An online petition to save the Brickhouse building at 730 Main St. in Chinatown has emerged even though a rezoning application referencing the site has yet to be filed with the City of Vancouver. The petition raises concerns about the building’s future because the property is part of a possible application to redevelop properties from 728 to 796 Main Street.
The petition, which links to a recent Vancouver Sun article by John Mackie (“The heritage battle for Chinatown”), states: “Don’t let new condos flatten the Brickhouse.”…
…Bonnis Development owns the Brickhouse property, as well as vacant land beside it.
The building at 796 Main St. — Creekside Student Residence — is designated under the City of Vancouver’s single-room-accommodation bylaw and contains 22 designated SRA units. That site includes another small building at 207 Union Street — the Jimi Hendrix Shrine building.
“We have an agreement with the current owner, but we do not own [the property] as of today,” Kerry Bonnis, principle of Bonnis Development, told the Courier.
Read more: http://www.vancourier.com/news/petition-raises-concerns-over-future-of-brickhouse-1.1624454
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Porte Development has submitted a rezoning application for a 46,239 SF site at the corner of Dawson Street and Madison Avenue in the Brentwood Area of Burnaby. Unlike the rest of Brentwood, this proposal is not for a tower but for a 6-storey woodframe building with retail at grade and 92 residential units above. The plan includes:
Woodframe product is relatively scarce and will be a welcome project amid Brentwood’s thousands of highrise units in various stages of development.
The second half of the site was assembled earlier this year after the other half was bought in 2006 for a blended cost of approximately $47 per buildable SF.
A development application has been filed by Next Pacific Ventures Ltd. for a 6,754 site on East Pender Street near Clark Drive. The plan for the I-2 zoned property at 1257 East Pender Street includes:
The application is conditional under the I-2 zoning, which permits a height up to 100 ft. and allows some general office space in conjunction with industrial uses.
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