A rezoning application has been submitted to the City of Richmond for permission to rezone a 3.14 acre site in the West Cambie area for a new mixed-use development. The site comprises an assembly of six single family lots (all demolished and vacant) at 9080, 9086, 9100, 9180 Odlin Road and 4420, 4440 Garden City Road.

The subject site is designated “Mixed Use Employment-Residential” in the Alexandra Neighbourhood Land Use Map of the West Cambie Area Plan.

The proposed rezoning would permit the development of a 4-storey commercial building fronting Garden City Road and two 5-storey residential buildings facing Odlin Road and Dubbert Street, all over a common parkade.

Details include:

• 174 total residential units, including:
  • 9 affordable housing units;
  • 15 Modest Market Rent Controlled Units, and;
  • 17 Market Rental units.
• 13,260 SF of retail
• 50,763 SF of office;
• a total density of 1.88 FAR;
• 224 residential and 164 commercial parking stalls.

The architect for the project is GBL Architects.

The site was assembled in 2016 for $19,017,500, or $84 per buildable SF based on the application.

A development application has been submitted for a 24,156 SF I-1 zoned site at the Southeast corner of West 4th Avenue and Columbia Street in Mount Pleasant. The site is currently improved with an older industrial building and surface parking lot at the corner.

Plans for the site include a new 4-storey building with mezzanine mixed-use building. Including:

• three levels of office over one level of wholesale space;
• 109,485 SF of total space;
• 73,443 SF of office space;
• 36,497 SF of wholesale space;
• a total density of 3.0 FSR;
• a building height of 60 ft.;
• two levels of underground parking.

Under the site’s existing I-1 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning.

The architect for the project is Taylor Kurtz.

A development application has been submitted by PortLiving for ‘Railtown Station’, a project at 711 Alexander Street, a triangular shaped site in Railtown totaling 11,438 SF in size. The site is bounded by CP railway tracks to the North and the Heatley Avenue overpass to the West.

Plans for the site include a new 7-storey light manufacturing, office, mixed use building including:

• 48,238 SF of manufacturing space;
• 5,380 SF of office space;
• 3,572 SF of retail space;
• A total density of 5.0 FSR;
• A proposed height of 104 ft.; and
• Three levels of underground parking providing 56 parking spaces having vehicular access from Heatley Avenue.

Under the site’s existing M-2 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning.

The project had been pre-leasing through Avison Young under a previous design plan for the site:

The architect for the project is Formosis Architecture.

The site was acquired by PortLiving in 2017 for $5,100,000 or $89 per buildable SF based on the application.

8171 Cook Road, a 26,000 SF, 3-storey concrete office building in Richmond has sold for $25,000,000 to TPMG Capital.

The building is located at the northwest corner of Cook Road and Buswell Street and is designated as Urban Core T6 in the City of Richmond’s City Centre Area Plan.

A rezoning application has been submitted for a site in Mount Pleasant that was previously approved for rezoning under Rental 100.

445 Kingsway and 2935 St. George Street, currently the Destination Hyundai dealership, received rezoning approval from City of Vancouver council in 2016 for a 109-unit rental apartment project with a new Honda dealership at grade. The rezoning was never enacted, and a new application has surfaced in its place.

The new application is being made under the City’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, which allows proposals up to 14-storeys on arterials. The existing 46,576 SF site is zoned C-2.

The proposal calls for two 14-storey towers above a podium, and includes:

• 215 rental units (with 20% of the residential floor area assigned to moderate income households);
• 54 studios, 86 one-bedrooms, 54 two-bedrooms & 21 three-bedrooms;
• 31,000 SF of retail and office space;
• 96,000 SF commercial car wash and vehicle storage in the underground parkade;
• a total density of 4.84 FSR (above grade);
• a building height of 150 ft.; and
• 224 underground parking stalls and 443 bike spaces (including underground vehicle storage).

The commercial car wash is intended to serve the nearby Kingsway Honda dealership and service centre located at the Stella mixed-use development at Kingsway and East 12th Avenue.

The application is being considered under the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program.

The architect for the project is Acton Ostry.