I am pleased to announce the sale of 1609 Cypress Street, a 16-unit apartment building in Kits. The building was sold to a local investor for $4,400,000.

Orr Development has applied to rezone a site at the Southwest corner of 49th and Main Street from C-2 to CD-1. The plan is calls for a rezoning of the site under the Rental 100 program to allow a 6-storey apartment building building that includes:

• 75 secured market rental units;
• retail space at grade
• a building height of 70.2 ft. from grade;
• a density of 3.60 FSR, and
• 80 underground parking spaces and 97 bicycle parking spaces

I am pleased to have acted on behalf of the Vendor in the sale of Cranberry Lane, an 88-unit apartment complex in the Hamilton area of Richmond.

A rezoning application in North Vancouver intends to replace two low-density apartment buildings with a new 6-storey rental apartment building and could be a good model for other rental projects in the City of North Vancouver and elsewhere in the Lower Mainland.

The proposal for the 12,014 SF site at 362-368 East 3rd Street is to replace two older apartment buildings with a combined total of 11 apartments, with 40 rental units in a new 6-storey building. The proposed density is 2.6 FSR per the recently adopted OCP for the area. The plan includes only 9 parking stalls on the surface at the rear of the new building.

The unit mix includes:

• Nine 3-bedroom units
• Ten 2-bedroom units
• Six 1-bedroom units
• Fifteen studio unit

Because the proposed project is 100% secured rental housing, there will be no community amenity contribution.

Current Site Condition

The application is still preliminary and requires council approval to move through the standard rezoning process.

A 45-unit Richmond apartment complex known as Cook Place Apartments has sold for $11,700,000 to a local investor. The price represents $260,000 per unit and a cap rate of 3.3%. The property is ideally situated near the City Centre area of Richmond, just one and half blocks East of Richmond Centre Mall and a short walk to the Canada Line.

The building itself is a 3-storey woodframe building built in 1979, with underground parking. There are 30 Two-Bedroom units and 15 One-Bedroom units. Rents were approximately 10% under market. The property was listed with an asking price of $11,888,000.