[jlousa]

Onni Group has a new project on Union St between Main and Gore, they will be calling it V6A which I can only guess is the postal code, anyways always good to see m good infill and more development in that area.

[SpongeG]

Oldest UBC Building Gets Extreme Makeover


As the University of British Columbia celebrates its first Centenary, the oldest building on its Vancouver campus reopens today with new state-of-the-art research and learning facilities and its historic charms intact.

The renewal of the Chemistry Building is the latest project of UBC Renew, a $120-million partnership between UBC and the provincial government designed to breathe new life into older buildings on B.C.’s oldest and largest university campus.

Construction of the Chemistry Building began in 1914 but halted due to World War I and didn’t resume until 1923, following the historic Great Trek, when 1,200 students marched from 12th and Cambie to the Point Grey campus, urging the provincial government to continue developing infrastructure at UBC. On March 7, UBC marks its first century since the 1908 passage of the University Act that created the province’s first post-secondary institution.

NB: Historic and current photographs of the Chemistry Building and video of the Great Trek student protest are available at www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/download.

Major discoveries have been made in the building, including the first noble gas compound and technology that led to the creation of QLT, UBC’s best known spin-off company.

“The Chemistry Building is synonymous with UBC’s history,” says UBC President Stephen Toope, who joins Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell in the official opening.

“The historic photo of students congregating in the concrete skeleton of this building epitomizes our student activism and the birth of the Point Grey campus. Restoring its past grandeur and modernizing the facility, all the while improving safety and sustainability, is what UBC Renew is all about,” says Toope.

One of the three buildings in the original 1912 campus plan -- the other two are the Library and the Power Plant -- the Chemistry Building features B.C. granite on its façade in the Collegiate Gothic style, complete with copper scuppers and gargoyles, and traditional oak trimmed interiors, all of which have been preserved in the Renew process.

The renovation also includes new lecture theatres, student space, open laboratories with enhanced safety features and a building seismic upgrade.

“We’ve partnered with UBC to restore and upgrade the Chemistry Building under an innovative funding agreement called UBC Renew that is preserving the environment, taxpayers’ dollars and UBC’s architectural heritage,” Coell said. “The result is that students and faculty have access to state-of-the-art chemistry labs where researchers can work together in a safe, productive environment.”

In addition to preserving a heritage landmark, the Chemistry Renew project incorporated sustainable practices that saved $15.9 million in costs, diverted 323 tons of solid waste from land fills, and prevented 1,155 tons of carbon emissions from being released into the atmosphere, compared to constructing a new comparable replacement building. For more information on UBC Renew, visit www.lbs.ubc.ca/renew.

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2008/mr-08-012.html

[excel]

Anyone have any information on Concord Pacific's development on Oak, couple blocks south of 41st. the website doesnt have much info.
http://www.thegrandonoak.ca/

[officedweller]

Jericho Wharf to be demolished, partially demolished or repaired:

http://vancouver.ca/parks/info/planning/jerichomarginalwharf/index.htm

Public meeting March 12, 2008.

[flight_from_kamakura]

some excellent 'win-win' news here, as the city forces the developer to do the right this, gets a cool old limited-use heritage low rise saved, and prepares to hand amacon a pile of money in bonus density. this is 'vancouverism' at its best, if you ask me.

http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=179acdfb-4687-4d2c-b86e-b6593f609299

Developer offers artists new space

Artists in the heritage building at Main and Prior won't get to keep their sunlit studios. But the developer plans to provide them with spaces at East Seventh Avenue and Scotia.


Eri Ishii has mixed feelings about the offer from Amacon. She and other artists had hoped at least some studios could remain in the B.C. Electric Railway Men's Quarters, which features high ceilings.

Richard Wittstock, vice-president of development for Amacon, said allowing artist studios and new residential condominium suites in the same building would be complicated. "First and foremost, the city keeps reminding us that the zoning doesn't allow a combination of artist studios and residential uses in the same building," Wittstock said.

Even if Amacon got around the zoning, it would have to provide separate entrances and exits, elevators and fire separation, which are costly and would eat up too much of the building's floor space, he added. The city won't give Amacon a building permit for Main and Prior until a heritage revitalization agreement for the company's development at Seventh and Scotia is approved, which would secure the replacement of the studios.

Amacon is drafting a lease for tenants to retain their old spaces at the same rental rates for a year. The new studios will comprise at least half of a 10,720-square-foot single-storey heritage building with high ceilings that's currently used by an auto body business. The entire building may be leased to artists and cultural organizations.

The artists will also get the first right of refusal for a 1,000-square-foot ground floor commercial space at Main and Prior. The artists at Main and Prior pay $1 a square foot for their space. Their new studios at Seventh and Scotia will be more expensive. "The market, by their own estimation, is a buck fifty to a buck seventy-five a foot. And we're saying a buck seventy-five to two bucks a foot, so we're in the range," Wittstock said, adding the artists have asked Amacon to keep the upgrade as basic as possible to keep their rents low.

Amacon is negotiating a density bonus from the city for providing the spaces. Council will decide March 11 on the heritage revitalization agreement for the Main and Prior development.

[raggedy13]

Amacon is negotiating a density bonus from the city for providing the spaces.

Wonder if they'd try to use any of it at 1133 Melville.

[phesto]

Wonder if they'd try to use any of it at 1133 Melville.

It's a possibility, though they've already got enough density to do 450,000 sq ft on the site. The question is whether or not the City will allow an increase in density for office use in the next couple of years.

I can confirm that Amacon intends to demolish the building in July 2010. All the leases in the building are set to expire on or before June 30, 2010. The plan is to build an office tower, and apparently there is growing support among City staff for increases in density and height for office use.

Purely speculation on my part, but because there are no view cone restrictions on the site and because Amacon is keen to build a landmark building, I wouldn't be surpised if they push for more height (ie. ~600 ft)

Also, they have a plan to use the residential floors as accomodation space for media and security for the Olympics., so it won't sit vacant as it has for the past two years.

[hollywoodnorth]

Business in Vancouver March 11-17, 2008; issue 959

Real estate roundup: Peter Mitham

Zalm’s Fantasy Gardens property sold again

Richmond’s Townline Group to seek community input on the future of the 22-acre theme park property formerly owned by ex-premier

Townline snares gardens

Townline Group of Richmond has bought Fantasy Gardens, the 22-acre theme park that has languished on Steveston Highway at No. 5 Road in Richmond for more than a decade.

