There was an article somewhere that quoted the owners as saying that this building / corner was no longer TransLink's referred site for a station entrance - so there was speculation about the Scotiabank site as well as a mid-block location closer to the hospitals.
Repost from the Broadway Subway thread (February 2016):
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Originally Posted by officedweller
The new office building at Oak & Broadway will only have an emergency exit for the future SkyTrain Station.
The presumption is that if the tunnel is under Broadway itself, then the Scotiabank site would seem like the alternate place for a large stationhouse - or it could be at Laurel on Broadway, closer to the hospitals, if the Oak Street bus can still stop in front of the station.
Otherwise, maybe a tunnel under 10th Ave., but that's not quite consistent with this building retaining an emergency exit.
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Plans for the building originally called for the inclusion of a station entrance for the Broadway Subway, the future underground extension of SkyTrain’s Millennium Line to Arbutus or as far as UBC. However, according to BlueSky Properties CEO Dale Bosa, those plans have been canceled.
“It’s our understanding that the station has moved and won’t be here on the site, so we don’t know the exact location… we did have some communication with the City of Vancouver that the station will not be on the site now,” Bosa told Vancity Buzz.
He adds that although a large entrance is no longer needed, the building will still provide space for an emergency access into the underground station structure. Some plans for the building are being reworked, mainly with a reconfiguration of the building’s permanent retail space and expansion of the office lobby. Under the originals plans, temporary retail space would have occupied the corner space designated for the station entrance.
Vancity Buzz reached out to the City of Vancouver for comment on the precise station location. The following statement was received from a spokesperson: “The City, in partnership with TransLink, has been working with development projects along the Broadway corridor to secure provisional access to future stations. The primary entrance for the future station near Oak Street is still to be confirmed at a future stage of the project’s design.”
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Interesting that one of the mullions is now black instead of the original grey. Going by there almost every day, it's fun to watch the corner take shape.
Interesting that one of the mullions is now black instead of the original grey. Going by there almost every day, it's fun to watch the corner take shape.
I was hoping the building across the street at 999 Broadway would install a Scotia Bank insignia centered in the middle of the stucco section as CAA had originally on the building. The new ones don't suit the architecture and that stucco wall is too blank without a sign as was designed. A simple 999 on that wall would look good. (and a good scrubbing)
Half a decade later and only one miserable 10-storey office tower added to West Broadway. Meanwhile there is a building boom everywhere else away from this stretch of urban location which is essentially the extension of downtown. Developers are totally shunning this corridor. So, can the City of Vancouver see this? How can they bring more people to come work or live in this area?
I've been waiting for blue skies to post an update, but as the weather refuses to cooperate I'll post these photos I took earlier this week. From the Granville Street Bridge it appears that the project is topped out, however with the weather, I felt the photos from that angle weren't worth the data they would take up.
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