Manulife Financial’s 270,000 square foot proposed office development unanimously (8-0)passed Urban Design Panel on October 24th.  The project, which is located at the Howe Street and Nelson Street intersection, will be 16 storeys tall and have retail at grade.  980 Howe Street is in the pre-leasing phase and could be completed by 2015.

Other projects that were voted on at the October 24th meeting included:

2477 Carolina Street by Royal East Broadway Development: 2 votes for, 7 votes against

557 East Cordova Street by Boffo Properties: 9 votes for, 0 against

1729-1735 East 33rd Avenue by Cedar Cottage Cohousing Company: 2 votes for, 6 votes against

Westbank Projects, in partnership with Ivanhoe Cambridge have applied to the City of Vancouver to rezone Oakridge Centre to develop a 45-storey mixed-use development consisting of 1,430,000 SF of retail, 425,000 SF of office space, 45,000 SF of amenity space, and 2,700,000 SF of residential, with a total density of 3.54 FSR. The proposal includes 2,818 units with a maximum height of 412 ft., and 6,694 parking spaces. Henriquez Partners is the Architect for the project.

The proposed rezoning has been in the works since 2007 when the Oakridge Policy Statement was adopted. More recently, Westbank has been brought on and a planning program was developed in 2012 to help guide the rezoning process.

Model View looking East

More information can be found HERE.

Richmond Review – Towers, not sausages, eyed for Grimms site.

A longtime sausage factory in the heart of City Centre will be flattened and three residential towers will rise from the rubble, if council approves a new development plan.

Council gave first reading to a rezoning proposal Monday that would allow 237 homes and 4,370 square feet of commercial space on the site of Grimms Fine Foods.

Read more: http://www.richmondreview.com/news/176041481.html

Reliance Properties is well underway on the construction of 564 Beatty located adjacent at the intersection of Beatty and Dunsmuir Streets.  The project will be a great blend of old and new and will include:

> Over 50,000 square feet of floor space with approximately 5,700 square foot floor plates

> Retail on the main and plaza level floors with parking off the alley and office on the top 6 floors

> A 9.23 FSR with completion scheduled for early 2014

Burnaby NewsLeader – Townhouses proposed for Hastings, Sardis.

Almost five years after the rezoning process started a townhouse project for North Burnaby is set to go to public hearing.

In November 2007, the developer first proposed a 17-unit stacked townhouse project at 5161 and 5191 Hastings St., at the northwest corner of Hastings and Springer Avenue. The properties are currently home to an older four-plex and an older single-family home, according to a city staff report, and both are designated for medium-density apartment projects in city plans.

Read more: http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/175861301.html