Townline plans to launch a community consultation regarding the future of the site in April. Rick Ilich, president of Townline, expects the site will host a mix of uses consistent with the current zoning and reflect sustainable development principles. The current vision for the site includes a classic mix of uses, including residential and commercial, but the public consultation will determine the exact ratios.

The property is significant, given a location that effectively makes it the gateway to Richmond for anyone approaching from the south.

In addition, half the property is within the province’s agricultural land reserve, with zoning that permits botanical gardens (one of the features of the theme park when it was owned by former B.C. premier and nursery operator Bill Vander Zalm). Townline isn’t planning to seek exclusion of the agricultural portion. It will incorporate it within the redevelopment.

Terms of Townline’s purchase, which closed in December, were not disclosed.

The former owner of Fantasy Gardens, Asiaworld (Canada) Development Corp., bought the property from Vander Zalm in 1990. Asiaworld planned a 15-storey hotel and country club for the site, but those plans never came to fruition.

Proceeding, with caution

Caution is the watchword these days at some of Victoria’s high-profile development projects.

With the recent halt to yet another condo development in Vancouver (the Eden Group’s Sophia project in Mount Pleasant, now in receivership), Richard Lovett of the Bayview project overlooking Victoria harbour said developers are wise to be prudent.

“It’s a cautious market to buy in,” he said, noting that the project saw its best month in six for sales in January. Approximately 75% of the 139 units in the first phase of the project, being developed by Ken and Patricia Mariash of Bayview Properties Ltd., have sold since the project’s stylish launch in November 2006.

Still, Sophia is a reminder that developers need to be aware of market risks.

Sales at Bayview are “on target,” Lovett said, but that doesn’t mean the second tower of the three-tower project – worth about $400 million – is about to be launched.

“With the cost of construction, the cost of land and the cost of financing these days … you don’t want to have to jump out of the chute and have to retrench later on.”

It’s a similar story over at Dockside Green, which has benefited from heightened awareness of environmental issues but has seen sales in its second phase slowdown since last September. While the first residential building has sold all but seven of its 94 units, just 70% of its 171-unit second phase have sold. Respectable, yes, but six months ago sales stood at 60%.

Still, Russ Cowan, who oversees sales and marketing for Dockside Green, is pleased.He expects a new building to begin construction this year, although no date has been set. While the volume of new product hitting the Victoria market and repercussions from the housing meltdown in the U.S. are contributing to a cautious attitude, he considers sales to date encouraging. The backing of Vancity Enterprises Ltd., which owns 75% of the project, is also reassuring.

Said Cowan: “There’s nothing in our case that would see us not moving forward into that next phase this year.”

Agricultural taxes reviewed

The province is reviewing farm property assessments across the province in response to outrage over a review of farm properties late last year on the Saanich peninsula.

The B.C. Assessment Authority last fall reviewed its classification of 204 farm properties in the Capital region that lie outside the province’s Agricultural Land Reserve.

Standard practice in B.C. is for properties outside the ALR to be assessed at farm-class rates only if they’re being farmed. Properties not being farmed are assessed at their highest and best use.

Split classifications also apply to urban mixed-use properties such as live-work developments and industrial complexes where warehousing and manufacturing (two different uses for assessment purposes) might occupy the same building.

As a result of the review on Vancouver Island, 97 properties were issued assessment notices in January noting a split classification, while 28 properties were stripped of their farm status altogether. Just 79 retained their existing farm status. The changes sparked criticisms from local farmers, mostly small operators, who argued that the changes were making it harder for them to make ends meet.

While farmers’ criticisms echoed the gripes of urban property owners who’ve also been hit with split assessments, Small Business and Revenue Minister Rick Thorpe has appointed a panel to ensure farm properties are receiving “fair, equitable and transparent” treatment.

The 11-member panel, chaired by Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard and Peace River MLA Blair Lekstrom, will provide recommendations aimed at streamlining and simplifying the assessment process for farm properties. Panel members from the Lower Mainland include Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie and Abbotsford turkey farmer Garnett Etsell.

The panel’s report is due by July 31, 2009. Changes would be made in time for 2010 assessments.

[officedweller]

Anyone have any information on Concord Pacific's development on Oak, couple blocks south of 41st. the website doesnt have much info.
http://www.thegrandonoak.ca/

Just got an e-mail from Concord with link to this rendering. Looks like Richmond!! You wonder if they should go taller with more green space. That's a City park in the foreground.

http://www.thegrandonoak.com/_ecamp/render.jpg

[SpongeG]

theres a few places like that along cambie as well and oak

they look ok but suburban

[squeezied]

i wasnt that pleased when i saw the rendering. the first thing i thought was "wow, thats short" and "wow, thats way too uniform." i also didnt get the impression of 'luxury' as the website made it seem. it looks very bland and cookie-cutter to me, but then again it is concord.....

[Smooth]

That townhouse complex looks like typical middle income housing in London.

[excel]

Thanks for the render. There is another site being developed one block south of this one, any info?

[flight_from_kamakura]

Honestly, I think we should all get together and oppose that oak street project with all the passion we can. It's too far too low and far too generic. Why isn't concord pushing the city for 4-6 story townhomes? this is about 500 meters of a metro station and they want lowrise housing there? it's just baffling.

[Architype]

^ Re: The townhousing render design - it reflects Vancouver's "heritage" of Tudor type design, but a little more variation wouldn't have hurt. One of the things that made Vancouver livable was the avoidance of too much identical repetition, that is until large blocks of land were under the control of single developers. However, this is the kind of densification you can expect to see in the more suburban areas. It looks like you have maybe four or six units where one suburban house would fit, and that is considered acceptable density by most people.

[mooks28]

Onni Group has a new project on Union St between Main and Gore, they will be calling it V6A which I can only guess is the postal code, anyways always good to see m good infill and more development in that area.

Any idea what they're knocking down to put this in? That block is already pretty full.

[jlousa]

Any idea what they're knocking down to put this in? That block is already pretty full.


I happened to drive by there a few days ago and it appears they have knocked down half the block, probably 3-4 building directly east of the alley behing Main St.

