Market Spotlight: Vancouver Urban Resort – 39 Smithe Street
By ChangingCity
We last posted on this project a year ago. Then the on-again, off-again casino project for the western end of the re-roofed BC Place stadium was back (and approved with conditions) with a new Darth Vader design from Las Vegas based Paragon Gaming who have added Canadian financial partners and Marriott International to run the two hotels that bookend the ‘resort’. Here’s one of the latest renders on the developer’s website – construction of the parkade has already started, and completion is supposed to be late in 2016.
The design is by ARCOP + acdf with Michelange Panzini, all from Montreal, although IBI Group are handling the Vancouver submissions. ARCOP’s original name was Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise, whose very first project anywhere was the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. We particularly liked this render from the Las Vegas press who can’t be expected to know that the gorgeous lawn is in fact the location of Concord Pacific’s One Pacific residential scheme, now also under construction.
Source:: Changing City