An application has been submitted for a 7,686 SF site  on East Pender Street near Commercial Drive in East Vancouver. The plan calls for a 5-storey  mixed-use building with two levels of office space and three levels of residential space containing 15 residential units and 14 underground parking stalls. The site is zoned MC-1, which conditionally allows a mix of uses.

The site, currently improved with a single storey industrial building, was acquired earlier this year for $1,830,000 by Epix Developments.

Impressive view of Vancouver with Mt. Baker in the background:

Construction is progressing at the intersection of Marine and Cambie in Vancouver:

Photo Credit, Genauso at SSP

A development application has been filed for a 12,078 SF, RM-2 zoned site at the Northeast corner of East 44th Ave and St. George (a block West of Fraser St.) in East Vancouver. The plan includes:

• A three-storey townhouse building with 9 units
• 12,807 SF of gross floor area (1.05 FSR)
• One level of underground parking with 14 spaces

More information can be found here.

By Frances Bula

This comment is buried far down in a post on Gord Price’s blog, Pricetags, (the one about the death of residential real estate) but of course it’s attracting a lot of interest. For those who don’t know, Scot Hein ran the urban-design department inside the city’s planning division. It was a position that had been created by former planner Larry Beasley, as a way of driving home the point that planning wasn’t just about the buildings or the traffic flow or the other mechanical parts, but about how communities used space. Scot was a big part of the planning for Olympic village. The European feel of the plaza, which has become a hive of activity, is part of his work. He left earlier this year to work at UBC, a surprise to many who knew him and how dedicated he was to the city.

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November 10, 2014 4:28 pm

Here is what really happened speaking as the city’s Senior Urban Designer at the time the GW process was tabling built form.

We put together what we believed was a reasoned overall plan for GW towards increased residential and employment opportunity. We fully appreciated the development economics of the Safeway site …read more

Source:: Frances Bula