Construction is progressing at the intersection of Marine and Cambie in Vancouver:
Photo Credit, Genauso at SSP
Construction is progressing at the intersection of Marine and Cambie in Vancouver:
Photo Credit, Genauso at SSP
A development application has been filed for a 12,078 SF, RM-2 zoned site at the Northeast corner of East 44th Ave and St. George (a block West of Fraser St.) in East Vancouver. The plan includes:
More information can be found here.
By Frances Bula
This comment is buried far down in a post on Gord Price’s blog, Pricetags, (the one about the death of residential real estate) but of course it’s attracting a lot of interest. For those who don’t know, Scot Hein ran the urban-design department inside the city’s planning division. It was a position that had been created by former planner Larry Beasley, as a way of driving home the point that planning wasn’t just about the buildings or the traffic flow or the other mechanical parts, but about how communities used space. Scot was a big part of the planning for Olympic village. The European feel of the plaza, which has become a hive of activity, is part of his work. He left earlier this year to work at UBC, a surprise to many who knew him and how dedicated he was to the city.
Scot permalinkNovember 10, 2014 4:28 pmHere is what really happened speaking as the city’s Senior Urban Designer at the time the GW process was tabling built form.
We put together what we believed was a reasoned overall plan for GW towards increased residential and employment opportunity. We fully appreciated the development economics of the Safeway site …read more
Source:: Frances Bula