Revised Rezoning Application for Broadway-Commercial Safeway Site Includes 981 Rental Units
Westbank and Crombie REIT are getting closer to going to council for their long anticipated redevelopment of the 105,000 SF Safeway site at 1780 East Broadway, just East of Commercial Drive.
The project, first proposed in 2019, has since been redesigned multiple times due to feedback from planning as well as changing market conditions. Primarily envisioned as a condo project originally, the revisions have since seen the project become taller and denser, and all rental units.
The current proposal includes three rental towers at 35, 36 and 39-storeys above a retail base. Details include:
- 981 rental units;
- 99 units secured at below market rates;
- A total density of 7.87 FSR;
- A max. building height of 425 ft.;
- Commercial retail space at grade, including a 50,000 SF Safeway;
- Office and commercial space within the podium levels;
- A public plaza running parallel to the SkyTrain station;
- Publicly accessible outdoor pace on top of the retail base; and
- 440 vehicle parking spaces and 2006 bicycle spaces.
This application is being considered under the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. The application requests consideration of height and density in excess of the existing policy.
The architect for the project is Perkins & Will.