I guess since the other City of Lougheed thread is titled Phase 1 and thus dedicated to the towers in that phase, I thought I'd post these here in the general thread and when the project matures enough to deserve its own thread they can be moved there.
Shape Properties just released images and information regarding the phase 2 towers for their project at Lougheed for the parcel located southern-most and next to the Skytrain station and will occupy both the surface parking lot and the lot with the existing Hudson's Bay store that will be torn down.
It's three towers - 43 and 46 storeys with a shorter 12 storey tower - with the first tower as mixed use rental (both market and below market), and the latter two as market condo towers, with all three buildings having retail/commercial at grade and an outdoor covered shoping space connecting the indoor shopping areas (more on that below).
Its not clear how much of that programmed 'Commercial' space will be office (versus retail), but given it's only one or two storeys of commercial throughout the project it wouldn't surprise me if its all entirely Retail.
It's the two towers to the left-most side of the image below closest to the skytrain station in the earlier released context image for phase 1.
The images released also highlight how they plan to approach and execute their covered outdoor mall concept to creat and outdoor shopping experience but still under some weather protection.
I imagine Ivanhoe Cambridge will be keen to see how that works out in light of their own plans to break up the mall at Metrotown and follow a similar outdoor shopping experience concept versus the current indoor mall plan.
It should be a test case for how successful this kind of shopping model is for a place with our kind of climate despite its success in other parts of the world where they have many more months in the year with fair weather.
I'm still not convinced that this kind of model will have that same level of success here, but it's worth noting that Shape's other megaproject at Amazing Brentwood similarly tried dipping the toe into the whole outdoor shopping spaces and areas, concept with the plaza at that project and I'm unaware of how successful that has turned out - especially in the non-spring and non-summer months.
At least here they're kind of hedging their bets as the existing mall continues to operate as a traditional covered mall but later phases are supposed to see it too demolished to accomodate more towers. But those plans could change.
The earliest relased overall concept masterplan for the entire City of Lougheed proposal. (below)
It's worth noting that the southern-most parcel in this image though included in the master plan because it originally did belong to Shape was sold to Pinnacle who have proposed a 3 tower project including what will be the two tallest towers west of Ontario.
So the parcel for this current phase is the one closest to the skytrain station between the "21" and "27" keymarks.
So I guess the idea here is that the portion shaded in blue will be exterior space but covered as illustrated in the renders above.
Source :
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city...mall-phase-two
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