[officedweller]

I happened to drive by there a few days ago and it appears they have knocked down half the block, probably 3-4 building directly east of the alley behing Main St.

There's a large coop or social housing block near there (I think it's on Union) - that faces the park near the viaduct entrance. Is this site next to that one?

[jlousa]

That's correct the large building with the trees on the subroof is still there, and I beleive everything else to the west is now gone.

[squeezied]

Thanks for the render. There is another site being developed one block south of this one, any info?

dunno. but i hope i'll turn out very nice, it takes up an entire block..

[worldwide]

Honestly, I think we should all get together and oppose that oak street project with all the passion we can. It's too far too low and far too generic. Why isn't concord pushing the city for 4-6 story townhomes? this is about 500 meters of a metro station and they want lowrise housing there? it's just baffling.

they probably dont want to deal with the vancouver nimby's and really this is some decent density. its also just over a kilometer from the site to the 41st canada line station.

[jlousa]

Okay have some info on V6A, the Onni project on Union St.

9 Storeys, 3 levels u/g parking.
240,000sqft.
140 parking stalls.
~200 condo units.
15,000sqft of CRU on main level.
Green roof.

Sounds like a large project at 200 units, good to see they are only calling for 140parking stalls, well less then 1 per unit.

[hollywoodnorth]

The Burger King site project on Main is called Q1. (Quebec @ 1st)

[SFUVancouver]

Okay have some info on V6A, the Onni project on Union St.

9 Storeys, 3 levels u/g parking.
240,000sqft.
140 parking stalls.
~200 condo units.
15,000sqft of CRU on main level.
Green roof.

Sounds like a large project at 200 units, good to see they are only calling for 140parking stalls, well less then 1 per unit.

^ Where is that exactly?

[jlousa]

It's on Union between Main and Gore across from the greenspace that connects to the Dunsmir viaduct. The buildings were knocked down a couple of weeks ago.

[LeftCoaster]

great news! the eastward march continues...

[hollywoodnorth]

It's on Union between Main and Gore across from the greenspace that connects to the Dunsmir viaduct. The buildings were knocked down a couple of weeks ago.


any renders out? Glad to see a company like ONNI taking the risk on a project like that in that area.... :)

[vanlaw]

any renders out? Glad to see a company like ONNI taking the risk on a project like that in that area.... :)

Should fit in well with Ginger, which I believe is right around the corner on Main.

[hollywoodnorth]

Business in Vancouver March 18-24, 2008; issue 960

Real estate roundup: Peter Mitham

Vancouver green building centre gets federal government funding boost

Despite stalled Oliver development, hotel construction in B.C. enjoying boom times

Green backing

There’s some green backing for a Vancouver initiative backing green buildings.

The federal government is putting $180,000 behind the Light House Sustainable Building Centre on Granville Island.

Delivered over two years, the funding will support the delivery of several programs the two-year-old centre offers consumers and businesses that aim to reduce buildings’ environmental impact. During the past two years, the centre’s annual budget has increased to $700,000 from $400,000 in its pilot year.

In addition to funding from the federal and provincial governments, Light House receives revenue from fees it charges clients for a host of consulting services.

The new funding will further its efforts to become a one-stop shop for information on sustainable practices for both the construction sector and consumers, said Helen Goodland, executive director of Light House.

A survey last fall for TD Canada Trust found that 75% of B.C. residents who are homeowners or who are considering buying a home said they would be willing to pay a premium for environment friendly features, while 39% of survey respondents said the environment is an important consideration when they’re drafting renovation plans. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. expects B.C. to see approximately $7 billion in home renovations this year.

Bellstar backs off

Bellstar Developments Inc. has let its option to buy the Centennial RV Park in downtown Oliver lapse, backing off plans to develop a $75 million wine village in the centre of the Okanagan town.

But the Calgary-based developer has stated that it’s still interested in identifying other locations in the municipality for the project, which would hand Oliver a major new hotel to service the growing volume of tourists drawn to local wineries.

Bellstar executed a purchase agreement for the 3.6-acre property last fall in partnership with the Co-operators Development Corp. Ltd., but has since concluded that the site – made available by the municipality – is, according to a company statement, “problematic for the long-term sustainability of the project.”

Oliver acquired the site as part of a deal with the provincial government that gave it about five acres at a cost of $153,000. Oliver Mayor Ron Hovanes said Bellstar would have acquired the site for $1.1 million.

The project was supposed to break ground this spring, and the Co-operators and Bellstar partnership would have redeveloped the RV park with upwards of 130 residential units, a hotel and commercial district.

“The Centennial RV Park today is not the highest and best use,” said Hovanes, noting it would take upwards of $1 million to upgrade the 35-site facility to current standards.

The municipality looks forward to Bellstar returning with plans for a new location for the project, but Hovanes was stoic about the collapse of Bellstar’s decision regarding the site.

“We’re not in any worse of a position than we were yesterday.”

Hotels on track

The fate of the Oliver development notwithstanding, B.C. hotels are enjoying boom times.

The latest Colliers International Hotels survey of hotel markets in Canada forecasts a surge in rooms across Western Canada this year, with 61 hotels scheduled to open in 2008. That’s almost twice as many as the 32 set to open next year.

Colliers said the activity is notable because it diverges from the traditional pattern in which Central Canada dominates new hotel construction.

While the boom may sound excessive for a region that typically sees between 20 and 30 new properties open each year, Colliers reports that a strong economy is boosting demand. The phenomenon is evident particularly in outlying areas of B.C. like Fort St. John. Two new hotels in the city will boost capacity by a third by year’s end, while an additional four properties could be developed by 2010.

However, the big year for Vancouver will be 2009.

While completion of the L’Hermitage at Robson and Richards will bring 40 units to the market this year and the opening of the Loden will light up Melville, five properties, including the Fairmont Pacific Rim and Shangri-La, won’t open their doors till next year. •

[jlousa]

Known about this for a while now but couldn't say anything for obvious reasons. Hopefully it turns out great, as I know some of the competing proposals were spectular.


