Victoria Construction - #7

[craneSpotter]

Originally Posted by Mike K.

Not to worry, crews are now painting the tower.

I like how the building blends in with this view, with the use of the brickwork and color.

[headhorse]

victoria is great at making everything there look the exact same.

[craneSpotter]

Chard has started marketing The Escher @ 838 Broughton. Nice little project. Should break ground in January.

[Metro-One]

I love how Victoria is always chugging along with these relatively large projects.

Although it is never a crazy boom, the addition of all these 5 to 20 story buildings must be making quite an impact on the urban environment if one were to look back 20, even 10 years ago for comparison.

[craneSpotter]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

I love how Victoria is always chugging along with these relatively large projects.

Although it is never a crazy boom, the addition of all these 5 to 20 story buildings must be making quite an impact on the urban environment if one were to look back 20, even 10 years ago for comparison.

Yes, they just keep getting built. I have noticed some change in downtown for sure. There has to be significantly more people living downtown. The buildings have also been quite spread out over a large area... so no one area has drastically changed, the shorter ones just kinda blend into the existing street - with the exception of maybe the Humboldt 'valley' - which caused panic in come circles with regard to heights and 'Vancouverism' of the buildings LOL.

Here is nice 5 storey project 'The Union' which was finished this spring in Victoria's Old Town area. This is actually two buildings with a courtyard between.




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[craneSpotter]

While not tall LOL. Here is the Janion, a 7 storey micro-loft project that just started construction (>95% sold) nearby the Union building. The project incorporates the Historic Janion building (1891) fronting Store Street. I think it will turn out OK





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Big difference in architecture and neighbourhood feel between Old Town and the area where The Escher will be built.

[Metro-One]

The union looks pretty cool!

[aastra]

victoria is great at making everything there look the exact same.

Apparently it's becoming a real problem. Everything looks exactly the same and people are so confused that they're accidentally walking into the wrong homes and offices and hotel rooms. Must be a west coast thing.





























































I got so confused I think I posted the same place twice!

[Mike K.]

What's up with re-posting the same image 28 times, aastra?

Anyways, here are the latest renderings of 1515, a 6- and 13-storey office development at 1515 Douglas immediately across the street from Victoria City Hall. Source: http://vibrantvictoria.ca/forum/inde...13#entry228396



















Check out those elevators!

[craneSpotter]

^ looks like it will be nicer than the Atrium. Same team I guess.

[aastra]

New building on the Selkirk/Gorge waterfront:



pic by Gary Hoyer
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_hoyer/15025351809/

[Mike K.]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

^ looks like it will be nicer than the Atrium. Same team I guess.

Exactly the same developer and architect combo.

Two is enough, I'd say. We don't want the 2010's to be remembered as the "atrium" era in downtown Victoria.

[Mike K.]

Quick update for Era.







Source: http://vibrantvictoria.ca/forum/inde...44#entry229072

[Mike K.]

Not very exciting but far better than what was there before. This is a four storey office/commercial building in the 600-block of Fort.







Source: http://vibrantvictoria.ca/forum/inde...-7#entry229102

[craneSpotter]

The little airport that could We need US pre-clearance already!!

Victoria International Airport sets passenger record

Times-Colonist - Sep 19, 2014

Victoria International Airport numbers leaped to an all-time high in August, reaching a record level not only for that month but for any month in its history.

There was a 7.7 per cent increase in passengers compared with the same month last year — 171,764 versus 159,545 for August 2013, which was the previous record-setting month.

Every month of this year so far has seen a higher passenger count than the same month last year.

[Mike K.]

Era's crane is coming down today. It'll be a few months before cranes appear on the skyline once again.

[craneSpotter]

Looks like the Maritime Museum of B.C. will be leaving Bastion Square in October and move to the refurbished CPR Steamship Terminal building on the Inner Harbour next year. Causeway level -which will be great exposure to the throngs of tourists. Nice facility, hope it happens.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...&id=aeaeddba6b

[Vin]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

Looks like the Maritime Museum of B.C. will be leaving Bastion Square in October and move to the refurbished CPR Steamship Terminal building on the Inner Harbour next year. Causeway level -which will be great exposure to the throngs of tourists. Nice facility, hope it happens.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...&id=aeaeddba6b

Awww! Now we can't ride that rickety old but beautiful elevator at the old courthouse (Bastion Square) location, not to mention visiting the old courtroom and pretending to be a judge. But yeah, still excited for them to be at the new location.

[craneSpotter]

Originally Posted by Vin

Awww! Now we can't ride that rickety old but beautiful elevator at the old courthouse (Bastion Square) location, not to mention visiting the old courtroom and pretending to be a judge. But yeah, still excited for them to be at the new location.

I wonder if the ghosts will follow too

In the square you now find yourself in the heart of this most haunted city.  Even before Europeans arrived, the natives believed this spot had strong magical powers. Virtually every building in the square is associated with a ghost or two. You might hear the clanking of chains at the entrance to Helmcken Alley or even catch a glimpse of the prisoner murdered there in the 1860s.  Listen for phantom music at the window of  the building to the right of the alley, where an organist once employed at a restaurant in the building is said to still play requests from “the other side”. The most haunted building in the square is currently home to the Maritime Museum. Victoria’s jail and gallows once stood here. Some unclaimed bodies were buried there and their bones remain here today! Look through the windows at the entrance to the Museum and watch for a shadowy, slender figure with a Van Dyke beard, which has been seen gliding down the main staircase. It’s thought to be the ghost of Victoria’s infamous “Hanging Judge”, Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, eternally looking for another guilty man to condemn...

Yeah, maybe worth taking the kiddies to the Bastion Square location one last time.

[craneSpotter]

great news for the suburb of Colwood Not good news for the small investors.

Hopefully we see the project restart soon - a new super London Drugs is still looking to locate in the commercial space of phase 1. The Royal bank, which was also going to relocate (in phase 1 with LD) has since signed a lease in the new (unrelated) building going up across the street, which will also house a new Rexall drugs I believe.

Vancouver firm takes over Colwood Corners development

TC - October 9, 2014
http://www.timescolonist.com/busines...ment-1.1421595

Ownership of the Colwood property that was to become Capital City Centre has been transferred to a Vancouver developer for $17.5 million.

Under a deal approved by B.C. Supreme Court, Onni Group will take control of the League Assets subsidiary that was behind Capital City Centre. The site at Colwood

Corners now consists of a large hole in the ground with concrete foundation work.

It’s unclear what Onni intends to do with the property once it takes possession, but the firm is in the business of building and owning residential and commercial space.

In the past 10 years, Onni has built 6,000 homes. It owns and manages about five million square feet of commercial space and 4,600 apartments.

developer - http://www.onni.com