Hua Long International Technical Investment has applied to the City of Vancouver to rezone a 27,764 SF, C-2 zoned site at 2153-2199 Kingsway (at the Northwest corner of Gladstone) for a 6-storey rental apartment building.

The proposal includes:

• 101 market rental apartment units;
• 45 studio units, 18 1-bedroom units, 31 two-bedrooms & 7 three-bedrooms
• A total density of 3.37 FSR (93,651 SF);
• 14,499 SF of ground-floor retail space;
• A building height of 71.4 ft.;
• Two floors of underground parking, with access from the lane to the north of the site.

This application is being considered under the Secured Market Rental Housing (Rental 100) Policy.

The site, which comprises four separate lots, had been assembled over a period between 2010 and 2015.

The rezoning application can be viewed here.

The architect for the project is IBI Group.

Asia Standard has filed their development application for the 357-room Empire Landmark Hotel Site on Robson Street. The C-6 zoned site is currently improved with a 41-storey hotel and the redevelopment potential arose out of the new guidelines in the West End Community Plan which was adopted in 2014.

Redevelopment plans for the 40,920 SF site include:

• Two towers, one 28-storeys and 30 storeys
• 280 residential units (57 social housing units /223 market units);
• retail use on the ground floor and office use on the second and third floors;
• 393,850 SF of floor area;
• total density of 9.63 FSR
• building height of 300 ft.; and
• four levels of underground parking accessed from the lane.

The social housing is located in the podium of the building.

Interestingly, the existing hotel is 394 feet; taller than the proposed tower replacements, albeit at lower density.

Wanson Development is planning a new 6-storey residential building in the Lynn Creek area of North Vancouver, just a couple of blocks South of the Seylynn Village project which is half complete. The site is located at 467 Mountain Highway, just South of Hunter Street. This is currently an industrial area, but portions fronting Mountain Highway were redesignated for mixed-use a few years ago.

Plans for the 18,600 SF site include:

• a 6-storey building
• 63 condo units (24% one-bedrooms, 66% two-bedrooms, 10% three-bedrooms)
• 6 ground-floor retail units totaling 5,663 SF
• a building height of 75.5 feet
• a total density of 3.5 FSR
• two levels of underground parking

The rezoning requires a total CAC payment of $705,000, equivalent to $16.50 per SF for density above 1.2 FSR base. Wanson had acquired the site in 2014 for $4,800,000, or $74 per buildable SF.

The building features an interesting central courtyard layout. The architect for the project is Francl Architecture.

Shape Properties is proceeding with a formal rezoning application for the first residential tower in The City of Lougheed, the project name for the 40-acre Lougheed mall site that was approved for redevelopment under a master plan earlier this year to include 23 residential towers.

The application for the first phase of the project is in a prominent part of the site at the Southeast corner (Northwest corner of North Rd and Austin Ave). The plan includes:

• a 55-storey residential tower
• a total building height of 520 ft.
• 566 units
• 517,000 SF of residential area
• a total density of 2.60 FAR
• 590 underground parking spaces

The application describes the design: “The floor plates of the subject Tower 1 are arranged in two massing volumes that offer a different height extrusion of one part against the other. The larger of the two parts extends up to 55 storeys while the smaller part sits at 47-storeys. This arrangement provides for a landscaped terrace and exposed elevator core.”

A development application has been submitted for an industrial-zoned property in the Strathcona area of East Vancouver. The plan for the 11,616 SF, I-2 zoned site at 1157 Parker Street is to develop a new four-storey, mixed-use building, consisting of:

• Manufacturing uses on the first, second, and third floors (23,198 SF)
• General Office uses on the third and fourth floors (11,650 SF)
• Total building area of 34,848 SF
• total density of 3.00 FSR
• two levels of underground parking

Under the site’s existing I-2 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning. The architect for the project is Yamamoto Architecture.

The site was listed and sold by Matt Smith and Steve Fame of Colliers.