North Shore Outlook – Checking out: West Vancouver Safeway closing at month’s end.
The end of this month will mark the end of an era in West Vancouver when a staple Marine Drive grocery store checks out its last customer.
Employees at the 1650 Marine Dr. Safeway store were given notice earlier this month that when they close shop on Saturday, June 30, it will be for good.
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More than 100 micro-lofts, plus live-work units, and retail space on the ground floor are planned by the new owner of the old Janion Hotel on Store Street.
The life-saving plan for the run-down, vacant Janion by Vancouver’s Reliance Properties dovetails with redevelopment of the west entrance to Victoria’s downtown. A new bridge is going in, a public plaza is planned next to the Janion, and a separate plan by the same developer aims to put up a mix of uses on the Northern Junk property at the foot of Johnson Street.
Crosstown Properties, a company within the Reliance group, bought the 1891 Janion for $2.49 million last month. Reliance has a long history of revitalizing older properties in Vancouver. It is also partnering with Jim Pattison Developments Ltd. on the $500-million, mixed-use Burrard Gateway development, one of the biggest projects planned for Vancouver.
North Van city mulls how to handle amenity contributions.
Today, it boasts little more than the shells of a furniture shop and Chinese restaurant, both long out of business. But, like many unused sites in the Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood, 127 E. Third St. has caught the eye of a developer.
BT Investments is proposing a seven-storey mixed-use development for the 125-foot-wide site. Last month, plans for the plot — which include 43 strata units ranging in size from studios to two-bedroom suites, four retail spaces and 18 market rental apartments, with a covenant that will bind them as rental units in perpetuity — went to a town hall meeting.
