By ChangingCity

Grace Court is a 1912 7-storey 26 unit concrete apartment building designed by R MacKay Fripp for D D Hutchinson. When it was built it cost $40,000 and filled just over half the lot it sits on. Recent changes to the West End zoning from the West End Plan allow an infill building on the remainder of the site. (Generally the infill is allowed on the lane, although in this case it’s the end lot so it will be addressed as 1071 Cardero Street).

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Source:: Changing City Updates

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.