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Ambitious plans for Vancouver's waterfront

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Construction is poised to start this year on the long-planned $1.5 billion Waterfront Vancouver project that is expected to transform the city’s skyline downriver from the Interstate 5 Bridge.

Deemed similar to Portland’s South Waterfront development, Vancouver’s ambitious master plan calls for more than 1 million square feet of Class A office space, a luxury boutique hotel, restaurants and 3,300 units of residential housing, including both condos and apartments. Buildout likely will continue over the next 10 years....More
I am gonna bet they will be wishing they had light rail running to Vancouver when they try to sell people on this urban living that will overlook the traffic they will have to sit in to get to work if they work in Portland.
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Port of Vancouver’s Terminal 1 will get a Marriott AC Hotel

A boutique hotel operated by the huge Marriott chain is coming to the Port of Vancouver’s Terminal 1 and will be a cornerstone of the port’s redevelopment of its prime waterfront property, the port disclosed Tuesday.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/m...iott-ac-hotel/
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Waterfront development reveals plans for a $40M hotel



First, there was news that a well-known non-profit would be the first major office tenant.

Then came word of a first culinary tenant, followed by the announcement that work had begun on a 7-acre waterfront park.

Now, Columbia Waterfront LLC, the entity overseeing the $1.5 billion development of 32 acres along the Columbia River waterfront in Vancouver, reveals that a $40 million boutique hotel will rise up on Block 4 of the development by 2018.

Columbia Waterfront and local developer Kirkland Development announced today that construction of the Hotel Indigo, a boutique concept planned with InterContinental Hotels Group, is set to begin in spring 2017. The 120-room, $40 million hotel will also include a residential component of apartments or condominiums, as well as 20,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
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I am gonna bet they will be wishing they had light rail running to Vancouver when they try to sell people on this urban living that will overlook the traffic they will have to sit in to get to work if they work in Portland.
Now that the Waterfront is starting to acquire tenants, maybe increased development of this spot will be the impetus that finally brings MAX across the Columbia.

At the same time, Clark Co. could also follow Washington Co's lead and further develop its own employment base so fewer of its residents would need to commute outside of the county for work.
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Now that the Waterfront is starting to acquire tenants, maybe increased development of this spot will be the impetus that finally brings MAX across the Columbia.

At the same time, Clark Co. could also follow Washington Co's lead and further develop its own employment base so fewer of its residents would need to commute outside of the county for work.
That is possible too, it would make for a huge improvement in the Couve, it would also potentially help their downtown. Although mentioning Washington County, that whole westside should already have 4-5 light rail lines running through it rather than two running on the same line.
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When it comes to commercial real estate, Vancouver is emerging from Portland’s shadow
Lana Baldock and Cole Farris weigh in on how the Rose City's neighbor to the north has become a major CRE player
Aug 2, 2016, 6:06am PDT
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Lana Baldock and Cole Farris

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/...193&j=75297772
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Although Portland’s downtown and close-in eastside office submarkets have been receiving a lot of attention lately, the Vancouver office market is performing well and is on the verge of breaking out of Portland’s shadow.

Leading the way is Gramor Development’s 32-acre master-planned $1.5 billion public/private partnership known as The Waterfront. The project will deliver approximately 5 million square feet in the coming years, including 1.25 million square feet of creative office space, 250,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, and 3,300 housing units along the Columbia River, just northwest of the Interstate Bridge.

Construction is now underway on Grant Street Pier, a cable stay pier that extends out over the Columbia River. It broke ground this month as part of the half-mile long riverfront experience. Twiggs Bistro & Martini Bar and WildFin American Grill have committed as the first two restaurants and Hotel Indigo and M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust will be notable additions.

With the first 70,000-square-foot Class A office forecast to break ground shortly, there will undoubtedly be more exciting announcements soon. The rise of the waterfront development is no coincidence as Vancouver’s office market fundamentals have been steadily improving year-over-year.

