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Originally Posted by bb1510
lots of past rumours/discussion a few years back in the threads, starchitect "ABC", very tall...
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Originally Posted by bb1510
here is a recap of the CoV's higher building policy:
The highest buildings (i.e. ~550-700’) are located within the Central Business District. Of these buildings, the tallest buildings (i.e. ~700’) should be located on one of Vancouver’s three primary streets: West Georgia, Burrard and Granville
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I usually have a very good memory for past discussions regarding any rumours of a new landmark tower downtown and I can recall only
two in the past decade in proximity to one of the three primary streets above. One of them became the Butterfly, which after having 200 feet shaved off by the city, is already underway.
That leaves only the once widely-rumoured 750 foot Holborn tower on the Bay parkade site. That, of course, faded away after the city considered and eventually rejected the inclusion of that site among a handful of candidate sites for taller buildings under the new Higher Building policy being developed at that time. The city ultimately settled on considering only the few downtown sites which are encumbered by no viewcones except the Queen Elizabeth Park viewcone. The Bay parkade site, by contrast, is encumbered by at least one viewcone in addition to the Queen Elizabeth Park viewcone.
So, if the rumour that the additional viewcone over the Bay parkade site could be negated in the near future is true, then in the absence of further information I think the most plausible guess is the Bay parkade site, where Holborn has privately been working on a new version of its former plan in anticipation of a possible future change to the viewcones affecting it.