Downtown Vancouver Updates II - Page 45

jollyburger · #**881** Posted **Dec 21, 2024, 6:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by gaviscon

Are we expecting these 2 hotels to start construction next year?

- 1300 Robson (Listel Hotel Redev)

- 848 Seymour

1300 Robson probably they were doing the permits for demo work around October.

848 Seymour got approved in April but zero work to advance it. Just noticed Perkins Will asked for building grades for their other parking lot along Richards back in 2019.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=109802832

vehementi · #**882** Posted **Dec 22, 2024, 8:23 AM**

Anyone been following the Cohen block development?

https://storeys.com/bosa-properties-...ock-vancouver/

I haven't heard much concrete in a while...

jollyburger · #**883** Posted **Dec 22, 2024, 6:28 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vehementi

Anyone been following the Cohen block development?

https://storeys.com/bosa-properties-...ock-vancouver/

I haven't heard much concrete in a while...

I was looking at their building on Google Maps to see if it was at risk of imminent collapse

There's zero chance the office component makes any sense and it's not compliant with the area plan so I would wait for a new proposal with all rental.

jollyburger · #**884** Posted **Dec 22, 2024, 6:29 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vehementi

Anyone been following the Cohen block development?

https://storeys.com/bosa-properties-...ock-vancouver/

I haven't heard much concrete in a while...

I was looking at their building on Google Maps to see if it was at risk of imminent collapse

There's zero chance the office component makes any sense and it's not compliant with the area plan so I would wait for a new proposal with all rental housing. And pray the new planning department staff will help push it through.

Vancouver Magazine just had a story by Kerry Gold on why housing development is so slow.

Quote:

The view protections are just one reason why the Cohen Block in the Downtown Eastside has taken so long to get approved. The former Army and Navy store site is in desperate need of revitalization, and owner Jacqui Cohen, who partnered with Bosa Properties, says it’s a legacy project—a mix of housing, retail and office in a beleaguered area that would benefit from new development.

The original concept was 32 storeys because of the Creekside Park viewcone. I think the revised viewcone gave most of the site +26-41 storeys to fit under the view cone.

https://www.vanmag.com/city/real-est...just-build-it/

jollyburger · #**885** Posted **Dec 23, 2024, 3:34 AM**

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414-420 W Pender St rezoning

The City of Vancouver has received an application to rezone the subject site from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The proposal is to allow for the development of a 12-storey residential rental building and includes:

88 units;
A floor space ratio (FSR) of 9.3;
A building height of 35.8 m (117 ft.) with additional height for rooftop amenity space; and
Heritage façade retention of the 1914 Western Canada Building.

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/414-420-w-pender-st

jollyburger · #**886** Posted **Dec 23, 2024, 3:36 AM**

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1068-1090 Burnaby St and 1318 Thurlow St

Anthem Properties has applied to the City of Vancouver for permission to develop a 32-storey rental residential building, consisting of:

300 rental units
20% of the floor area for below market rental
A roof-top amenity
Three levels of underground parking with vehicular access from the rear lane

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/1068-10...8-thurlow-st-2

jollyburger · #**887** Posted **Dec 29, 2024, 12:16 AM**

They have some video of a concrete pour of the new restaurant space at Royal Centre

https://www.royalcentre.com/royal-centre-re-envisioned

NewfBC · #**888** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 1:58 AM**

Nordstrom building in downtown Vancouver to be fully demolished for redevelopment

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/nord...-redevelopment

Wow!

Ron.

giallo · #**889** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 2:24 AM**

^ Link is down.

NewfBC · #**890** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 2:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by NewfBC

Nordstrom building in downtown Vancouver to be fully demolished for redevelopment

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/nord...-redevelopment

Wow!

Ron.

Quote:

Originally Posted by giallo

^ Link is down.

Seems they changed it to include just the hotel... interesting!

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/four...-redevelopment

Ron.

madog222 · #**891** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 2:36 AM**

^ In that article currently, linking to the same dead link.

Quote:

Similarly, CF Pacific Centre’s former Nordstrom building will also be demolished for redevelopment. This building also houses major corporate offices for Microsoft and Sony Pictures Imageworks above the former department store space.
...

A spokesperson for Cadillac Fairview confirmed to Daily Hive Urbanized that both buildings at the property will be demolished for new-build redevelopment.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/four...-redevelopment

bb1510 · #**892** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 2:36 AM**

Archived link:

https://archive.vn/zb4DF

NewfBC · #**893** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 2:37 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by bb1510

Archived link:

https://archive.vn/zb4DF

Good job!

Ron.

giallo · #**894** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 2:57 AM**

Very interesting. I'm curious to see what Cadillac Fairview has in store for the Four Seasons site. Hopefully, it's something architecturally significant.

Metro-One · #**895** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 3:10 AM**

Doesn't Microsoft still occupy a large amount of space in the Nordstrom building?

What a waste to renovate and then demolish only a decade later.

Not that I ever really liked the renovation, it has a severe lack of color, lighting and animation for the area it serves, but still....

jollyburger · #**896** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 3:12 AM**

BTW Sony is leaving 725 Granville.

logan5 · #**897** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 3:44 AM**

The focus is on the Four Seasons, but the former Eatons building is a much bigger site with more potential. I would imagine they wouldn't tear these buildings down unless they were planning to build something much more substantial. View cones will limit things of course.

officedweller · #**898** Posted **Jan 3, 2025, 4:17 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by bb1510

Archived link:

https://archive.vn/zb4DF

Quote:

Editor’s Note: Cadillac Fairview has retracted its earlier statements that the Nordstrom building structure will be demolished for redevelopment, but maintains that the 30-storey tower that was previously home to the Four Seasons Vancouver Hotel will be demolished for redevelopment into a brand new tower.

https://archive.vn/zb4DF

EDIT - just saw it over in the Pacific Centre thread...

vehementi · #**899** Posted **Jan 4, 2025, 6:45 PM**

From the reddit thread, apparently CF spoke in error

Quote:

"Cadillac Fairview has retracted its earlier statements that the Nordstrom building structure will be demolished for redevelopment"

jollyburger · #**900** Posted **Jan 8, 2025, 5:52 AM**

FWIW I just noticed a bunch of ABC councillors were meeting with Arno Matis in 2024 over the 852-872 Seymour St project. Not sure what is happening with Bene Group

https://www.benehomes.com/en/