Suburban Updates

[SpongeG]

yea, will be cool to ride the skytrain through

[Metro-One]

156.7 and 143.9 metres.

Guessing this will be the first skyscraper in downtown Coquitlam? (Over 150).

The Coquitlam diagram needs some serious TLC.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by misher

Metro Van doesn't make the choice or there would be more downtown and in Vancouver.

There is a Metro Vancouver Board of Directors. So there does appear to be collaboration with regard to development on a metro wide scale.

Metro Vancouver is a federation of 21 municipalities, one Electoral Area and one Treaty First Nation that collaboratively plans for and delivers regional-scale services. Its core services are drinking water, wastewater treatment and solid waste management. Metro Vancouver also regulates air quality, plans for urban growth, manages a regional parks system and provides affordable housing. The regional district is governed by a Board of Directors of elected officials from each local authority.

Here's a map from Metro Vancouver..

http://www.metrovancouver.org/servic...entres-Map.jpg

[red-paladin]

Metro Vancouver actually wants to enhance the hub city centres with more office, and not to concentrate it all in the Metro core.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by red-paladin

Metro Vancouver actually wants to enhance the hub city centres with more office, and not to concentrate it all in the Metro core.

I don't think that was a design by choice: it just happens that the metro core has always typically been anti-big-development, such that builders simply give up and move further to build, thus benefiting the hub city centres. Logically most businesses would rather be in or close to the main hub or CBD, especially for a mid-size city like Metro Van.

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

156.7 and 143.9 metres.

Guessing this will be the first skyscraper in downtown Coquitlam? (Over 150).

The Coquitlam diagram needs some serious TLC.

Mthree is 48 storeys but no idea of the metres, its across the street from this new proposal

[invisibleairwaves]

Originally Posted by Vin

I don't think that was a design by choice: it just happens that the metro core has always typically been anti-big-development, such that builders simply give up and move further to build, thus benefiting the hub city centres. Logically most businesses would rather be in or close to the main hub or CBD, especially for a mid-size city like Metro Van.

I'm not sure this really squares with the boom in Downtown South over the last few years- it's not like the core has been a developmental ghost town. There's plenty going on downtown, it just isn't as transformational as the suburban projects because the peninsula's already full of towers.

And yes, distributing office space around the region is most certainly by design- planners have generally realized that a model where everyone flocks to the CBD in the morning and abandons it in the evening is a nightmare for transportation and livability. The economics aren't great either, especially since modern communications are reducing the benefits of the CBD and downtown land is so unbelievably expensive.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Vin

I don't think that was a design by choice: it just happens that the metro core has always typically been anti-big-development, such that builders simply give up and move further to build, thus benefiting the hub city centres. Logically most businesses would rather be in or close to the main hub or CBD, especially for a mid-size city like Metro Van.

The Metro Plan calls for significant employment in the other centres, as well as the Metro Core. The problem is, that's not how it's currently playing out. There are eight buildings over 100,000 sq ft under construction Downtown right now, with over three million square feet of office space. There are over 1.3 million square feet approved in the Metro Core, likely to start building soon, and there are over 1.5 million square feet waiting to be approved.

Unless I've missed something, there's one project for First West Credit Union under construction in Langley with 107,000 square feet of office space, and three projects in Surrey totaling 376,000 square feet. That's it for significant office space. There are possible future towers in Burnaby, but the developers haven't committed to building them, and the last tower took years to find anyone who wanted it.

It would be much better from a regional planning and transit perspective if the Metro Core wasn't absorbing 90% of the new space - but that's the reality right now.

[GMD]

[QUOTE=red-paladin;8458638]http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2019/0...entre-project/
Onni Submits Application for Three Tower Coquitlam Centre Project

Now that Glen will be getting close to full build out from Johnson to Westwood, and with the mall planning redevelopment along its eastern flank (west side of Pinetree) would be nice to see Coquitlam extend the 'downtown' area South through the wedge shaped land bordered by Glen, Pinetree, Westwood and Lougheed - currently a sea of strip malls and surface parking locked in place by commercial zoning.

I was at Sunwood Square the other day, oceans of parking that can't possibly have been needed even before the Safeway closed (and with Save-On next door, T&T in the mall and Superstore across the street - is a grocery store really necessary on this spot?). Such a waste, especially when the Skytrain and West Coast Express are right there. The city is in the process of planning the area so hopefully they'll come out of that with a plan for that area to urbanize.

