British Pacific Properties have submitted a development permit application to the District of West Vancouver for Lot 1 of the Rodgers Creek Neighbourhood, a master planned development approved in 2008 that is comprised of mostly ground-oriented and apartment units spread over 13 lots, totaling 269 units. Lot 1 is approximately 2 acres in size and is located just off of Cypress Bowl Road. 

The proposal for Lot 1, entitled “Treehouse” includes a 12-storey flagship condo building, including:

• 37 condo units;
• Unit sizes from 1,847 SF to 2,804 SF;
• a total site coverage of 17%;
• 74 parking spaces & 74 bicycle parking spaces.

The application describes the design rationale: “Rather than beginning with a single impervious mass, the architecture is an assemblage of vertical masses, scaled to the height to the surround trees. The process is inspired by the Ecology of a tree, from which two Service Trunks reach out to capture daylight and fresh air. Spaces grow and extend organically, reaching southward to the view and northward engaging with the site. These shoots form physical connections to nature, creating outdoor living spaces and at grade connections. On the top three floors, the units branch out to form a canopy in the sky. These units will be caught between the forest and the water, offering amazing views and experiences throughout the units.”

The architects for the project are Olson Kundig in conjunction with Ramsay Warden Architects.

Reliance Properties has submitted a development permit application to the City of Vancouver for permission to develop “Tower C” at Burrard Place. The first two towers included a 55-storey residential tower with 444 units, sold out in 2016, and a 130,000 SF office tower on Burrard. The third tower is located mid-block on Hornby Street, at 1261 Hornby. 

The plan for the third tower includes a 35 storey mixed
use building, including the following:

• 206 condo units;
  • 105 one-bedrooms, 100 two-bedrooms and one three-bedroom;
• 27 market rental units;
  • 16 studios and 11 one bedrooms;
• 5,120 SF of retail;
• 40,252 SF of office;
• A building height of 368 ft;
• 9 levels of underground parking accessed from the lane with a total 375 parking spaces.

The application describes the design rationale: “Like most towers in Vancouver, Tower C’s massing is heavily shaped by zoning conditions, which in this case produces a simple volume with a nearly square plan of 36 stories. Our approach to the image of the building therefore has been influenced by this simple prismatic quality and by the fact that the neighboring towers are lighter in overall color and tone. To this end, we have developed a kind of supergrid of “modules”, here articulated by dark gray metals
against low iron glazing, that reads distinctly different than the lighter grids of Tower A and the punched white brick façade of Tower D.

Like cells in an analogue film strip, these modules track up the building in four bays, each slipping past one another, suggesting motion and revealing the “action” within each module. This composition plays in elevation with the symmetry of the typical floor plan through the interlocking material logic of clear / silver glazing systems and the gray metal panel system. To further refine this supergrid, black ceramic frit is used as a kind of graphic tailoring that includes radiused and thickened corners.”

The architects for the project are Neil Denari and IBI Group.

Anthem Properties is proposing to rezone a 6.0 acre site at 319 North Road for their upcoming project, entitled “SOCO“. The site is currently home to the Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre and liquor store. 

The application to the City of Coquitlam proposes to rezone the site from the existing C-2 General Commercial and RS-l One-Family Residential to C-7 Transit Village Commercial to accommodate a phased, mixed-use development.

The site is located within the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (BLNP)
and the Burquitlam-Lougheed ‘Core’ area in the TDS. The current OCP land use
designation on 319 North Road is Transit Village Commercial, and the current
designation on 566 Lougheed Highway is High Density Apartment Residential.

The proposed development includes 1,386 market condo units in five towers,
along with retail, restaurant, and office space. The overall gross buildable area can be up to a maximum of 1,185,607 SF.

The first phase of the project is located along North Road, and includes two towers (27 and 31 storeys) with condo units above a podium with a large restaurant space, commercial retail units, indoor and outdoor amenity space, and office space. 

The other three towers, to be built in three further phases, include tower heights of 24, 34 & 44 storeys.

Details of the first phase include:

• 494 condo units;
• 50 studios, 192 one-bedrooms and 252 two-bedroom units;
• 7,501 SF of restaurant space;
• 7,990 SF of retail space;
• 50,316 SF of office space;
• a total site density up to 4.5 FAR;
• 843 parking spaces;
• a new East-West collector and North-South Road;
• $45.9 Million in density bonus funds and CACs.

The architect for the project is IBI Group.

Ledingham McAllister has submitted a rezoning and development permit application to the City of Coquitlam for a 1.50 acre site at the southeast corner of Clarke
Road and Smith Avenue in the Burquitlam area of Coquitlam. The project is entitled “Highpoint“.

The site consists of three lots, two of which are vacant and a third which contains a 2-storey commercial building. The site is designated Transit Village Commercial in the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (BLNP) and is located within the “Core” area in the Transit- Oriented Development Strategy (TDS). The proposed rezoning to CD is based on the C-7 Zone.

Details of the proposal include a 50-storey mixed use tower with a podium and includes:

• 415 residential units:
  • 295 market condo units;
    • 97 one-bedrooms, 168 two-bedrooms;  30 three-bedrooms;
  • 105 purpose built rental units;
  • 15 below / non-market rental units ;
• 7 commercial retail units (16,000 SF);
• a total density of 6.1 FAR;
• a building height of 406 ft.;
• 15,900 SF of market condo common amenity space;
• 8,900 SF of rental unit common amenity space; and
• 527 parking spaces.

The application describes the building program: “The podium fronting Clarke Road is ten storeys in height and is characterized by an eight storey podium atop a double height commercial podium. All CRUs provide abundant transparent windows to ensure views from the street. Levels three through ten of the podium contain all of the 120 proposed rental units. Much of the floor area at the fourth level and adjacent the SkyTrain guide way consists of a bike storage and amenity area. This area will be screened with perforated metal panels, and will have accent lighting.”

The architect for the project is Rositch Hemphill Architects.

A development permit application has been filed for the third phase and final tower at Seylynn Village, a 5.7 acre site that will total 790 units and commercial space when completed. The original rezoning for the site in the Lynn Creek area was approved in 2012 and the development has been ongoing since that time with the soon to be completed 28-storey Compass tower, and the already completed Beacon building as well as a 6-storey non-market rental building. The total density for Seylynn Village at rezoning is 3.2 FSR.

Our team acted in the sale of the site in 2011.

The final building, entitled “Apex” will be located at the intersection of Mountain Highway and Fern Street.

Details of the 32-storey tower include:

• 274 condo units;
• 113 one-bedrooms, 122 two-bedrooms, 38 three-bedrooms & 1 four-bedroom;
• 8,782 SF of retail space fronting Mountain Hwy;
• a total building height of 322 feet;
• 373 parking stalls on two underground levels.