[Burnaby] Metrotower III | 109m | 25fl | U/C - Page 13

LeftCoaster · #**241** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 1:34 PM**

Thanks for the update! Some decent progress finally.

Chadillaccc · #**242** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by vansky

considering the whole metro is only 2.5 millionish, i still think it can go a little bold with a few 200s, hahaha, that'd be american.

How is that American? What American suburban city has a tower over 200 meters tall? I'm pretty sure Absolute World in Mississauga is the tallest suburban skyscraper in the America's at 178 meters.

marcus_a_j · #**243** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 6:18 PM**

^ Williams Tower in Houston is 274 m./900 ft. It's not quite "suburban", but still about 10km outside of the downtown core.

s211 · #**244** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 7:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by marcus_a_j

^ Williams Tower in Houston is 274 m./900 ft. It's not quite "suburban", but still about 10km outside of the downtown core.

Small world. I was going to pipe up with "that tower near the Houston Galleria" also!

LeftCoaster · #**245** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 7:23 PM**

Well it is one of the few examples.

Technically it's not suburban as it's still in Houston proper, but it's about as far from DT Houston as Metrotown is from DT Vancouver.

Metro-One · #**246** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 7:35 PM**

Again, considering our metro population, how large our downtwon skyline is, I think our suburbs are pretty amazing, especially considering we don'y just have 1 or 2 suburban skylines, but mane (Richmond, North Van, West Van, Metrotown, Brentwood, New Westminster, Surrey, Coquitlam, Lougheed Town Centre, Edmonds, even areas like Joyce.)

Spoolmak · #**247** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 9:06 PM**

Whats even more impressive, is that Burnaby, a suburban city of 220,000 has multiple skylines.

Chadillaccc · #**248** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 9:59 PM**

Yeah exactly, 4 (some may consider 5) distinctive, relatively large skylines!

The_Henry_Man · #**249** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 11:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Spoolmak

Whats even more impressive, is that Burnaby, a suburban city of 220,000 has multiple skylines.

The most striking view is from Brentwood Town Centre Skytrain station. I think it's much more prominent than most of US metro areas of 500,000 (ex- Fargo, ND or Anchorage, AK).

Metro-One · #**250** Posted: **Jul 11, 2012, 11:46 PM**

Hell, it is more prominent than many us metros over 1 million.

Klazu · #**251** Posted: **Jul 12, 2012, 2:01 AM**

In the future Metro-Vancouver will be one super-dense Tokyo-like megalopolis with a dozen urban cores. Already today I love how the cityscape looks like from the top of the North Shore Mountains with several clusters rising around the urban area.

Continuum should have some shots outside the Vancouver Downtown to give us a peak into the future...

vansky · #**252** Posted: **Jul 12, 2012, 2:16 AM**

in 10 yrs, well, considering there iwll around 500k more ppl coming into the area, and land's gone out pretty much, unless they cultivate richmond's farm land, we'd see all condos, that will be pretty mad. i'd say another 300 more highrises? how would u distribute that, 100 each in vancouver, richmond, burnaby?

30 every yr, that is like 2 towers going up every month, or maybe i'm mad

BodomReaper · #**253** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 5:19 AM**

From SkyTrain. I've never seen a construction project with so much scaffolding!

officedweller · #**254** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 8:50 PM**

Be glad it does - that means there'll be a nice high ceiling in the lobby.

queetz@home · #**255** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 9:56 PM**

So...any tenants? I'm just curious, that's all....

Chadillaccc · #**256** Posted: **Jul 26, 2012, 4:45 AM**

Probably almost done the 4th floor by now eh?

It's almost nice that the project was dormant for so long, cause now it feels like it's going super fast since they didn't have to do parking or foundation.