HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada > Alberta & British Columbia > Vancouver > Metro Vancouver & the Fraser Valley


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #4581  
Old Posted Dec 5, 2018, 12:17 PM
vanman's Avatar
vanman vanman is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver BC
Posts: 6,341
New rendering of Highpoint in Burquitlam.


https://highpointbyledmac.com/?utm_s...SAAEgLWCfD_BwE
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4582  
Old Posted Dec 6, 2018, 7:14 AM
SpongeG's Avatar
SpongeG SpongeG is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Coquitlam
Posts: 39,104
The Safeway at Austin Heights

IMG_20181205_131026-PANO by snub_you, on Flickr
__________________
belowitall

Last edited by SpongeG; Dec 7, 2018 at 9:50 AM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4583  
Old Posted Dec 7, 2018, 12:33 AM
officedweller officedweller is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 38,229
Quote:
Originally Posted by bc2mb View Post
Big redevelopment of Royal Towers site in New Westminster...

https://urbanyvr.com/royal-towers-re...ew-westminster
Here's the location - closer to Columbia than I thought.


https://twitter.com/urbanYVR
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4584  
Old Posted Dec 7, 2018, 12:42 AM
djmk's Avatar
djmk djmk is offline
victory in near
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: North Vancouver
Posts: 1,569
The Barfly at the Royal Towers.... yikes
__________________
i have no idea what's going on
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4585  
Old Posted Dec 7, 2018, 2:16 AM
Klazu's Avatar
Klazu Klazu is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Above Metro Vancouver clouds
Posts: 10,182
Quote:
Originally Posted by vanman View Post
New rendering of Highpoint in Burquitlam.


https://highpointbyledmac.com/?utm_s...SAAEgLWCfD_BwE
I am counting a lot of floors. New tallest for the area?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4586  
Old Posted Dec 7, 2018, 7:30 AM
SpongeG's Avatar
SpongeG SpongeG is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Coquitlam
Posts: 39,104
it's 50 storeys. There is a 52 storey going up in Burquitlam park.
__________________
belowitall
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4587  
Old Posted Dec 16, 2018, 1:24 AM
invisibleairwaves's Avatar
invisibleairwaves invisibleairwaves is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 638
Some info about the Coquitlam Centre redevelopment here: http://www.coquitlamcentreunlimited....l-master-plan/

Stopped by the "engagement centre" at the mall yesterday- there's a lot more info there about what Phase 1 (the Sears and the parking lots around Lincoln Station) will look like. Towers between 42 and 60 storeys, a really fine street grid, and commercial at ground level almost everywhere. Looks great, and they're shooting for a 2020 start so we should start getting a lot more details and renderings as it moves through council in 2019.
__________________
Reticulating Splines
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4588  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2018, 3:25 AM
vanman's Avatar
vanman vanman is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver BC
Posts: 6,341
^Thanks for the info.

A buddy of mine sent me this today.



First phase of the Concert Properties Burquitlam Plaza redevelopment?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4589  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2018, 3:42 AM
SpongeG's Avatar
SpongeG SpongeG is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Coquitlam
Posts: 39,104
I think its separate isn't it?

This one ties into the one that will put towers on Cottonwood.




Quote:
• Project 1 — Burquitlam Park (579 Smith Ave.). The plan would see Concert Properties rezone Burquitlam Park, the subject of a recent land swap with the city, transforming it from a grass playing field and baseball park, to a multi-use development with a 50-storey condominium tower, the city’s tallest, with approximately 435 units and another 30-storey purpose-built rental tower with approximately 275 units.

In between the two towers will be a two- to three-storey YMCA recreation facility with a pool, gym, multi-purpose space and more. The cost hasn’t been finalized but $25 million in community amenity contributions from developers will be available for the project, with the city paying 50% and the YMCA covering the rest, plus operating costs.

As well, there will be a community policing station and a 50-stall park-and-ride facility, plus about 1.5 acres of community park in the area, which is close to Burquitlam Station and Bosa’s Uptown development.

• Project 2 — Whitgift Gardens (530 and 550 Cottonwood Ave). This area is currently zoned for three-storey apartments with approximately 200 units still being rented and a relocation plan being worked out for residents. The developer seeks a rezoning to construct six towers — two 37-storey rental towers, with approximately 654 units, four market condominium towers at 24, 25, 43 and 48-storeys, with approximately 1,187 units plus another approximately 132 market rental units for seniors.
https://www.tricitynews.com/real-est...nce-1.23186561
__________________
belowitall
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4590  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2018, 4:32 AM
Metro-One's Avatar
Metro-One Metro-One is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Japan
Posts: 16,806
567 Como is 162 metres.

Highpoint is 161 metres.

If 579 Smith Ave is indeed Coquitlam’s new tallest it will be over 162 metres.

You guys can refer (and better yet contribute info) to my 150 metre + thread.
__________________
Bridging the Gap
Check out my Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/306346...h/29495547810/ and Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0...lhxXFxuAey_q6Q
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4591  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2018, 7:36 AM
vanman's Avatar
vanman vanman is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver BC
Posts: 6,341
Quote:
Originally Posted by SpongeG View Post
I think its separate isn't it?

This one ties into the one that will put towers on Cottonwood.






https://www.tricitynews.com/real-est...nce-1.23186561
You're right.

