A rezoning application has been submitted for a site owned by the City of Vancouver at 58 West Hastings Street. This is the large (32,228 SF) vacant lot on the South side of Hastings between Abbott and Carrall Street.

Plans for social housing on the site were first unveiled by the City back in 2016 after many years of discussion and several lengthy periods of the site being occupied as a homeless camp.

The proposal is for a ten-story mixed-use building with:

• Seven floors of housing, with 222 social housing units;
• 54 two-bedroom units
• Retail and Health Care Office uses on floors 1-3;
• One level of underground parking;
• A total density of 6.6 FSR; and
• A building height of 105 feet.

The proposal includes a healthcare clinic and medical and dental offices will occupy the rear portion of the ground floor, as well as the second and third floors. Residential rental social housing with self-contained apartment units are located on the upper floors.

This rezoning application is being considered under the Rezoning Policy for the Downtown Eastside and the Downtown Eastside Community Plan.

The architect for the project is W.T. Leung Architects.

Wesgroup Properties has acquired the Chevron site at Dunbar and West 39th Avenue on Vancouver’s Westside. The 18,009 SF C-2 zoned site sold for $19,400,000, or $430 per buildable SF based upon the density permitted under the existing zoning.

The gas station site was one of a few properties offered for sale by Chevron in 2016. Others included the site on West Georgia downtown, and a now closed commercial station at Clark & 1st.

Catalyst Community Developments Society has submitted their application to rezone 2221 Main Street, a prominent 34,885 SF site on the West side of Main Street between 6th and 7th. The site is currently zoned IC-2 but the Mount Pleasant Community Plan allows rezoning of sites along Main to higher density.

This is the first project built under the City’s Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA), and was first announced at a press conference on the site last summer.

The proposal for this first affordable housing project under VAHA is a 9-storey mixed-use building that includes:

• 145 affordable housing units;
• 28 studios, 45 one-bedrooms, 42 two-bedrooms & 30 three-bedrooms
• A total density of 3.30 FSR
• 9,928 SF of ground floor retail space
• A building height of 98 feet
• 192 underground parking spaces on 4 levels;
• 12,000 SF of public plaza area on the 7th Ave corner

The architect for the project is Rositch Hemphill Architects.