[invisibleairwaves]

More on the Burquitlam front- there's a development application in for the NE corner of Como Lake and Clarke. The KFC/Subway site plus the apartment buildings behind. Can't find anything online and I didn't get a good pic of the sign, but it's by Intergulf, four towers (40, 32, 28, 26 storeys) with a sprinkling of commercial space facing the corner.

Lots going on in the triangle bounded by Como Lake, Clarke and Robinson. This project, the townhouses SpongeG posted about on the last page, and several six-storey lowrises all starting up in the next year or so.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

Mthree is 48 storeys but no idea of the metres, its across the street from this new proposal

That's just the marketing. It's not actually 48 floors tall.

[SpongeG]

no it's only 42 really. they must skip some fours.

[SpongeG]

Coquitlam council grills assessment authority

Comes to the defence of Austin Heights businesses and Coquitlam Centre mall

Grant Granger / Tri-City News
FEBRUARY 7, 2019


Photograph By GARY MCKENNA/TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

Coquitlam council took exception to BC Assessment's methods of determining property market value when two officials from the provincial body came calling Monday.

Mayor Richard Stewart and others on council came to the defence of businesses in the Austin Heights neighbourhood whose assessed values have jumped substantially in the past three years, creating hardships in paying increased property tax.

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City Centre assessed values have jumped significantly, too, with the highest value assessment in the city being 54-acre Coquitlam Centre mall property valued at just under $700 million.

“The one that I’m worried about is Coquitlam Centre because that’s the core of our retail economy,” said Coun. Bonita Zarrillo, who said an area plan is still in the works and approving development is a slow process.

“We can’t push these things as fast as the developers want us to push and recover these type of things [property tax paid],” she said.

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https://www.tricitynews.com/news/coq...ity-1.23625562

[SpongeG]

Buchanan Square to be spruced up

Coquitlam to take opportunity to make it more inviting when RCMP roof membrane is replaced

Grant Granger / Tri-City News FEBRUARY 9, 2019


Buchanan Square's lover level between Coquitlam city hall and the RCMP station doubles as the roof for the RCMP parkade. The city wants to make the square more inviting when it replaces the roof's membrane.

When the leaky roof of the Coquitlam RCMP parkade gets replaced the city wants to spruce up what’s on top of it, too.

The lower level of Buchanan Square, which sits between the cop shop and city hall, doubles as the roof of the RCMP parkade. When it was built in 1996 a single-ply modified rubber asphalt membrane was installed over the parkade’s concrete roof. The membrane was expected to remain waterproof for 15 to 20 years. There have been numerous leaks that have needed repair in the last five years, according to a city staff report, and the leaking is so extensive is some areas many stalls are unusable and it has to be replaced.

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https://www.tricitynews.com/news/buc...-up-1.23625668

[SpongeG]

Mont Bleu in Coquitlam at Lougheed and Blue Mountain is now Called Horizon 21. Not sure if they have changed the design or not.

http://horizon21living.com/

[SpongeG]

Port Moody - close to the inlet centre station, south of dewdney trunk

• Video Link

The site is located at the southwest corner of Buller Street and Henry Street. It is bounded by Coquitlam to the south, unopened City of Port Moody road right-of-way to the east, undeveloped medium-density townhouse residential (RM4) lots across Henry Street to the north, and older Multi family to the west.

145 condo units;
A total density of 1.33 FAR;
a 1.2 acre park dedication;
$870,000 CAC;
268 parking spaces on three levels of underground parking.

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2019/0...rt-moody-site/

[osirisboy]

1.33 far and close to a skytrain station. Ugh

[SpongeG]

there used to be a trailer park in that area a decade or so ago, at least its improving, Port Moody le that site do nothing forever

[GeeCee]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

there used to be a trailer park in that area a decade or so ago, at least its improving, Port Moody le that site do nothing forever

This site is behind Moody Middle, I think you might be thinking of a different place.

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by GeeCee

This site is behind Moody Middle, I think you might be thinking of a different place.

oh probably when i typed it in google maps it took me to henry street at inlet centre station

i have no clue where it is then

I wish bloggers and real estate peddlers would put useful information in their listings lol