Trump Tower is a few floors away from its full height. The building is now over 60% sold:
Photo courtesy Jenn Chan
Trump Tower is a few floors away from its full height. The building is now over 60% sold:
Photo courtesy Jenn Chan
Vancouver’s planning department will grapple with subjects ranging from heritage buildings to policy statements for large parcels of land in 2015.
In a sit-down with the Courier earlier this month, Brian Jackson, the city’s manager of planning and development, outlined priorities for the coming year.
Finding more ways to protect heritage buildings remains a top concern. A series of reports related to the city’s Heritage Action Plan will be brought forward in stages in 2015.
Last June, council approved a one-year prohibition on demolishing pre-1940 homes in the First Shaughnessy District so the city could review the area’s official development plan and determine what steps can be taken to conserve heritage property in the district.
Jackson expects a report on that issue will be brought forward in March or April followed, in June, by recommendations on how to save more of the city’s character homes. In the fall, another report on additional heritage preservation techniques or methods, as well as how to finance them, will be unveiled, along with an update to heritage register — the first update in almost 30 years.
A plan by FDG Property Management to rezone a site at 161-165 East Keith Road has gone through public hearing. The plan is for a 17-storey, 93 unit residential development, of which 52 units will be stratified and 41 units will be secured as rental in perpetuity as a density bonus. Parking will be provided underground and accessed from East 6th Street. A density transfer is being proposed from adjacent City land (closed road).
Some great crane shots of MNP Tower, which is now nearing completion. Fixturing is underway for tenants with opening in the Spring.
Photos by Donald Jones, Flickr.
Imperial Oil has sold its 232-acre property in Port Moody and Anmore to a Vancouver-based company called Brilliant Circle Group (BCG), The Tri-City News has learned.
The sale became official last week, nearly two years after Imperial Oil put the property up for grabs as one of the largest prime real estate development opportunities in Metro Vancouver.
The undeveloped land — 150 acres in Anmore and 82 in PoMo, including the historic Ioco townsite — sits on the eastern side of Imperial Oil’s 600-acre holdings in the area.
“We’re starting with a blank piece of paper, we’re not coming in with any preconceived ideas,” said architect James Cheng, renowned as one of Vancouver’s leading residential tower designers. Cheng is representing Vancouver-based BCG and said the company’s principal, who asked that his name not be used, is a Canadian citizen with residences both here and in Hong Kong.
BCG is well aware of the environmental, heritage and bylaw restrictions on the land, Cheng said, but the property was too enticing to resist, adding that the group has purchased chunks of land in Metro Vancouver before but nothing on this scale.
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