980 Howe | 61M | 16 Flr | Completed - Page 3

trofirhen · #41 Posted **Aug 16, 2012, 12:23 AM**

This building will add to the linear continuity of Howe Street, which is rather elegant, and makes a good counterpoint to high-rises to be built nearby in the CBD.

Jimbo604 · #42 Posted **Sep 15, 2012, 8:45 PM**

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A sign, literally, that this project is moving ahead. Royal Bank branch onsite is packing up and moving in two months time.

officedweller · #43 Posted **Sep 19, 2012, 12:05 AM**

Hopefully the two tone glass on this tower will be different enough in their reflective qualities to distinguish between the two - a good example is the new MaRS tower in TO:

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Originally Posted by urbandreamer

16 September 2012: Happy New Year edition:

Jimbo604 · #44 Posted **Oct 24, 2012, 2:52 AM**

Going to UDP for a second review tomorrow...

UDP Agenda Oct 24, 2012

Address: 980 Howe Street
DA: DE416146
Description: To construct a new 14-storey office building with commercial uses on the ground
floor and parking for 217 vehicles accessed from the lane.
Zoning: DD
Application Status: C
Review: Second
Architect: CEI Architecture and Endall Elliot Architects (John Scott and Alan Endall)
Staff: Sailen Black

Klazu · #45 Posted **Nov 16, 2012, 4:38 PM**

The RBC branch is now closed. I was among the last few customers visiting the branch just 5 minutes before noon.

They commenced the move out immediately and the new branch on Hornby Street will open already on Monday morning. I would think also the demolition of the old building will begin pretty soon.

Jimbo604 · #46 Posted **Nov 28, 2012, 5:29 AM**

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Signs removed but surface parking lot behind is still open.

LeftCoaster · #47 Posted **Nov 28, 2012, 2:53 PM**

I doubt they are building this one on spec, so we will hear news long before the parking lot shuts down.

Jimbo604 · #48 Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

I doubt they are building this one on spec, so we will hear news long before the parking lot shuts down.

Jan 3rd: status as of today - nothing happening. Parking lot still open for business.

Jimbo604 · #49 Posted **Feb 13, 2013, 5:06 PM**

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Fencing up, crews removing asbestos, bins in parking lot.

Demolition of the bank building may lead to immediate start of construction or it may lead to an expansion of the parking lot before construction begins.

jlousa · #50 Posted **Feb 13, 2013, 6:01 PM**

Looks like Asbestos removal.

Klazu · #51 Posted **Mar 12, 2013, 1:14 AM**

Demolition began on Sunday. Half of the building is now knocked down.

queetz@home · #52 Posted **Mar 12, 2013, 1:38 AM**

Is this project actually still happening, or is it really dead as per the Globe and Mail article...

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Developers hit brakes on office-tower construction

The Vancouver office-tower boom is gearing down.

After a couple years of heady development in which almost a dozen new towers were proposed, construction on half of them is likely to be put off for the immediate future, the city’s commercial brokers say.

“With the five that are already in the mix, I’d say there will be a pause,” said Bart Corbett, the senior vice-president for office leasing at Cushman Wakefield. “Those four to five buildings have more or less tapped the tangible leases in our market.”...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle8957041/

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Proposed developments that are likely to be delayed include the Stock Exchange tower by Credit Suisse, a site at Howe and Nelson streets owned by Manulife, the Pattison development on Burrard Street, and a site opposite the former train station on Cordova Street, the property of Whitecaps owner Greg Kerfoot.

I know demolition is ongoing but won't this end up just being yet another parking lot?

Klazu · #53 Posted **Mar 12, 2013, 1:44 AM**

Uh oh, I am not thrilled by the looks of this tower, but seeing the site transforming into a parking lot for the undefined period of time doesn't sound great either!

officedweller · #54 Posted **Mar 12, 2013, 3:53 AM**

We'll know in time....

Also, "Proposed developments that are likely to be delayed" does not equal "dead".

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Is this project actually still happening, or is it really dead as per the Globe and Mail article...

Jimbo604 · #55 Posted **Mar 12, 2013, 4:32 PM**

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Looks like the demo has started. Excavator parked outside, inside is cleared out.

queetz@home · #56 Posted **Mar 12, 2013, 11:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

We'll know in time....

Also, "Proposed developments that are likely to be delayed" does not equal "dead".

With the BC NDP coming in May, sure it does! If Manulife doesn't build this building now, it will never be built!

If they *delay* it, it will forever be delayed! Or worse, end up being yet another residential building like....the site of what is now known as the Hudson! That was a proposed office building too, remember?

Jimbo604 · #57 Posted **Mar 15, 2013, 5:48 AM**

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el demolisho

officedweller · #58 Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 7:59 PM**

Pic by a friend of mine whose office is across the street:

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Jimbo604 · #59 Posted **Mar 23, 2013, 7:05 AM**

The vault is all that's left. Looks pretty solid. Two storey perhaps.

And the building did have a basement.

Two likely scenarios going forward:
a. They fill in the basement meaning the office construction is delayed and this will be an expansion of the existing parking lot
b. They won't fill in the basement and move on with the office construction.

We shall see...

Jimbo604 · #60 Posted **Mar 26, 2013, 6:11 AM**

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Bank vault is gone, site should be cleared this week.