Coromandel Properties has filed a development application for a two-lot assembly on French Street in the Marpole area of Vancouver. The plans for the 9,723 SF, RM-8 zoned site is for:

• a 9 unit courtyard rowhouse development
• 1.20 FSR
• underground parking accessed from the lane.

The architect for the project is Gateway Architecture.

Coromandel had acquired the lots in early 2016 for a combined value of $3,850,000, or approximately $330 per buildable SF. Coromandel is now under construction across the lane for The Leveson, at Granville and West 62nd.

GBL Architects Inc. has applied to the City of Vancouver for permission to develop an 11,484 SF, C-2 zoned site at the corner of West 17th Avenue and Heather Street. The site is currently improved with a 3-storey walkup apartment building with ground floor retail.

Basic plan details consist of a 4-storey mixed use building with:

• one level of Retail and four levels of Residential
• 16 units
• 10 two-bedrooms and 6 three-bedrooms
• total density of 2.44 FSR
• 2 levels of underground parking, having vehicular access from the lane.

Under the site’s existing C-2 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning.

The site was listed for sale in early 2016 and sold to a numbered company for $9,100,000, or $325 per buildable SF.

Here is a brief photo update on the construction progress for The Exchange, a 31-store, 372,000 SF office tower at the corner of Howe Street and West Pender Street in Downtown Vancouver.

Construction got underway in early  2014 with the reconstruction of the old stock exchange building at 475 Howe Street.

The project is scheduled to be completed in 2017.

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