CIBT Education Group has applied to the City of Richmond for permission to rezone a site at 7780, 7800, 7804, 7820 and 7840 River Road in Richmond.

The 77,000 SF site is an assembly of underutilized commercial and industrial parcels. It is designated in the City of Richmond’s OCP as Urban Centre T5, which allows up to 3.0 FAR plus a bonus.

The proposal for the site includes:

• an 11-storey hotel with 183 guest rooms;
• an 8-storey office building with retail and restaurant space;
• 2 ½ levels of underground parking;
• a total density of 3.23 FAR (232,687 SF);
• dike upgrades to City’s current standard (15 ft.)

The architect for the project is Urban Solutions Architecture.

GWL Realty Advisors has submitted a rezoning application for a site they own at 1055 Harwood Street in the West End area of Downtown Vancouver.

The site was previously proposed by Strand and Intracorp for a condo/social housing project in 2018 before being shelved due to market conditions. The site was subsequently sold to GWL in 2022 following a change in rezoning policy which deleted the required social housing in exchange for 20% of the units being below market rentals.

The new proposal is to allow for the development of a 32-storey rental building that includes:

• 269 rental units
  • including 52 below market rental units
• A density of 11.71 FSR;
• A building height of 300 ft.; and
• 134 vehicle parking spaces and 513 bicycle spaces.

The application is being considered under the Criteria for 100% Secured Rental and Below-Market Housing as an Alternative to Inclusionary Social Housing in the Burrard Corridor of the West End Community Plan.

The architect for the project is GBL Architects.