The Burquitlam Plaza site is seperate from the two Concert Properties sites. It's getting hard to keep track of all that's going on in that area.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4592  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2018, 6:05 PM
Metro-One's Avatar
Metro-One Metro-One is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Japan
Posts: 16,806
So looking at the February diagrams for 579 Smith Ave (Burquitlam Park) it is 154.6 metres tall.

The 30 story rental tower is 99.4 meters tall.

But now they say 52 floors, so maybe the height has changed?

That also officially makes 3 towers over 150 meters in the Burquitlam skyline...

Never thought to see such a concentration of height here.

Metro Van seems to pick odd spots to both allow and not allow tall towers.
__________________
Bridging the Gap
Check out my Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/306346...h/29495547810/ and Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0...lhxXFxuAey_q6Q
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4593  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2018, 7:25 PM
misher's Avatar
misher misher is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Jul 2018
Posts: 4,537
Quote:
Originally Posted by Metro-One View Post
So looking at the February diagrams for 579 Smith Ave (Burquitlam Park) it is 154.6 metres tall.

The 30 story rental tower is 99.4 meters tall.

But now they say 52 floors, so maybe the height has changed?

That also officially makes 3 towers over 150 meters in the Burquitlam skyline...

Never thought to see such a concentration of height here.

Metro Van seems to pick odd spots to both allow and not allow tall towers.
Metro Van doesn't make the choice or there would be more downtown and in Vancouver.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4594  
Old Posted Dec 29, 2018, 2:17 AM
Metro-One's Avatar
Metro-One Metro-One is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Japan
Posts: 16,806
Quote:
Originally Posted by misher View Post
Metro Van doesn't make the choice or there would be more downtown and in Vancouver.
I am well aware that Metro Van as a single entity doesn't make any choices regarding tower placements.

Think you missed the point of what I was saying.

Sometimes I feel like I am talking to algorithms on here that take words / terms too literally.

It is a short hand to listing every municipal name and the details of their zoning / height restriction policies.

The intended meaning is that having such towers in Burquitlam while much of the downtown peninsula is capped below 150 metres is very odd when look at the region as a whole.
__________________
Bridging the Gap
Check out my Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/306346...h/29495547810/ and Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0...lhxXFxuAey_q6Q
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4595  
Old Posted Dec 29, 2018, 8:06 AM
SpongeG's Avatar
SpongeG SpongeG is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Coquitlam
Posts: 39,104
the area will be a nice view when coming westbound over the Port Mann into the city.
__________________
belowitall
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4596  
Old Posted Dec 30, 2018, 7:33 AM
GMD GMD is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 246
Quote:
Originally Posted by Metro-One View Post
The intended meaning is that having such towers in Burquitlam while much of the downtown peninsula is capped below 150 metres is very odd when look at the region as a whole.
Yes, it does seem fairly random at first glance. It seems that the non-originally city municipalities (e.g. Coquitlam, not Port Moody/Port Coquitlam, Burnaby not Vancouver, Richmond and Surrey, not Ladner, White Rock) didn't have much of an existing downtown to build around, so they've gone into a pattern of allowing high towers to be built in their designated downtown areas without facing much (or at least as much) opposition because there wasn't the same entrenched existing non-high rise development to compete with and what there was in the way of existing development is so grim (e.g. in Burquitlam) that it is hard to imagine anyone devoting much effort to preserving it.

Burquitlam is an interesting case, in that such an enormous number of towers, including quite tall ones have been approved and moved into construction before more than a few shorter ones were completed. By the time anyone really appreciates the scale of what is coming, it will be too late to stop much of it (not that I want to stop it, but I'm thinking of the typical pattern of local opposition).
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4597  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 8:55 AM
SpongeG's Avatar
SpongeG SpongeG is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Coquitlam
Posts: 39,104
They don't have a hotel operator yet so who knows when it will start but it can start as it has been approved

Revised plan for hotel at Coquitlam's Hard Rock Casino approved

Although it's been more than seven years after first proposed, construction start not determined
Grant Granger / Tri-City News
NOVEMBER 30, 2018




Artist rendering of the proposed Hard Rock Casino Hotel which received a development permit from Coquitlam council this week.
Photograph By CITY OF COQUITLAM REPORT


Quote:
In 2011, GCGC’s first proposal was for an 11-storey tower with 181 rooms. Those plans were adjusted a year later to 10 storeys and 176 rooms.

Although the latest plans call for the hotel tower to be two storeys higher, its footprint won’t be as big with only 141 rooms and is 52,200 sq. ft. smaller overall.

Meeting space has been cut by more than half with a reduction of 3,810 sq. ft. to 3,200 sq. ft. A café, which was in the original proposal, has been eliminated.
https://www.vancourier.com/real-esta...ved-1.23515577
__________________
belowitall
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4598  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 3:18 PM
osirisboy's Avatar
osirisboy osirisboy is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Vancouver BC
Posts: 6,041
It's so funny how basically all the casinos are in industrial areas. So out of place
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4599  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 9:29 PM
officedweller officedweller is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 38,229
The NIMBY force is strong....
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4600  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2019, 10:21 AM
SpongeG's Avatar
SpongeG SpongeG is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Coquitlam
Posts: 39,104
A development site available on North Road, looks like it could have two towers on the site. I would like to see some retail along their lougheed frontage.

Video Link
__________________
belowitall
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada > Alberta & British Columbia > Vancouver > Metro Vancouver & the Fraser Valley
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 10:27 AM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.