Gramor isn’t the only developer taking notice of Vancouver’s office market emergence. Killian Pacific is behind The Hudson, downtown Vancouver’s first new office development in years. The 48,000-square-foot, three-story building was delivered first quarter of this year with well over half of the building pre-leased. The building was designed to attract “creative” tenants. Banfield Pet Hospital is also making a significant investment in east Vancouver with a 17.5 acre, $23.3 million corporate campus under construction. It is scheduled to deliver the third quarter of 2016 and the campus is forecast to result in 600-plus jobs moving from Portland to Vancouver...(continues)
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Q&A: Waterfront hotel developer reveals new details

Block 4 of Vancouver’s waterfront development will feature a 10-story tall condominium tower
Oct 14, 2016



When Kirkland Development first announced that it was purchasing Block 4 of Vancouver’s new waterfront project from Columbia Waterfront LLC, the Vancouver-based developer revealed plans to bring a boutique hotel (Hotel Indigo) and a compliment of retail and residential living spaces to the water’s edge.
Four months have passed since that initial announcement, and we’re learning new details about how the project has evolved.
Perhaps the most noticeable change is a 10-story blue-tinted glass condominium tower, as illustrated in the accompanying renderings. The residential component of the block was previously slated to be five stories of apartments on top of ground-floor retail.
We sat down with Dean Kirkland, chairman of Kirkland Development, to learn more about where the project sits today.


Q: How has this project evolved since it was initially announced?
Kirkland: Originally, the block was going to include apartments, but we decided to go with the condo tower and we took advantage of some of the height available… We wanted to turn the tower into more of a glass, upscale look to match Gramor Development’s building next door, which will be an office building.
The tower will be nine floors over one floor of retail space for a total of 10 stories, with subterranean parking underground. It will have its own entrance on the very west end for residents as well as guests, and you’ll be able to enter through the common lobby off Columbia Way. There are 36 units.
The building (approx. 140 feet tall) has mirrored glass and a silver metal panel on it.
The hotel remains five stories over one story of retail space. It’s a metal panel building – some of it’s a blue metal on the east end, some is a silver metal and then there’s some wood on the retail level on both sides of the building. There’s about 17,000 square feet of retail space – 7,000 of that will be used for a restaurant/bar.
It’s a gorgeous building … this is project we are really proud to be a part of.
Q: What about the design of the hotel rooms themselves?
Kirkland: We asked ourselves, what do millennials like? What do you do when you walk into a hotel room? Your bathroom, how does it feel? How does the shower feel? Does your room have a great bed and a great television? I don’t think desks and heavy furniture are the most important things to the new generation.
Q: You’ve developed a number of different hotel brands. What made you choose the Indigo brand for this project?
Kirkland: Every one of them is different and that’s what attracted me to that brand.
There are about 60 Hotel Indigos now across the United States. The newest one just opened in Manhattan and is doing amazingly well. Each one of them creates a story based on the neighborhood that they’re in, so we’ll work hand in hand with the staff at IHG (also known as InterContinental Hotels Group – owners of the Hotel Indigo brand) to do our research. I know a little bit about Vancouver since I grew up here, but we’ll learn more. We’ll make sure it has its own theme that is portrayed to the public when they come here.
As a preferred developer for IHG, we have the ability to set ourselves apart and not just be a cookie-cutter hotel like some of the other brands. We want this to be unique.
Q: What more can you tell me about the ground-floor retail component of the block?
Kirkland: The restaurant and bar will be run as part of the hotel. That leaves us with about 10,000 to 11,000 square feet of retail/commercial space. We envision that being anything from a high-end spa to a high-end jeweler, a small eatery or café, coffee shop – things like that. I think those will fill up.
I think businesses that lease there will benefit highly from the fact that they’ll be part of the buzz and the water and the park out in front of us; all the things the city is doing with the pier, everyone will end up a big winner.
Q: What style of restaurant are you planning to have?
Kirkland: I think it will be traditional American. The restaurants that are down on the water – Beaches, Joe’s Crab Shack – they’ve done well, so we’ll keep it traditional. You want to have a restaurant that when you walk in, the smell is great and the light is great, and you’ll be able to take in the view of the water if you choose to.
Q: What’s the current timeline for the project?
Kirkland: We’re hoping to kick it off in the fall of next year. It will take that long to get it there, and we’re on a pace to do that. We’ve done a lot of work – that’s everything from dealing with other waterfront project developers, the city, the [hotel] franchise (IHG), dealing with capital partners, financing, all those things. The project should be completed by December 2018.
Q: Does that timing benefit you because some of the amenities down there will have already been established?
Kirkland: I think so. I think it’s kind of paralleling [the rest of the waterfront projects]; no one is more important than the other. We all have to do right by each other – that’s the art. It’s been a bit of a dance for all of us. There are things that Kirkland Development has to do, there are things that Gramor Development has to do, etcetera. We all have to do our part to get this thing to the end zone.
You always have a responsibility to yourself first and foremost – to your partners and your bankers. But with this project, there’s a lot more cohesiveness working with other partners and that takes time… It’s been good. I’m really pleased with how we’ve worked hand in hand.
Q: What do you think your project – and the waterfront development as a whole – means for the future of Vancouver?
Kirkland: City skylines can be done right where they are very attractive to the eye. I think it’s of huge monument that it’s done correctly. I think having these buildings there will absolutely shape that waterfront, and I think it will change the way people look at Vancouver – not just guests and residents, but businesses too. There’s just not a lot of waterfront property out there.
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How Banfield Pet Hospital earned its environmental accolades (Photos)



