A number of development applications have begun popping up in the West End; partially a result of the West End Community Plan that was adopted by the City of Vancouver in late 2013.

Most of these projects, including a site I sold at 1546 Nelson Street earlier this year, have an underutilized land area such as a surface parking lot or oversize backyard.

Here are  few that have come up for application this summer:

1546 Nelson Street  (sold in February for $2,050,000)

1071 Cardero Street

1529 Comox Street

An application has been made to rezone a 23,347 SF site consisting of an assembly of single family lots at 126-168 East 35th Avenue from RS-1 to CD-1. The proposal, being made under the Little Mountain Adjacent Area Rezoning Policy, is for a 6-storey apartment building and a 1-storey building along the lane that includes:

• 48 residential units;
• a density of 2.3 FAR;
• 60 underground parking spaces

The Inverness Apartments located at 1325 Pendrell Street in the West End has sold for $5,170,000, or $246,224 per unit. The two-storey,  21-unit heritage style building was listed for sale back in May for $5,275,000, or a 3.5% cap rate.