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Tag Archives: non-market
New Jubilee House
Just as City Council approve a rezoning for a privately built 13 storey non-market housing project, details of another similar project appear. This is a development application for the replacement of Jubilee House, to be built in conjunction with a tower … Continue reading
1107 Seymour Street
The details of this Downtown South proposal first showed up in August 2012. It’s a 15 storey rental building on the corner of Seymour and Helmcken Street. It’s just been approved for rezoning to build 81 residential units and nearly 20,000 … Continue reading
215 W2nd Avenue
Another Southeast False Creek condo project? No – another of the City of Vancouver provided sites for BC Housing. DYS designed this 147 unit 11 storey project that started construction in July 2011 and as we expected, it fits in just fine … Continue reading
Posted in South East False Creek
Tagged BC Housing, DYS Architecture, midrise, non-market, Rental
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Wall Centre 900 Hastings
We first mentioned this project back in January 2012, it was given a green light for rezoning in November, and now the revised design has been supported by the Urban Design Panel. It’s surprisingly big, and will make a huge difference to … Continue reading
508 Helmcken Street
We only featured this tower (or rather, an earlier version) three weeks ago, and commented that it would change as the Urban Design Panel found the earlier design somewhat overbearing for its context right next to the Emery Barnes Park. So here … Continue reading
The Budzey Building – 220 Princess Avenue
Another of the City and Province non-market housing projects has started construction. It’s one of the biggest – 147 units of housing – and it will be managed by the Raincity Housing and Support Society. It’s named after Lorna Budzey who died … Continue reading
McLaren House – Howe Street
Getting close to completion, here’s another of the 14 projects funded by the Province on land owned by the City of Vancouver to create non-market housing for the homeless and hard-to-house. Construction started in July 2011, so it’s taken about 18 months … Continue reading
111 Princess Avenue
The excavation has started for another of the City of Vancouver/BC Housing non-market housing projects, this one on the corner of Princess and Alexander. Until a few years ago Marie Gomez Place was here, a smaller non-market housing project from 1983 … Continue reading
41 East Hastings Street
Here’s another Downtown Eastside rezoning proposal on East Hastings. This one is designed by Perkins + Will for Atira Development Society, with two floors of commercial space and twelve of residential above that. The housing mix is complex; there are 169 … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown Eastside
Tagged Atira Development Society, midrise, mixed use, non-market, Perkins + Will, Rental
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557 East Cordova Street
Here’s a Downtown Eastside development application that just got support from the Urban Design Panel. It’s a small infill project designed by Gair Williamson, described in the UDP Agenda as a ‘four-storey residential building with 24 units of achievable home … Continue reading