Banfield Pet Hospital says its new corporate headquarters in Vancouver, Washington, has won LEED Platinum certification for green features.

The 206,000-square-foot headquarters opened in June on 17.5 acres in Vancouver's Columbia Tech Center. The office has about 800 employees and more than 220 dogs that come to work.

Banfield Pet Hospital says green features cut energy use by 44 percent. The property has a geothermal energy exchange to heat and cool the office, solar-water heating to cut energy costs and LED lighting that minimizes power draw.
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Vancouver Waterfront development: See the first phase take shape

It's finally starting to take shape. I'm really excited about its potential, and what it could mean for the city and region.

http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-coun...t_phase_1.html







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It looks nice, now it needs to incorporate the MAX into the design.
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Exactly ^^ And Portland needs to incorporate more waterfront restaurants like this into its city center / eastside. Amazing how few there are.
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Exactly ^^ And Portland needs to incorporate more waterfront restaurants like this into its city center / eastside. Amazing how few there are.
Sort of, along Tom McCall waterfront, the city isn't going to build any buildings along that part which leaves along the west side of Naito. Not really the most ideal stretch of road for restaurants. There is however restaurants by the river on the south end of downtown, with a possibility for them in South Waterfront.

The eastside is a different beast since much of that land is designated for industrial or sits under the freeway. Portland in general doesn't have the best layout for restaurants along the river, but Vancouver is in a much different position and has a much larger river to take advantage of with things like this.
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Exactly ^^ And Portland needs to incorporate more waterfront restaurants like this into its city center / eastside. Amazing how few there are.
We do have Riverplace but restaurants seem to struggle there. Sowa, Centennial Mills and the OMSI area are places this could be pulled off.
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Gramor secures $14.8M loan for Waterfront Vancouver

Financing from Banner Bank will facilitate construction of new Grant Street Pier restaurant buildings
Oct 6, 2017


