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.