Vancouver’s Little Mountain housing complex slated for redevelopment
Jean Sorensen
correspondent

VANCOUVER

Colliers International is expected to announce in early April that it has closed a deal with Holborn Development to buy and develop the 15.25-acre, provincially-owned Little Mountain housing site in Vancouver’s central city area.
“We are down to one possible purchaser,” said Howie Charters, vice-president and managing director of Colliers, which is marketing the site for BC Housing.
Charters said he is bound by confidentiality not to disclose the name of the development company.
We are hopeful to make an announcement within the next three to four weeks. An agreement is fairly immanent, he said.
However, the Journal has learned that it is Holborn that put forward the successful proposal for the site development in November 2007.
`It was chosen from a roster of qualified buyers submitting plans for the area’s development.
Sheryl Lim, development manager for Holborn, confirmed that the company was in exclusive negotiations with Collier, but would not divulge details of what the negotiations involved or details of the Holborn proposal being put forward.
The Little Mountain multi-phase development, which is to feature mixed market housing with social housing, is several months past the posted deadline for selecting a buyer.
A buyer for the city’s oldest social housing site, which shoulders onto Queen Elizabeth Park, Nat Bailey Stadium and Hillcrest Park (where Olympic facilities are being built), was to have been selected by January 2008.
It is taking longer than we expected, acknowledged BC Housing media spokesman Sam Rainboth, however, he would not elaborate as to why the deal was taking so long.
The vision for Little Mountain’s development includes a mix of subsidized and market housing, along with community facilities and other neighbourhood amenities.
The site is east of Queen Elizabeth Park and bounded by Ontario, Main streets and 33rd and 37th avenues.
The Little Mountain housing site currently consists of 37 buildings hosting 224 social housing units.
The structures were originally built in 1954 by the provincial government to provide accommodation to war veterans.
The units are all obsolete said Charters.
He added that there has been an early agreement in the development stage between the City of Vancouver and BC Housing to retain the replacement units on site when the area is developed.
While not disclosing details of the ongoing negotiations, Charter said that there was the option for BC Housing to retain the new units on part of the site and deal with the potential purchaser to build the new replacement units.
BC Housing may also opt to find its own development company.
In a 2007 press release, the provincial government, stated that it will be investing half of net proceeds from the land deal into social housing in the City of Vancouver while the other 50 per cent of revenues will be invested in social housing elsewhere in the province.
Redevelopment of Little Mountain is guided by the principle that the residents onsite are being relocated and have first choice to move back into the redeveloped units.
Holborn Development is part of the Holborn Group operated by Vancouver entrepreneur Simon Lim (no relation to Sheryl) who is developing the 127-room Ritz-Carlton hotel.
The Ritz will occupy the first 20 floors of a new 60-storey, Arthur Erickson-designed twisting tower at 1133 West Georgia.
The hotel-condo project is valued at $500 million.

[SpongeG]

that can tire/price smart pet smart/starbucks etc place in east van is coming along fast

whens the expected opening? this fall? or next year?

[Hed Kandi]

Normally I don't read this section but....


Is this new?

Adrian Smith designed Vancouver residences???

http://www.smithgill.com/VancouverResidences.htm

[dreambrother808]

^^^^^

wow, very impressive renderings.

[SFUVancouver]

^ Naturally the Dunbar crowd is screaming bloody murder.

That project is one half of the rumour from a while back that Adrian Smith and Emaar were going to start project(s) in Vancouver. Emaar is doing a townhouse complex in South Surrey. I saw the flyer they mailed out.

They are going to be the tallest townhouses in the world (kidding, of course).

[mr.x]

Hastings Park conservancy loses appeal

Keith Fraser, The Province
Published: Friday, March 21, 2008

The Hastings Park Conservancy is "devastated" by the decision of B.C.'s highest court to reject an appeal of a City of Vancouver decision allowing slot machines at the racetrack, says Derek Creighton, a lawyer for the community group.

In October 2005, city council enacted a controversial zoning bylaw that allowed up to 600 slots to be installed at the track. The city entered into an operating agreement with the racetrack, and the track operator's development permit application was conditionally approved by the city's development permit board. The community group took the case to court, arguing the zoning bylaw was invalid. But a B.C. Supreme Court judge upheld the bylaw and the right of the city to enter into the operating agreement.

The conservancy, concerned about the negative impacts of such things as additional traffic in the area, then took its case to the B.C. Court of Appeal. But yesterday, a three-member panel upheld the B.C. Supreme Court ruling. In his reasons for judgment, Appeal Court Justice David Tysoe found that the bylaw was neither void nor invalid. And he ruled the city "had the power to authorize the use of slot machines at Hastings Park," as well as to enter into the operating agreement with the track operator.

Creighton said his clients were upset with the ruling and are considering a move to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. "They're . . . very concerned about what it means for the whole discretionary-zoning process in the City of Vancouver. What the decision appears to suggest is that city council can approve a controversial use and then all of the factors which mitigate that use . . . all of those things don't have to be part of the public hearing."

[mr.x]

^ Naturally the Dunbar crowd is screaming bloody murder.

That project is one half of the rumour from a while back that Adrian Smith and Emaar were going to start project(s) in Vancouver. Emaar is doing a townhouse complex in South Surrey. I saw the flyer they mailed out.

They are going to be the tallest townhouses in the world (kidding, of course).

lol, i actually got one of their flyers awhile back, trying to get me on their side with their stance on the Dunbar development. What is being planned there anyway? I know that it's social housing and perhaps even some drug rehab, which is their main concern, but how big is the development? A condo tower? I doubt it.

Those Adrian Smith renderings are awesome....so it's in Surrey?

[jlousa]

The Dunbar/Emaar development is that one pictured, it's a lil different but that's it for the most part. It will be mostly senior housing.

[jlousa]

Glad to see I'm not the only one working late on Good Friday. :(
Looks like it's moving full steam ahead as I posted earlier, going to start even sooner then I though. :tup:

CONDOMINIUM APARTMENTS & COMMERCIAL Proj: 9063112-2
Vancouver, Greater Vancouver RD BC PREPARING PLANS
Oakridge Shopping Centre/Condo Towers, 650 W 41 Ave & Cambie, V5Z 2M9
$200,000,000 est
Start: 2009
Note:The Oakridge Centre Policy Statement was approved by the City's Standing Committee Mar 15/07. A formal rezoning application will be made by Fall/Winter 2008. Formal design to commence by Fall/Winter 2008. Further update Oct/Nov 2008. See the related Shopping Centre Expansion project under #9063111.
Project: Proposed condo tower development on the shopping centre site with a total of 1.2 million sq ft; number of units is undetermined; several levels of u/g prkg.
Scope: 1,200,000 square feet; 28 acres

[mr.x]

That Emaar rendering is the Dunbar site? It doesn't look anything like the area. But it sure is sweet.


