Grocery shoppers will have to wait a while for North Vancouver’s first Whole Foods to open on the corner of 13th and Lonsdale Avenue.

Slated to open in early 2018, the 40,000-square-foot store will be in the same lot where Safeway is now and will anchor The Onni Group’s mixed-use development, which includes an 80-foot office building and two condo towers measuring 240 feet and 180 feet.

“We are deeply committed to creating a store that serves the unique needs of this community, and will reach out to ask for direct feedback about what our new neighbours would like to see in the store,” said Joe Rogoff, president of Whole Foods in the Pacific North West region, in a press release.

Know for its organic and natural selection of food, this will be the second Whole Foods on the North Shore, including a location already at Park Royal Village.

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IMG_20140305_114525, a photo by AMetalnikov on Flickr.

March 5, 2014

The Flamingo Restaurant site at 7518-7550 Cambie Street has sold for $12,500,000. The 29,500 SF site sold for $163 per buildable SF (based on an estimated achievable rezoned density of 2.6 FSR). The site will require rezoning under the Cambie Corridor Plan.

The city has sold the Merchant Square office tower to a company owned in part by two Vancouver tycoons, including well-known philanthropist Joe Segal.

The eight-storey building is under construction at the corner of Columbia and Eighth streets. It sits atop Anvil Centre civic facility.

The tower has fetched $36.5 million for the city, and the price does not include the three levels of parking or the “tenant improvements” needed to lease the space.

The building’s new owner is 777 Columbia, a company jointly owned by Segal’s Kingswood Capital Corporation and CRS Group of Companies. Developer Suki Sekhon runs CRS.

“We’ve been looking at it for a few years. It’s a growing area and we think it’s got great potential,” said Sekhon, who said the building has no tenants confirmed.

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