[Burnaby] Concord Brentwood | U/C and Proposed

[GilmoreStation]

Burnaby's Yaletown in the making...









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Source: www.concordbrentwood.com

[Alex Mackinnon]

Dear god, someone find Concord an architect. That's appallingly boring.

Also, Lougheed Parkway? Come on...

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon

Dear god, someone find Concord an architect. That's appallingly boring.

Also, Lougheed Parkway? Come on...

Why do they keep referencing Yaletown for these suburban developments. Yaletown was built around a historical industrial neighborhood that is the driving force of it's popularity. There's not a single aspect of these developments that maintains any sort of historical context to the areas past.

The Yaletown BIA should copyright the name so they can get royalties from all these other developments that overuse the concept of 'Yaletown living'. Seriously.

[spiritofevil99]

Well Concord was the developer that BUILT Yaletown so they can lay claim to it I guess.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

Why do they keep referencing Yaletown for these suburban developments. Yaletown was built around a historical industrial neighborhood that is the driving force of it's popularity. There's not a single aspect of these developments that maintains any sort of historical context to the areas past.

Not to mention False Creek, a natural part of the area that is very important to its popularity.

I'm not sure what is more annoying though. Either it's "The Yaletown of Burnaby", or they make up some fake name for a community out of thin air that tries to sound cool. Langley seems to suffer from the latter issue.

[GeeCee]

That site plan is pretty funny. Here's my version of it:



It's not quite to scale but close enough. Presumably the warehouses and etc until the southern treeline would become the 'district park'.

[mgbcca]

Yikes gonna be a busy area, all this plus I believe at least 5 more towers across the street to the west planned (so far).

[EddieVH]

Floorplans:

[EddieVH]

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by GilmoreStation

Not looking good. It seems they're going for towers in a park concept instead of urban streetwall. Very disappointing.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by EddieVH

The location of the bathroom in this floorplan really sucks. You have to go through the living and dining areas and past the kitchen to the to the shower from your bedroom and vice versa.

[officedweller]

Burnaby's got the wrap around balcony down pat!

Strange how there are none (among new towers) in Vancouver.

The Lougheed-fronting tower on stilts were described in this article:

http://www.straight.com/news/658336/...coming-burnaby

Originally Posted by Jebby

The location of the bathroom in this floorplan really sucks. You have to go through the living and dining areas and past the kitchen to the to the shower from your bedroom and vice versa.

There's also practically no storage space.

Originally Posted by spiritofevil99

Well Concord was the developer that BUILT Yaletown so they can lay claim to it I guess.

No they didn't.

"Yaletown" is the historic warehouse district (with historic zoning) bounded by Homer, Nelson, Drake and the alley west of Pacific Blvd.

The Concord lands (former Expo site) are NOT Yaletown.
Downtown South is also not Yaletown (though real estate agents used to call it "New Yaletown".

[spiritofevil99]

I didn't meant the historical nature of Yaletown but what Yaletown is today. Yuppie condo neighborhood including David Lam Park, Roundhouse Community Centre etc. I think people consider the corridor along Pacific Blvd. Yaletown these days along with those warehouses where Blue Water Cafe is located.

Anyways, I don't care that much so yeah whatever.

Originally Posted by officedweller

There's also practically no storage space.




No they didn't.

"Yaletown" is the historic warehouse district (with historic zoning) bounded by Homer, Nelson, Drake and the alley west of Pacific Blvd.

The Concord lands (former Expo site) are NOT Yaletown.
Downtown South is also not Yaletown (though real estate agents used to call it "New Yaletown".

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Jebby

The location of the bathroom in this floorplan really sucks. You have to go through the living and dining areas and past the kitchen to the to the shower from your bedroom and vice versa.

Highlighting the giant balconies in the overall floor space is pretty cheezy too.

[Large Cat]

This development looks a little too "towers in the park"ish for me, similar to the initial proposals for NE False Creek after the viaducts. If they really want to make Brentwood into a downtown type area, there shouldn't be this much open space between buildings. There don't need to be two massive parks in such close proximity creating big walking distances between retail, residential, etc.

[officedweller]

Dawson is supposed to the the retail High Street - so that's the street that should have retail.
Based on the aerial pic, there look to already be some "lowrises in the park" immediately west of the Concord site on Dawson.

Lougheed can't rally be tamed and the project with the massive retaining wall on the north side of Lougheed has already set the tone (landscaping!) for the area.

I tend to think that the "commercial core" of Brentwood will be west of Alpha Ave
- i.e. Brentwood Town Centre (mall) to Gilmore Station

It's a Regional Town Centre, which probably isn't intended to be as dense as a "downtown".

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Highlighting the giant balconies in the overall floor space is pretty cheezy too.

That seems to be the new normal in developments these days. Since the units are pathetically small, they increase the perceived floor space by including the balcony area.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Burnaby's got the wrap around balcony down pat! Strange how there are none (among new towers) in Vancouver.

You have recently been commenting this to few of my questions, but perhaps LEED requirements are also the reason there? I recall there having been a thread about how much heat balconies emitted (or absorbed, can't remember)... Just a guess.

Originally Posted by Jebby

Not looking good. It seems they're going for towers in a park concept instead of urban streetwall. Very disappointing.

Yeah, they should build podiums and townhouses everywhere between towers. Then there would also be more credibility to claims around Yaletown, as Yaletown is characterized by those.

[scryer]

I agree with the "towers in a park" look mentioned before.

I also don't see how this development will interact with the street as successfully as the rest of the developments in Metro Vancouver does.

Generally I like the glass tower-look that Metro Vancouver goes for BUT these kind of look like glass commie-blocks. They wasted this opportunity and they could have been more creative as Burnaby does deserve an ICONIC tower.

[Klazu]

I doubt those are final looks, at least for all of the towers. Remember that the build-out time for this is 10+ years and trends change. Some of the towers will end up similar, others now.