Great news on Oakridge! It looks like the region is getting another Metrotown. Thx!

[squeezied]

where exactly on dunbar is this project?

[mr.x]

where exactly on dunbar is this project?

On the southeast corner of West 16th and Dunbar:
http://www.dunbar-vancouver.org/images/issues/16th-dunbar-cu.jpg

http://www.dunbar-vancouver.org/images/issues/16th-dunbar-med.jpg



These pics are from a NIMBY group against the development:
http://www.dunbar-vancouver.org/htms/Dunbar-16-Dev.htm

Their main argument is the proximity of school's to the site....well, it's not like these people are straight from the street nor are they AIDS walking rabie invested zombies. The sheer fear, even from my mom, is truly astounding.
http://www.dunbar-vancouver.org/images/issues/16th-dunbar-lg.jpg

[mcminsen]

Hello everyone, this is my first post.

For the most part I have thoroughly enjoyed this website, until I saw this:

"Their main argument is the proximity of school's to the site....well, it's not like these people are straight from the street nor are they walking AIDS walking rabie invested zombies. They sheer fear, even from my mom, is truly astounding." -MrX2

I'm not sure I really understand what was trying to be said but I'm a little freaked out about the tone and characterization. I am a 23 year survivor of HIV/AIDS.

"...walking AIDS walking rabie invested zombies." ??!!!

I am a condo owner in a high rise in Yaletown and I often see people on my neighbourhood streets that look pretty scary but I don't think of them as WALKING AIDS INFECTED ZOMBIES! I think of them as human beings with problems. I have to leave it at that. I'm too upset.

[mr.x]

My apologies, that wasn't my intention to offend anyone. But i was just trying to align this phobia of drug addicts trying to get their lives back together with the phobia that unfortunately prevails with some people that have this dreadful fear of having contact with anybody that has AIDS, as if they were walking zombies that were highly contagious and out to get them. Certainly, HIV-positive/AIDS individuals are not walking zombies.

The residents of my neighbourhood really think that students from the nearby schools could potentially be harmed or influenced into drugs if it's a drug rehab centre.

[quobobo]

:facepalm:

[jlousa]

Umm I have no idea what you're talking about, the Emaar project is this one

Details presented by Emaar to the neighbours on November 19th are as follows:

• project to extend from West 41st to the north edge of the current Fellowship Centre property.
• 5 concrete buildings varying in height from 3 to 8 storeys in a stepped arrangement
• site coverage will be nearly 90%
• senior oriented complex (senior-friendly market housing)
• plus/minus 50 units
• average unit size 1,400 sq ft
• majority of units 2 bedroom/2 bathroom
• 120 underground parking spots for residents plus 20 for church (likely with mechanical car park system)
• traffic to be oriented northbound to West 39th
• green space on roofs
• pool at southwest corner (facing West 41st)
• EcoDensity friendly
• external elevators
• geothermal heating


It's at 41st not 16th ave. There is even a current rendering I provided way back on page 1 of this very thread.

[MistyMountainHop]

it's not like these people are straight from the street nor are they AIDS walking rabie invested zombies.
http://www.dunbar-vancouver.org/images/issues/16th-dunbar-lg.jpg

No, you get those at St. George's :whip:

[eduardo88]

http://www.dunbar-vancouver.org/images/issues/16th-dunbar-lg.jpg

ok i realize this is a totally unproductive post but im a bit drunk and i have to say:

YAY!!! my old school before i moved away from vancouver is mentioned on this map (st georges!!!!)

haha i still remember being late pretty much every day even tho i lived like 10 minutes away on acadia road in ubc...

[eduardo88]

No, you get those at St. George's :whip:

HEY!!! whats wrong with saints?!??! its an awesome school!! i was there from gr2-7, gr9-10 before i was shipped off to boarding school in europe! its an amazing school for canada! best school in western canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO SAINTS!!!!

[mr.x]

HEY!!! whats wrong with saints?!??! its an awesome school!! i was there from gr2-7, gr9-10 before i was shipped off to boarding school in europe! its an amazing school for canada! best school in western canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO SAINTS!!!!

You're from Saints???:hell: I'm putting you on notice.

http://www.thirdeyeindustries.com/forum/abortion3.jpg

[MistyMountainHop]

HEY!!! whats wrong with saints?!??! its an awesome school!! i was there from gr2-7, gr9-10 before i was shipped off to boarding school in europe! its an amazing school for canada! best school in western canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO SAINTS!!!!

Saints is filled with drunks and stoners, the administration inflates the students' grades, their university dropout rates are alarmingly high, and the list goes on and on ... :hell:

[eduardo88]

You're from Saints???:hell: I'm putting you on notice.

http://www.thirdeyeindustries.com/forum/abortion3.jpg

OUCH!!!!

[eduardo88]

Saints is filled with drunks and stoners, the administration inflates the students' grades, their university dropout rates are alarmingly high, and the list goes on and on ... :hell:

thats so not true! grades are only inflated cause they go by the retarded bc system of eduation, where you can be in grade 12 and take ceramics or PE as a course. i really find bc's system of education so inadequate. i wish that private school were at least doing the IB system for the money my parents paid for saints, which to be honest wasnt THAT much (14k per year)

oh and about the stoner comment....what else is there to in vancoiver? you cant even have a beer or go clubbing till you're 19!

[mr.x]

14 grand a year is cheap?

[eduardo88]

14 grand a year is cheap?

well compared to my boarding school in germany which was 54 thousand EUROS per year and my uni in london which is 18 thousands POUNDS (without living expenses) saints is pretty cheap for the level of education and student support they give you. i wish every other school i had been to took care of their students they way saints does....

