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

It does - there are 63 social housing units, and retail at grade with office use on the second and third floors.

Thank you! That's amazing and I hope we get some good office & commercial tenants. Really need more / better office space on Denman, Davie, Robson.

Klazu · #**563** Posted **Jul 22, 2021, 5:24 AM**

I bet most people that bought in these towers don't realize there being a social housing component. They will be pleasantly surprised by the vivid neighbors and which are just the clientele the businesses in the area want.

Changing City · #**564** Posted **Jul 22, 2021, 5:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

I bet most people that bought in these towers don't realize there being a social housing component. They will be pleasantly surprised by the vivid neighbors and which are just the clientele the businesses in the area want.

It's no different to the Jervis, and Mirabel on Davie, or Wall's Strathcona Village, on East Hastings, or 626 Alexander Street, or Bosa's rental tower with the Presbyterian Church on Pendrell, or The Butterfly. They all have social housing and work just fine. You seem to equate the tenants of all non-market housing projects with the most hard-to-house, challenged and drug dependent of society, which is ignorant, and wrong.

Klazu · #**565** Posted **Jul 22, 2021, 6:01 AM**

Not sure why your mind keeps going to such negative places, Andy. I welcome this social mixing just as much as the people that bought in these towers will and places like the quaint Cardore Cafe nearby will benefit from the extra customers. It's a win-win!

Changing City · #**566** Posted **Jul 22, 2021, 6:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Not sure why your mind keeps going to such negative places, Andy. I welcome this social mixing just as much as the people that bought in these towers will and places like the quaint Cardore Cafe nearby will benefit from the extra customers. It's a win-win!

So glad you welcome less wealthy individuals into a neighbourhood. That's not exactly how your comment reads. I assume you're trying to reference the Cardero Cafe. The place that's surrounded by market rentals and condos, and has been broken into, although the one near the new social housing on Davie seems to be OK. I'm not sure that it has any relevance to the social housing at The Landmark, except maybe some of the staff could qualify for affordable housing.

officedweller · #**567** Posted **Aug 12, 2021, 1:58 AM**

Posted August 9th:

https://twitter.com/TrishJewison

mcminsen · #**568** Posted **Sep 1, 2021, 8:05 AM**

Aug.30 '21, my pics

Zepfancouver · #**569** Posted **Sep 16, 2021, 6:02 AM**

Today.

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mcminsen · #**570** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 11:10 AM**

Oct.18 '21, my pics

GenWhy? · #**571** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 4:59 PM**

It's really shaping up the area in a 360 way. Walking See-em-ia Lane lately you really get the sense of laneway improvement the West End is receiving and will be in the future. Hopefully the greenery is more prominent here.

city guy · #**572** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 7:24 PM**

the material palette on the laneway housing portion seems quite nice

Klazu · #**573** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 7:28 PM**

I keep forgetting about this project even as I was Downtown this past week. Moving along nicely, it seems!

officedweller · #**574** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 10:10 PM**

Is that metal panel with a wood finish or is it a composite material that may wear better? (or is it real wood?)

Changing City · #**575** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 10:44 PM**

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Is that metal panel with a wood finish or is it a composite material that may wear better? (or is it real wood?)

The DP drawings refer to 'timber effect panel'. So not real wood. You'll be pleased to hear the 'KP' logo isn't the same as the 'KP brand vinyl siding' available on the market.

officedweller · #**576** Posted **Oct 20, 2021, 12:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

The DP drawings refer to 'timber effect panel'. So not real wood.

Sounds like the finish on my IKEA bookshelves.

Changing City · #**577** Posted **Oct 20, 2021, 1:37 AM**

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Sounds like the finish on my IKEA bookshelves.

There was a guy in an orange vest with a huge allen key...

hollywoodnorth · #**578** Posted **Oct 20, 2021, 4:22 AM**

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There was a guy in an orange vest with a huge allen key...

orange vest you say? did he announce any height increases on the towers?

jollyburger · #**579** Posted **Dec 9, 2021, 3:38 AM**

The east tower was somewhere around level 18-20

rofina · #**580** Posted **Dec 9, 2021, 6:09 PM**

The timing for this developer could not work out better.

Launched and self financed during a down market, in luxury in particular.

Completing into what appears to be the hottest RE market in history.

Hopefully the markets hold up for them over the next couple of years.