If you start building, the loans will come.
At least that’s how Gramor Development’s new $14.8-million loan for the Vancouver Waterfront Development came about. Barry Cain, Gramor’s president and owner, said his company actually started the project without closing on the loan with Banner Bank, because he was so confident the project would go forward.
“We were building these restaurant buildings a ways before we closed on the loans,” Cain said. “But I felt comfortable that we’d get it settled out. Until you build buildings, you don’t really have a project.”
Gramor and Banner Bank announced in mid-September that the parties had closed on the loan, which will support construction of the new Grant Street Pier restaurant buildings, located across Block 9 and Block 12 at the waterfront.
The 40,000-square-foot, two-building complex will house six marquee restaurants, including Wildfin American Grill, Ghost Runners Brewery, and Twig’s Bistro and Martini Bar, all of which have already confirmed plans to occupy the site.
The first restaurants and stores are set to open by July 30, 2018, with the rest of Phase 1 of the waterfront development due for completion on Sept. 30 next year, Cain said.
The overall cost of Phase 1 of the $1.5-billion project will be about $250 million. It includes the development of the $35-million waterfront park and the 90-foot-long cable-stay Grant Street Pier, which will be suspended above the water.
“We’ve got a lot of things under construction,” Cain said. “Hopefully we’ll also get the (Hotel Indigo) construction going in the next three to six months. Then we’ll have six buildings under construction on the waterfront.”
Gramor recently closed the sale of Block 4, where the Hotel Indigo is set to go, to Kirkland Development. That company plans to develop the 32,339-square-foot block for the hotel, condos, restaurants and retail spots.
The eight-story hotel, part of InterContinental Hotels Group, will have 138 rooms and a skybar on the top floor.
Area businesses are also excited about the Waterfront Development drawing more people to downtown. Sunny Parsons, owner of Heathen Brewing and the company’s Feral Public House at 1109 Washington St., said he’s been making patio improvements to his site in anticipation of the growing traffic.
“I think the development is going to create a kind of Pearl District effect (like the one seen in Portland),” Parsons said. “We’ll have people here that we aren’t used to seeing in Vancouver. There will be high-tech business people, upscale visitors. The boardwalk is going to be beautiful. It’s going to be very classy down there.”
As the waterfront becomes more upscale, downtown businesses will also likely have to look at cosmetic improvements to draw more traffic. But overall Parsons thinks that’s going to be a good thing for Vancouver.
“I think the rising tide will raise all ships,” Parsons said. “I think this will be a good deal for everybody, except maybe for those trying to find parking. But overall I think it will be amazing.”
Banner Bank was attracted to Gramor’s work on the project because it sees the potential for the development to become a thriving local landmark, said Damian Uecker, vice president and commercial real estate relationship manager for Banner Bank.
“In every community, a handful of unique properties become landmarks,” Uecker said. “We believe The Waterfront Vancouver project is bound to hold that moniker in Vancouver. We applaud Gramor’s tremendous commitment to this transformational project and are pleased to have an opportunity to be a part of it.”
Cain said the new loan should also help draw more lenders to the project, both for Gramor and other partners.
Finding the first bank is always the hardest, he said.
“It’s a special situation,” Cain said. “You have to have lenders willing to look outside of the box, that try to understand what you’re doing and to believe in what you’re doing. Banner Bank was really interested in doing this loan, and we’re grateful to them. It will make it easier to get more banks to sign on in the future.”
Gramor is currently working on blocks 9, 12 and 6 in the project.
Block 9 is 15,000 square feet and can house two restaurants, one of which will be Wildfin American Grill, the Seattle seafood chain. That restaurant will take up about half of the space on Block 9.
Block 12 is more than 28,000 square feet and can house four restaurants, including Ghost Runners Brewery and Twig’s Bistro and Martini Bar, which have both confirmed their spots. Block 6 will include office and retail space and has one confirmed restaurant tenant, MidiCi The Neapolitan Pizza Company.
Gramor has worked with Banner Bank on projects in the past, and Cain said the bank has been a great business partner.
“Once we get this going, the whole of downtown Vancouver will be bustling,” Cain said. “Once these buildings finish and do well, more will come. And with this loan, we’re officially underway.”
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Vancouver waterfront to get wooden high-rise

Another new high-rise is heading to The Waterfront Vancouver, but it goes a little against the grain.

Called Timberhouse, the project is a 12-story apartment with offices and ground-level retail, according to filings with the city of Vancouver this week.

Timberhouse is to include 251 apartments with 12,000 square feet of retail. It will be built at Block 3 of the waterfront development, on the west side of Esther Street down the street from Vancouver City Hall.
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That's a great start! Good to see Vancouver coming to life.
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That is looking great, if only it was connected by some sort of system to move people around without them having to use a motor vehicle and sit in traffic.
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