[SpongeG]

st georges is one of the best schools in Canada

for a private school its pretty cheap

[hollywoodnorth]

Business in Vancouver March 25-31, 2008; issue 961

Garbage sparks power play

Companies pushing plans to divert Metro Vancouver’s rising tide of waste from landfills and into B.C.’s power grid

Krisendra Bisetty

A fight over municipal garbage is heating up as Metro Vancouver appears set to ship its waste to Washington state next year when the Cache Creek landfill reaches capacity.

A new waste-to-energy power project broke ground last week on Vancouver Island, where an old pulp and paper mill is being converted to incinerate biomass to generate enough electricity to power 90,000 homes.Vancouver-based Green Island Energy Ltd. expects to spend up to $300 million over the next two years at its Gold River site, completely refurbishing two boilers and installing new emissions equipment and a high-efficiency steam turbine generator.

The company, kick-started in 2003 with a cheque written by Jewel Kilcher, an American singer-songwriter and one-time renewable power investor, has now hooked up with Covanta Holding Corp.

The New Jersey company has a huge stable of waste-to-energy plants and US$1.4 billion in revenue. It will develop the Gold River project as Green Island attempts to convince Metro that it can dispose of 400,000 tonnes of refuse annually.

“We can take it all,” said Bruce Clark, a Green Island shareholder and its vice-president. “We have huge demand from people who want to send us refuse-derived fuel.”

Clark said the company has contract offers from Los Angeles, Portland, Honolulu and Seattle.

“[However], we would prefer to source our fuel locally … because we really fundamentally don’t want to deal with cross-border issues.”

Rod Bryden, president and CEO of Plasco Energy Group Inc., also wants Metro Vancouver’s garbage.

The private company, which earlier this year received its first load of municipal waste from Ottawa, where it’s based, wants to build, at its own cost, a series of plants in Vancouver.

It will generate revenue from tipping fees of about $65 a tonne of waste received and from power sales to Hydro at premium “green” electricity rates.

Dismissing as “nonsense” plans to ship waste to the U.S., Bryden said dumping garbage in landfills creates gases that damage the ozone.

Plasco has proposed building 15 identical 100 tonne-per-day modules – about four to a typical plant – possibly at existing transfer stations. Each plant would cost the company approximately $125 million and would generate about 23 megawatts of electricity.

Plasco claims its gasification technology produces a synthetic gas without any emissions. However, Bryden conceded there would be some emissions when it’s used as a fuel in an engine to generate power.

In a 2006 submission to Metro, Green Island said its plan included using existing transfer stations to process waste into what it calls “refuse derived fuel,” which is then baled and barged to the site for incineration.

Its Muchalat Industries Ltd. parent bought the assets of the Bowater Pulp and Paper Co. for approximately $7 million in 2003. In 2006, Green Island, which has three principal partners, including chairman and CEO David Kingston, an Idaho investor with interests in large real estate developments, was awarded an electricity purchase agreement from BC Hydro.

“Our permits are issued, we have a site and we have great acceptance from the local community,” said Vancouver-based Clark. “No matter how great your technology is, you still have to get support from your neighbours.”

Green Island claims its solution is competitive or even far less expensive than some alternatives and that it poses no risk to taxpayers.

“We just don’t understand why local government, regional government, would be chasing down a path that just ends up with you and I having higher taxes,” said Clark. “We don’t get it, and so we sit back and our shareholders and bankers sit back and say, ‘what’s wrong with that picture in Vancouver. Why do they want to spend more and get less?’”

Meantime, 33-year-old Kilcher told Business in Vancouver in a statement that the project would reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by land-filling, bring “hundreds” of new jobs and provide clean and green certified energy for over 90,000 homes in B.C.

But Marvin Hunt, chairman of Metro Vancouver’s waste management committee, said a lot of questions remain around Green Island’s proposal, including what type of waste the company requires.

He said that because it’s not known whether waste can be barged during stormy winter months, storage and transportation are also issues.

The Surrey city councillor added that technologies like Plasco’s are still developing, and the company doesn’t have all the answers yet.

Having abandoned the idea of new landfills and realizing that exporting the waste is the only short-term alternative, the committee is looking at different waste-to-energy systems and expects to seek expressions of interest soon.

“We’re open to whatever technologies are [working] out there and are ‘relatively proven’.” •

[cornholio]

thats so not true! grades are only inflated cause they go by the retarded bc system of eduation, where you can be in grade 12 and take ceramics or PE as a course. i really find bc's system of education so inadequate. i wish that private school were at least doing the IB system for the money my parents paid for saints, which to be honest wasnt THAT much (14k per year)

oh and about the stoner comment....what else is there to in vancoiver? you cant even have a beer or go clubbing till you're 19!

:sly: I would suggest taking a step back from mommy and daddies plunder and getting a taste of the real world, it will make you feel like a much more complete person i think. When 99.9%(rounded down) of the worlds population cant afford that then its not cheap. Oh and yes I am probably jealous because I would love to be born having to only scratch my nuts, travel the world and learn. knowing full well that sooner or later the sperm donar and egg provider would croke and pass on their wealth giving me total control of the riches.:cheers:

[flight_from_kamakura]

...knowing full well that sooner or later the sperm donar and egg provider would croak and pass on their wealth.

in this case, i think you mean, döner, as in:

http://b.imagehost.org/0333/doner.jpg

:cool:

[officedweller]

From the Model Shop website, 4th & Alma:

http://www.modelshop.bc.ca/porty2/file/XI000/XI033/XI033-1.htm

http://www.modelshop.bc.ca/porty2/file/XI000/XI033/XI033-1.jpg

[djh]

From the Model Shop website, 4th & Alma:

http://www.modelshop.bc.ca/porty2/file/XI000/XI033/XI033-1.htm

http://www.modelshop.bc.ca/porty2/file/XI000/XI033/XI033-1.jpg

Is that where the petrol station is?

[quobobo]

I really hope that development isn't the faint pink colour it looks like in the photo. Aside from that, not bad but kind of boring and it could use a few (3-5) more stories.

[SFUVancouver]

Is that where the petrol station is?

No, it is where there has been a vacant lot for years. At one time someone started a community garden but I think that has fallen out of use.

I hate the current C2 zoning because of its arbitrary height limits. They end up creating building after building with immense flat roofs that are inaccessible for any purpose. Just think about how much nicer these sort of projects could be if they had green roofs, a rooftop patios for residents or even for a restaurant if they had a staircase and elevator leading up through the residential floors. The C2 height limits are up for review and I hope like hell they'll relax them significantly.

