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Originally Posted by Changing City
The previous Council approved the rezoning, and the Development Permit Board approved the detailed design in September. It seemed to make no difference to the developer that they were originally constructing an office building with only one floor of retail, and now there's a second floor grocery store and the residential tower. The Abcellera building in Mount Pleasant were forced to pause while the DP for the larger rezoned building was being processed, but this one seems to have been able to keep going.
It's going to really show up from the north side of False Creek. It's already visible, and they've only just started on the tower.
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Maybe it might have something to do with the fact that this one will be incorporating the Broadway-Arbutus Skytrain line extension's South Granville station, and any delays to the overall project would seriously impact the timeline of that particular part of the development(?)
If I recall correctly, the original DP application (Which did not include the residential tower portion or any tower portion and was significantly different) accounted for (and applied for) the possibility of a future tower extension to the project, which was accepted, and now I imagine this is kind of like fast-tracking that phase and bringing the tower part forward in the schedule.
You'd have to imagine any delays or project pauses could potentially impact the opening of the line, which has already been pushed back from a 2025 to a 2026 opening.
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