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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Soon…
We seem to have mostly posted projects that are being proposed, rezoned, or have recently started in the past couple of weeks. Here are three that are well on their way to finishing. All all located Downtown, and each has … Continue reading
The Flats – 217 East Georgia
Here’s a Chinatown proposal discussed at the 27 July Urban Design panel. The project is a 9-storey, 26 unit residential building with retail and parking at grade. The city lot it’s proposed for is only 25 feet wide. The building sits next … Continue reading
Posted in Chinatown, Downtown Eastside
Tagged ASIR Architects, Birmingham & Wood, condo, midrise
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Uptown
Another project we’ve overlooked until now; Uptown is under construction behind the Biltmore Hotel. Sorry, the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel. Really, if you were stopped and asked where that was, would you have a clue? The Biltmore – no problem. … Continue reading
Posted in Mount Pleasant
Tagged Concord Pacific, condo, Linda Baker Architects, midrise
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The Mark
It’ll be difficult to ignore this tower once it’s complete – but we’ve managed to overlook it somehow in earlier posts. Like the Rolston the Mark sits close to Granville Street (actually, right next to the Seymour off-ramp) where briefly … Continue reading
1050 Expo Boulevard
Another of the non-market sites being built with BC Housing funding on City-owned sites moved a little closer to development in July. 1050 Expo Boulevard was originally going to be a 139 unit 9 storey high concrete structure. Presumably the … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, False Creek
Tagged BC Housing, DYS Architecture, midrise, non-market
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Alexandra
Alexandra appears to be back. The on again, off again project that will sit on the corner of Davie and Bidwell in the West End features a 19 storey tower designed by Henriquez Partners Architects. It incorporates the facade of … Continue reading
Posted in West End
Tagged condo, Henriquez Partners Architects, mixed use, Rental, tower
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1021 West Hastings Office Tower
Having received a development permit in early April 2011 for their 420′ tall 35 storey office tower squeezed between the Marine Building and the Guinness Tower, Oxford Properties have already announced they are moving ahead with the $150m development. The University Club on … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown
Tagged Kohn Pedersen Fox, Musson Cattell Mackey, office, Oxford Properties, tower
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Screen change
The rezoning for the Marine Gateway scheme was approved at a Public Hearing at City Hall in mid July. A part of the mixed use project includes a new multi-screen movie theatre, a recreational opportunity currently missing from the southern … Continue reading
OnQue
The slightly peculiarly titled ‘OnQue’ (presumably On Quebec Street) is just reaching completion on East Broadway at Quebec Street. Replacing the Legion’s poppy factory, a more appropriate name might be ‘Finally’. The first proposal for the site was made back in … Continue reading