[raggedy13]

That'll be a great addition to that intersection. I have family and friends nearby so I frequent the area often. Look forward to finding out what the retail tenants will be.

[jlousa]

Some improvements coming to Cambie in the area around QE park. Sounds pretty good. Maybe someone like SFUVancouver can study the document and post the details.

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/20080403/documents/pe3.pdf

[vanlaw]

Some improvements coming to Cambie in the area around QE park. Sounds pretty good. Maybe someone like SFUVancouver can study the document and post the details.

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/20080403/documents/pe3.pdf

You'd think they would have thought about this a few years back, and implemeted while Cambie is torn up for CL construction. Kinda like figuring out that BC Place needs a new roof 24 months prior to Olympics, but 5 years after we won the bid. :koko:

[officedweller]

Opposite side of the boulevard, which would have been in heavy use when the Canada Line side was ripped up.

BTW - the side street (31st) looks very wide - like it was planned to be a grand boulevard that never materialized. It could have been a great ceremonial entrance to the redeveloped lands to the west.
Any thoughts anyone?

[officedweller]

Site of a retail bulding that burned down a good number of years ago - it's more like a field or garden plots right now. The gas station is a block west.

[SFUVancouver]

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9413/foundryandtheexchangeseqz0.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 27th, 2008.

[Kwik-E-Mart]

The City's is also kickstarting the revamping of Granville Mall after all the Canada Line construction happening in the past few years.

[SFUVancouver]

Downtown and the Olympic Village get most of the attention so I thought I would do an update of some of the out-of-sight, out-of-mind projects in Vancouver's South Granville neighbourhood.


Sakura | mid-rise tower on 11th at Birch
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8366/sakurasouthgranvillevante9.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

Coco | mid-rise tower on 14th at Spruce
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5086/cocosouthgranvillevancoen3.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

The Zone (u/c) and Spruce (app) | mid-rise towers on Broadway at Spruce
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5655/thezonefairviewvancouvejs8.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

Infill mid-rise tower | 13th between Hemlock and Birch
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6732/southgranvilleinfilltowmo0.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

A new retail building on Granville between 11th and 12th
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9803/newretailbuildingongranmh8.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

Infill mid-rise tower | Pine at 8th
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/848/infillmidrisetoweronpinrg5.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

Camera | mid-rise tower at Pine at 8th
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3142/cameraonpineat8thmarch2ut4.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

Mantra | slab (C2) low-rise on 4th at Pine
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3786/mantrac2midrisemarch292tp6.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

Lumen | infill low-rise on 3rd at Pine
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8490/lumeninfilllowrisemarchjg3.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.


A Bonus

One Kingsway | mid-rise tower and community centre/library on Kingsway at Main
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5480/onekingswayvancouvermarlz5.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 29th, 2008.

[flight_from_kamakura]

awesome update sfu vancouver! thanks a lot for these pics.

man, i love what's happening in between burrard and granville just east of kits.

and 1 kingsway finally looks fantastic, glad to see it's back on track.

[giallo]

Thanks a bunch, SFU!

[subdude]

Great!

These infill projects would be the envy of a lot of cities (Saskatoon I'm looking at you) and yet they fall under the radar here...

13th between Hemlock and Birch - looking good.

[SpongeG]

cool updates

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9803/newretailbuildingongranmh8.jpg

that is Lucky Brand Jeans

I am trying to remember what used to be there - was it a bakery?

[jo67sh]

cool updates



that is Lucky Brand Jeans

I am trying to remember what used to be there - was it a bakery?

--------------------------

it used to be a produce store

there used to be two produce stores side by side till one disappeared to make way for the new jeans store

[SpongeG]

yah thats right we always thought it was weird that they were side by side

slowly south granville is getting robsonized

le chateau seems to be taking forever to open its two new stores - the one west 4th and the other on south granville...

[deasine]

le chateau seems to be taking forever to open its two new stores - the one west 4th and the other on south granville...

I can't believe they are still in business. They have the worst clothes ever (as in for their pricing class).

[mr.x]

Well, they're in for some serious competition when H&M opens in downtown and starts its expansion throughout the region.

[agrant]

There is another beauty nobody seems to have mentioned, going up on Broadway, a block east of Arbutus called The Pulse. I think it'll be around six stories tall.

I noticed Mantra is going to have geothermal heating. I thought that was interesting.

[hollywoodnorth]

A Crane seems to be up for Ginger and for the Trout Lake Practice Facilty.

[cc85]

these buildings are just crazy, crazy good. thanks for the photos. didnt le chateau have a store in the old edward chapmans ladies shop at around west 11th?

im happily surprised to see the amount of new towers going up on the slope; it's good to get the density outside of the downtown core. now if we can only push the density up to west 16th, and spite all those old ppl!

[flight_from_kamakura]

There is another beauty nobody seems to have mentioned, going up on Broadway, a block east of Arbutus called The Pulse. I think it'll be around six stories tall.


beauty is right. i've been waiting for that lot to be developed for years. and what a stunning project, with retail at ground level and everything. now let's see how the iga property is developed (i was one of those nimbys that agitated against the office depot on that site, and i sure hope it's heavily retail oriented, ideally like the capers/duthie development on 4th between yew and vine).

[officedweller]

Thanks for the pics!

That developer's gotta have guts to call its project "lumen"!:)

[agrant]

"beauty is right. i've been waiting for that lot to be developed for years. and what a stunning project, with retail at ground level and everything. now let's see how the iga property is developed (i was one of those nimbys that agitated against the office depot on that site, and i sure hope it's heavily retail oriented, ideally like the capers/duthie development on 4th between yew and vine)."

:previous: I'm interested in that area too, since I live close by. Is there any word if and when that IGA lot will get developed? It could very well end up like that building on 4th, except you'd have a liquor store instead of Duthie's.

[officedweller]

I think Home Depot still owns it and are sitting on it - the store at The Rise essentially replaces the proposed store at Broadway & Arbutus.
As for a liquor store, there's some question whether a new one would be allowed - as it contravene current proximity restrictions to the elementary school a block away (the old store would be a nonconforming use).

