By ChangingCity

The mystery was that as far as we knew there wasn’t either a rezoning or development application submitted, although the building was being marketed. The design by Musson Cattell Mackey initially was for a 9-storey building with 77,000 sq ft of space (right).

Now there’s a development application, it’s a 10 storey building, and the design has evolved into something that looks really much more interesting. Our image shows the view down Seymour, looking north. There are angled glazed sections in the Seymour facade that don’t show up well from this angle, but which add an extra level of variation on what is really a very efficient block floorplate.

The Urban Design panel are due to see it in April 2014, and given a positive response it’s scheduled for the Development Permit Board in June.

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Source: Changing City

Canada Sunrise Development Corp. has acquired a 4.91 acre site across from Lansdowne Mall on No. 3 Road in a $69,000,000 deal.

The site is identified as Urban Core T6 in the City of Richmond’s City Centre area plan.

Canada Sunrise is a Canadian subsidiary of UEM Sunrise Berhad, one of Asia’s largest and leading development corporations. They are currently nearing completion on the Quintet project further North on No. 3 Road.

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Marpole Community Plan adopted.

#Marpole Community Plan #MarpoleCP approved unanimously with minor additions to emphasise most significant community concerns #VanPoli

— Liveable Vancouver (@LiveableVan) April 3, 2014

Speaker in favour of revised #Marpole plan: “Far more reasonable balance between market forces & community values” than previous. #vanpoli

— NPA Vancouver (@NPAVancouver) April 2, 2014

Speaker proposing rental housing project on behalf of client for Southwest Marine Drive in #Marpole. To consider as part of plan. #vanpoli

— NPA Vancouver (@NPAVancouver) April 2, 2014

So far speakers are supportive of Marpole plan. Not perfect, but a step forward. Pleased at less single-family home rezoning #vanpoli

— emily jackson (@theemilyjackson) April 2, 2014

1st speaker to Marpole plan: supports plan, could not have asked for better process since Council agreed to extend consultation #vanpoli

— Van Mayor’s Office (@VanMayorsOffice) April 2, 2014

Staff say most #Marpole rezonings would not reach FSR noted in plan. A rare few “anomolous” properties might exceed FSR in plan. #vanpoli

— NPA Vancouver (@NPAVancouver) April 2, 2014

Taken March 30, 2014 by Alex Wren

Developer Ian Gillespie: “This is going to sound arrogant but no one else is willing to do what I’m doing”

By Frances Bula

Developer Ian Gillespie is much in the news these days, as he launched his Gesamtkunstwerk exhibit a week ago as part of the build-up to Vancouver House, the Bjarke Ingels-designed tower that with be blooming flower-like (thin stalk, showy bee-attracting thing on top) next to the Granville Bridge.

Here’s a recent feature I did on him in Vancouver magazine. In advance of your column, I notice Gillespie seems to draw a lot more negative comments than any other developer I write about. I’ve done profiles of Peter Wall and the Malek brothers at Millennium, mentioned people like Terry Hui at Concord and Andrew Grant at PCI and Michael Audain at Polygon in stories any number of times, and never seen as much vitriol directed at them as at Gillespie. (Interestingly, others in the development community seem to be at least as annoyed by him as many resident groups.)

I’m guessing it’s because he tends to wade in to contentious parts of town, attracting more attention. (Some development companies I report on simply never ask for rezonings — they just don’t want to deal with the hassle. They stick strictly to land that’s already zoned for what they want to …read more

Source: Frances Bula