A rezoning application has been submitted for the redevelopment of the Poor Italian Restaurant site at the Southwest corner of East 1st Avenue and Rupert Street in East Vancouver.

The 16,100 SF site is currently zoned CD-1 and is located within the Rupert and Renfrew Interim Rezoning Policy boundary, adopted by council in 2022. This policy allows rezonings for rental apartments in advance of the overall area plan being finalized.

The development proposal anticipates replacing the existing restaurant building with a new 6-storey mixed-use rental building with the Poor Italian Restaurant on the ground floor over 2 levels of underground parking and includes:

• 63 market rental units;
  • 16 studios, 27 one-bedrooms & 20 two-bedrooms;
• 5,700 SF of new space for Poor Italian on the ground floor;
• A total density of 3.34 FSR;
• A building height of 71 ft.; and
• 53 vehicle parking spaces and 106 bicycle spaces.

The architect for the project is Cornerstone Architecture.

The formal rezoning application by Concert Properties and Peterson Group for Langara Gardens has been released publicly.

A rezoning policy statement for the 20.8 acre site had been completed in 2018 and the full rezoning application had been anticipated since that time.

The proposal is for the redevelopment of the site with buildings between 3 and 36 storeys. The existing four 18-storey towers would be retained. The proposal includes:

• Approximately 430 social housing units;
• Approximately 760 rental units (including 85 below-market units);
• Approximately 1,430 strata units;
• 3.1 FSR total density (2.7M SF);
• A 69-space childcare facility;
• Public open spaces, Cambie Park upgrades, a new 1-acre park.

The application is being considered under the Langara Gardens Policy Statement and the Issues Report: Direction for Intensification of Large Sites to include Moderate Income Rental Housing.

The full rezoning application can be viewed here.

The architect for the project is James Cheng Architects.

The site was originally sold by Colliers to Peterson Group in 2009 for $157,000,000. Concert Properties was brought on as a 50% partner in 2015.

Wesgroup has submitted a revised rezoning application to the City of Vancouver for a site that they own at the Southwest corner of Oak Street and West 41st Avenue.

A previous rezoning application for the site from 2020 envisioned 222 rental units in 8 and 16-storey buildings and a total density of 5.03 FSR based on the guidelines in the 2018 Cambie Corridor Plan.

The new proposal seeks to increase the density and overall number of units via an increase in building heights above what is prescribed in the Cambie Plan.

The revised plan for the site envisions a 25-storey and 17-storey building over a 6-storey podium and includes:

• 357 rental units with 20% of the floor area secured for below market rental units (approximately 72 units);
• 16,000 SF of retail space;
• A total density of 7.31 FSR;
• A building height of 258 ft. and 176 ft.; and
• 224 vehicle parking spaces and 696 bicycle parking spaces.

The application makes note of the fact that the site sits adjacent three other large-scale projects that have taller towers, including the Louis Brier site (20-30 storeys), the Oakridge Transit Centre site (20-26 storeys) and the Jewish Community Centre site (25-27 storeys).

The architect for the project is Arcadis (formerly IBI Group).