[SpongeG]

I can't believe they are still in business. They have the worst clothes ever (as in for their pricing class).

oh i know

I was looking at a tshirt last summer and it was $45!

and it wasn't that great quality

i have never seen their stores busy

[agrant]

I think Home Depot still owns it and are sitting on it - the store at The Rise essentially replaces the proposed store at Broadway & Arbutus.
As for a liquor store, there's some question whether a new one would be allowed - as it contravene current proximity restrictions to the elementary school a block away (the old store would be a nonconforming use).Ha! The elementary school will have to move then. ;) Or move the liquir store location to the opposite end of the lot, beside David Hunter. That should be plenty distance away.

[officedweller]

Can't recall what the minimum distance is. But the liquor store was proposed for the "Pulse" project (old Finlandia Pharamcy site) - but was rejected as far as I know.

[eduardo88]

As for a liquor store, there's some question whether a new one would be allowed - as it contravene current proximity restrictions to the elementary school a block away (the old store would be a nonconforming use).

are they afraid of grade 4's with fake id's sneaking off at recess to buy a 40 of vodka?

[officedweller]

Who knows? It's not as if kids can't enter supermarkets in the US.

[dreambrother808]

lol, great point... but we don't want to upset the old ladies running the city of Vancouver now do we?

[flight_from_kamakura]

^

well, there are restrictions on liquor stores' proximity to schools in most us towns and counties (maybe nevada's exceptional?). in fact, there are some towns and counties in which alcohol is still prohibited!

as for the liquor store that was slated to go in there on (or adjacent to?) the finlandia site, that one fell through (if memory serves) because of that whole city bylaws mess limiting liquor shops to certain sizes and areas and the attendant moratorium on new private shops (and also, because that government liquor store didn't close like it was supposed to).

as for home depot, they put the property up for sale a few months ago (maybe nov. 2007). but don't cry for them, they stand to make a tidy sum there.

now let's see what happens with the parcel. i think the vine (on the old icbc site between yew and vine) turned out okay, but there's no doubt that the capers/duthie building is remarkable! the right development could really turn that part of broadway around!

[jlousa]

RFP has been issued for the Childrens hospital update. Here are some of the highlights.

Project Overview
For more than 50 years, the children and women of British Columbia have been receiving specialized care through the programs and services of BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre. These organizations are collectively referred to
as Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia (C&W). C&W, as an agency of the PHSA, delivers a comprehensive range of specialized tertiary and quaternary patient care services, and serves as a centre of excellence for education and research. To support the continued vision of C&W as a provincial, national and international campus of excellence, redevelopment of the Oak Street campus is required. This Project is the PHSA’s top
priority in its 10-year capital plan. Subject to government approvals, it is proposed that the Project will consist of:
• Decant and demolition of L and A North Wings of Shaughnessy Hospital;
• Design and construction of a new 47,000 square metre (505,000 square foot) Acute Care Centre (4 - 5 stories);
• Design and construction of a new 8,300 square metre (90,000 square foot) Child Development and Rehabilitation Outpatient facility on the Oak Street campus; and
• Funding for the Project, with an estimated cost of $500 million, will come from the Province and fundraising by the BC Children’s Foundation. A separate RFP is being issued for Architectural and Engineering Design services related to the decant and demolition of L and A North Wings of Shaughnessy Hospital which is referred to as Component One of the Children and Women’s Redevelopment Project.

[officedweller]

^as for home depot, they put the property up for sale a few months ago (maybe nov. 2007). but don't cry for them, they stand to make a tidy sum there.

now let's see what happens with the parcel. i think the vine (on the old icbc site between yew and vine) turned out okay, but there's no doubt that the capers/duthie building is remarkable! the right development could really turn that part of broadway around!

Thanks for the info. The Vine looked like it was a tough project because they tried to fit in two relatively large stores and had to make use of different elevations to do it. In that respect, the capers/duthie building is more typical for the retail storefronts. So the IGA site's retail will probably depend on what type of tenants they want to attract and whether they have any lined up at the start of the project. If not, then I think you'd probably see typical retail, smaller storefronts, rather than mid or larger format.

[radacal]

^^ the VCC photo above is a few months out of date - the project has been topped off a couple of months ago and exterior cladding is well underway

[SFUVancouver]

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/3830/vccexpansionmarch272008ht9.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken March 27th, 2008.

[Bert]

RFP has been issued for the Childrens hospital update. Here are some of the highlights.

Project Overview
For more than 50 years, the children and women of British Columbia have been receiving specialized care through the programs and services of BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre. These organizations are collectively referred to
as Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia (C&W). C&W, as an agency of the PHSA, delivers a comprehensive range of specialized tertiary and quaternary patient care services, and serves as a centre of excellence for education and research. To support the continued vision of C&W as a provincial, national and international campus of excellence, redevelopment of the Oak Street campus is required. This Project is the PHSA’s top
priority in its 10-year capital plan. Subject to government approvals, it is proposed that the Project will consist of:
• Decant and demolition of L and A North Wings of Shaughnessy Hospital;
• Design and construction of a new 47,000 square metre (505,000 square foot) Acute Care Centre (4 - 5 stories);
• Design and construction of a new 8,300 square metre (90,000 square foot) Child Development and Rehabilitation Outpatient facility on the Oak Street campus; and
• Funding for the Project, with an estimated cost of $500 million, will come from the Province and fundraising by the BC Children’s Foundation. A separate RFP is being issued for Architectural and Engineering Design services related to the decant and demolition of L and A North Wings of Shaughnessy Hospital which is referred to as Component One of the Children and Women’s Redevelopment Project.
Quite a decent budget there. It'll be interesting to see the result.

[squeezied]

some more pictures of the grand on oak. the second pic definitely makes it look more inviting.

http://www.thegrandonoak.ca/_ecamp/render.jpg
http://www.thegrandonoak.ca/_ecamp/render_courtyard_lrg.jpg

here are the floor plans: http://www.thegrandonoak.ca/_ecamp/preliminary-floorplans.pdf

[mr.x]

sort of looks like number four, Privet Drive.

[deasine]

RFP has been issued for the Childrens hospital update. Here are some of the highlights.

Project Overview
For more than 50 years, the children and women of British Columbia have

[...]

Hospital which is referred to as Component One of the Children and Women’s Redevelopment Project.

Thank you for that!