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Apartment, Condo, Development

60-Storey Tower Proposed for Nelson Street Site

A rezoning application has been filed for 1059-1075 Nelson Street, a two-lot assembly sold previously by our team. The plan calls to rezone the existing two lowrise apartment buildings for redevelopment in order to permit the development of a 60-storey residential building. The site sits immediately West of the Butterfly project by Westbank, now in excavation.

The rezoning proposal includes:

  • 485 residential units:
      • 113 social housing units;
      • 49 market rental units;
      • 323 market condo units;
  • a building height of 555.5 ft. (585.5 ft. to the top of appurtenance)
  • a total density of 24.94 FSR;
  • 8 levels of underground parking with 299 vehicle parking spaces and 1000 Class A bicycle parking spaces and 26 Class B bicycle spaces.

This application is being considered under the West End Community Plan, Rezoning Policy for the West End, and the General Policy for Higher Buildings.

The architect for the project is IBI Group.

April 10, 2019by david.taylor@colliers.com
Apartment, Condo, Development

Redevelopment of South Vancouver YMCA to Include 158 Condo Units

A rezoning application has been for the Langara Family YMCA property at West 49th Avenue and Alberta Street. The site sits just West of Langara College, and North of Langara Golf Course. 

The redevelopment of the 87,103 SF site at 282 West 49th Avenue entails rezoning an existing CD zone, to allow complete redevelopment of the existing YMCA facility to double the scale of the facility. The redevelopment concept has been consulting with the community and facility users for over a year.

The proposal consists of:

  • a 5-storey YMCA replacement facility, including childcare, recreation (fitness, gym, and aquatic facilities), community spaces, and a cafe;
  • a 13-storey non-market residential building containing 70 units;
    • 11-studios, 24 one-bedrooms, 26 two-bedrooms & 9 three-bedrooms;
  • a 20-storey market residential building containing 158 condo units;
    • 41 one-bedrooms, 85 two-bedrooms & 32 three-bedrooms;
  • a total density of 3.53 FSR;
  • Total buildings heights of 198 ft. for the condo tower, and 145 ft. for the non-market tower.
  • underground parking with 339 vehicle parking spaces and 545 bicycle parking spaces.

This rezoning application is being considered under the Cambie Corridor Plan.

The YMCA of Greater Vancouver anticipates that construction would start in 2021 and be completed in 2023.

The architect for the project is Stantec.

The full rezoning application can be viewed here: https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/282w49thave/index.htm

March 27, 2019by david.taylor@colliers.com
Apartment, Development

63-Rental Units Proposed for St. Marks Church Site in Kits

Jameson Development Corp. has submitted a rezoning application for the former St. Mark’s Church site in Kitsilano at 1805 Larch Street. The site was sold by Colliers in May 2018 for $11,998,000.

The 150’x 118′ site is currently zoned RT-8. The rezoning proposes to permit the development of a new 5-storey rental residential building, including:

    • 63 rental units with a minimum of 20% of the residential floor area permanently secured for moderate income households;
      • 19 studios, 16 one-bedrooms, 20 two-bedrooms & 8 three-bedrooms;
    • a total density of 2.55 FSR;
    • a building height of 66 ft.; and
    • 56 underground parking spaces and 113 bicycle spaces.

This application is being considered under the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP). This policy requires that at least 20% of the residential floor area (of total FSR) is to be made available to households earning between $30,000 & $80,000 per annum. 

The architect for the project is Metric Architecture.

The full rezoning application can be viewed here: https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1805larchst/index.htm

February 26, 2019by david.taylor@colliers.com
Apartment, Development, Retail

104-Unit Rental Building Proposed for Fraser & 19th

Rize Alliance has submitted a rezoning application for a site at the corner of Fraser Street and East 19th Avenue in East Vancouver. The site, currently zoned C-2, is currently developed with an older 2-storey commercial building and a parking lot. 

The proposal calls for a new 6-storey rental building, including:

    • 104 market rental units;
      • 33 studios, 32 one-bedrooms, 28 two-bedrooms & 11 three-bedrooms;
    • 13,027 SF of retail space;
    • a total density of 3.43 FSR;
    • a building height of 71 ft.; and
    • 112 underground parking spaces and 213 bicycle spaces.

This application is being considered under the Secured Market Rental Housing (Rental 100) Policy.

The architect for the project is Yamamoto Architecture.

February 22, 2019by david.taylor@colliers.com
Apartment, Condo, Development, Office, Retail

Onni Submits Application for Three Tower Coquitlam Centre Project

Onni has submitted their rezoning and development permit application a large scale mixed-use development on a primarily vacant site at the Southeast corner Pinetree Way and Glen Drive in Coquitlam City Centre. The 2.7 acre site is vacant and was partially previously owned by the City of Coquitlam. The site sits just 500 feet from Lincoln Skytrain Station.

Directly to the East is another application for a 40-storey tower by Polygon at 1108 Westwood Street. The two sites were acquired via public sale of the lands in 2016.

The site can be rezoned per the City Centre Area Plan from City Centre
Commercial (C-4) and One-Family Residential (RS-l) to CD-11 Comprehensive
Development (CD-ll), based on the C-4 Zone, and the overall development plan includes three residential towers over retail and office space. Details include:

  • Towers of 49, 45 and 25-storeys above a podium;
  • 891 residential units
    • 705 condos;
      • 321 one-bedrooms, 289 two-bedrooms & 95 three-bedrooms;
    • 186 market rental units;
      • 40 studios, 66 one-bedrooms, 49 two-bedrooms & 31 three-bedrooms;
  • 17,000 SF of retail space;
  • 46,520 SF of office space on floors 2-5 of the podium;
  • a total density of 7.32 FAR;
  • total tower heights of 514 ft, 472 ft and 258 ft. respectively;
  • 67,000 SF of common amenity space;
  • An 8,500 SF daycare;
  • 1,329 parking spaces;
  • $31 Million in density bonus funds and CACs.

The architect for the project is Cicozzi Architecture.

February 1, 2019by david.taylor@colliers.com
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David Taylor is a Senior Vice President at Colliers International in Vancouver, BC, specializing in the sale of commercial real estate across Metro Vancouver. He has sold over $1.7 Billion in office buildings, retail properties, apartment buildings and development land since 2004.

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