Ledingham McAllister has submitted a rezoning and development permit application for 520 Cottonwood Avenue, at the corner of Cottonwood and Whiting Way. The 39,000 SF site is located in the rapidly developing Burquitlam area of Coquitlam. The site is currently improved with an older lowrise strata building which has sold. T

The application proposes to rezone the subject site from RM-2 Three Storey Medium Density Apartment Residential Zone to Comprehensive Development (CD-10), based on the Multi-Storey High Density Apartment Residential Zone (RM-6) per the Burquitlam Lougheed Neigbourhood Plan.

Details of the proposal, entitled “Precidia” include:

• 176 market condo units;
  • 60 one-bedrooms, 98 two-bedrooms and 18 three-bedrooms;
• 65 market rental units;
  • 5 studios, 32 one-bedrooms, 17 two-bedrooms & 11 three bedrooms;
• 10 non-market rental units;
  • 2 studios, 5 one-bedrooms and 3 two-bedrooms;
• 13,000 SF of amenity space;
• a total density of 5.50 FAR;
• a total building height of 305 ft;
• 310 parking spaces.

The architect for the project is IBI Group.

Ledingham acquired the site in June 2018 for $22,500,000, or $105 per gross buildable SF.

Strand Development has submitted a rezoning application for an assembly of five single family lots totaling 32,198 SF on Fraser Street between East 22nd and East 23rd Avenues in East Vancouver.

The site at 686 East 22nd Avenue, 3811-3833 Fraser Street & 679 East 23rd Avenue is currently zoned RT-2. The rezoning proposal consists of a 6-storey mixed-use building and includes:

• 121 market rental units;
• 10 studios, 60 one-bedrooms, 35 two-bedrooms & 16 three/four-bedrooms;
• 10,818 SF of retail space at grade;
• a density of 3.28 FSR;
• a building height of 71 ft.;
• two levels of underground parking with 108 parking spaces; and
• 159 bicycle spaces.

The application is being considered under the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy.

The architect for the project is Integra Architecture.

Reliance Properties has submitted a development permit application to the City of Vancouver for permission to develop “Tower C” at Burrard Place. The first two towers included a 55-storey residential tower with 444 units, sold out in 2016, and a 130,000 SF office tower on Burrard. The third tower is located mid-block on Hornby Street, at 1261 Hornby. 

The plan for the third tower includes a 35 storey mixed
use building, including the following:

• 206 condo units;
  • 105 one-bedrooms, 100 two-bedrooms and one three-bedroom;
• 27 market rental units;
  • 16 studios and 11 one bedrooms;
• 5,120 SF of retail;
• 40,252 SF of office;
• A building height of 368 ft;
• 9 levels of underground parking accessed from the lane with a total 375 parking spaces.

The application describes the design rationale: “Like most towers in Vancouver, Tower C’s massing is heavily shaped by zoning conditions, which in this case produces a simple volume with a nearly square plan of 36 stories. Our approach to the image of the building therefore has been influenced by this simple prismatic quality and by the fact that the neighboring towers are lighter in overall color and tone. To this end, we have developed a kind of supergrid of “modules”, here articulated by dark gray metals
against low iron glazing, that reads distinctly different than the lighter grids of Tower A and the punched white brick façade of Tower D.

Like cells in an analogue film strip, these modules track up the building in four bays, each slipping past one another, suggesting motion and revealing the “action” within each module. This composition plays in elevation with the symmetry of the typical floor plan through the interlocking material logic of clear / silver glazing systems and the gray metal panel system. To further refine this supergrid, black ceramic frit is used as a kind of graphic tailoring that includes radiused and thickened corners.”

The architects for the project are Neil Denari and IBI Group.

Ledingham McAllister has submitted a rezoning and development permit application to the City of Coquitlam for a 1.50 acre site at the southeast corner of Clarke
Road and Smith Avenue in the Burquitlam area of Coquitlam. The project is entitled “Highpoint“.

The site consists of three lots, two of which are vacant and a third which contains a 2-storey commercial building. The site is designated Transit Village Commercial in the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (BLNP) and is located within the “Core” area in the Transit- Oriented Development Strategy (TDS). The proposed rezoning to CD is based on the C-7 Zone.

Details of the proposal include a 50-storey mixed use tower with a podium and includes:

• 415 residential units:
  • 295 market condo units;
    • 97 one-bedrooms, 168 two-bedrooms;  30 three-bedrooms;
  • 105 purpose built rental units;
  • 15 below / non-market rental units ;
• 7 commercial retail units (16,000 SF);
• a total density of 6.1 FAR;
• a building height of 406 ft.;
• 15,900 SF of market condo common amenity space;
• 8,900 SF of rental unit common amenity space; and
• 527 parking spaces.

The application describes the building program: “The podium fronting Clarke Road is ten storeys in height and is characterized by an eight storey podium atop a double height commercial podium. All CRUs provide abundant transparent windows to ensure views from the street. Levels three through ten of the podium contain all of the 120 proposed rental units. Much of the floor area at the fourth level and adjacent the SkyTrain guide way consists of a bike storage and amenity area. This area will be screened with perforated metal panels, and will have accent lighting.”

The architect for the project is Rositch Hemphill Architects.

Anthem Properties has submitted a rezoning application to the City of North Vancouver for a 28,000 SF site at 143 East 17th Street and 1600 -1640 Eastern Avenue, just East of Lonsdale in the Central Lonsdale neighbourhood. The site sits just East of Anthem’s condo tower project “Local on Lonsdale“, completed in 2013.

The site is designated as Residential Level 6 (High Density) in the OCP, and currently consists of five parcels; each with a building that was constructed between 1954 and 1956. All five buildings combine for a total of 55 rental units.

The plan for the site is a new 13 storey rental apartment building with ground oriented
units at its base. Details include:

• 225 rental units (including 32 at below market rents);
• 24 studios, 134 one-bedrooms, 53 two-bedrooms and 14 three-bedrooms;
• a total density of 3.30 FSR;
• a new 18,595 SF public park on the South end of the site;
• a total building height of 121 feet;
• 177 parking spaces.

The application describes the design rationale: “Attention was placed on the development’s four edges to ensure the relationship between building and street and
the public realm are strengthened. The Eastern Avenue and lane edges strive to promote a friendly pedestrian streetscape and pleasant relationship between resident and the street, to create a sense of entry and privacy for residents. The building edge facing East 17th Avenue is designed to feature an expressive entry element to the
building, a double height volume that is architecturally articulated. The indoor fitness and health amenity space is strategically located to animate the street and lane edge and sits by the entrance for convenient access to promote an active lifestyle.”

The architect for the project is DYS Architecture.