A rezoning application has been filed for a currently vacant site at 619 West Hastings Street for a new office tower. The 52 ft x 120 ft site is sandwiched between two office buildings, with the Royal Bank Building (675 West Hastings) located immediately to the West at Granville and Hastings. The proposal also includes the upgrade and heritage designation of the Royal Bank Building, also controlled by the same owner as the vacant lot.

The proposal for the vacant site is for a new 28-storey office building that includes:

• 150,837 SF of office space
• Typical floorplates of 5,400-5,800 SF
• Overall height of 330 ft.
• Density of 25.5 FSR
• Five levels of underground parking with 67 vehicle parking spaces
• Seismic upgrade and heritage designation of the exterior façade of the RBC Building at 675 West Hastings Street
• Structural concept including sharing of lateral force resisting system between the two buildings
• A light-well created between the two buildings to provide access to light and air for office occupants.

Current Site Condition

Typical tower floorplan

The application is being considered under the Rezoning Policy for the Central Business District (CBD) and CBD Shoulder, the Metro Core Jobs and Economy Land Use Plan and the Downtown (Except Downtown South) Design Guidelines.

The architect for the project is Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership. MCM is the preeminent local firm for new office projects in the Downtown core.

Anthem Properties is seeking approval at City of North Vancouver council for a Development Application for a mixed use development at 177 West 3rd Street, a former gas station and car wash that has been sitting vacant for several years due to remediation work. The site is located on the Southeast corner of 3rd Street and Chesterfield, just West of Lonsdale.

The proposed new development includes a 5-storey concrete condo building, including:

• 55 condo units
• 10,000 SF of ground floor retail space
• a total density of 2.68 FSR
• total building height of 52.50 ft
• one and a half levels of underground parking with 74 total stalls
• a CAC of $2,383,720, equivalent to $30 per SF

The site is located in an area designated in the OCP as Mixed Use Level 3, which permits 2.30 FSR density with provision for a bonus density of an additional 0.50 FSR that may be granted at council discretion.

Cressey Development Group has filed an application to rezone a 12,169 SF site that they own at the corner of West 1st Avenue and Cook Street, just West of Olympic Village. The site sits directly East of their previously completed project “The James”.

The plan calls to rezone from the M-2 industrial zone to CD to permit the development of a 10-storey rental residential building, including:

• 104 rental apartment units
• 51 studio units, 27 one-bedrooms, 20 two-bedrooms and 6 three-bedrooms
• a total density of 5.03 FSR
• a building height of 99 feet
• 50 underground parking spaces

The application is being considered under the Southeast False Creek Official Development Plan and Secured Market Rental Housing (Rental 100) Policy.

Cressey acquired the site in December 2015 for $16,000,000, or $261 per buildable SF based on the expected rezoning.

The architect for the project is Chris Dikeakos Architects.

Marcon and Kevington Building Corp. have jointly filed an application to consolidate and rezone a group of lots located at 559, 567, 571, 577 and 581 Clarke Road from CS-l Service Commercial and CS-2 Limited Commercial to C-7 Transit Village Commercial to allow a new highrise condo and rental residential development. The combined site is 76,922 SF in size.

The proposal is being made under the policies in the Burquitlam Neighbourhood Plan and envisions development of transit-oriented and supportive residential density in close proximity to the Burquitlam Evergreen Line Station, which is across the street.

The development proposal includes:

• a 49-storey condo tower with 364 units
• a 15-storey rental tower with 101 units
• commercial retail units fronting Clarke Road
• total combined density of 5.43 FSR
• underground parking accessed from the lane
• 620 total parking spaces
• a $576,914 CAC + $6.9 Million in contributions to public amenities

The site will be resubdivided into two fee simple parcels; one for the market tower and the other for the rental building. The application also involves transferring the density from 559 Clarke Road to the market tower portion of the project. Formerly the location of the Burquitlam Animal Hospital, Marcon has acquired this site to help facilitate a full two-way intersection at Clarke Road and the narrow street that runs behind the development. This will increase the extent of full two-way traffic through the narrow street This street will be fully constructed and complete when the adjoining parcel at 565 Clarke Road redevelops.

The architect for the project is GBL Architects.

A rezoning application has been filed for a new rental apartment development in the Central Lonsdale area of the City of North Vancouver. The proposal is for 154 East 18th Street,  an existing 31 unit lowrise rental building built in 1964 at the northeast corner of East 18th Street and St. George’s Avenue. The lot is 24,880 SF with a frontage 182 feet and a depth of 137 feet. The existing zoning is RM-1.

The plan for the site is to demolish the existing building and replace it with a new 6-storey woodframe rental building, including:

• 96 rental apartment units (a net gain of 65 units)
• 9 studios, 56 one-bedrooms, 17 two-bedrooms, 14 three-bedrooms
• a total density of 2.60 FAR (64,650 SF)
• one level of underground parking for tenants (56 spaces)

The proposed development has been designed to minimize the impact of the new building on the existing neighbourhood, particularly for properties to the east of St. George’s Avenue, which have lower land use designations in the OCP. On the St. George’s Avenue frontage, the building height is designed to appear as five storeys, with an additional storey sunken below grade, and is further reduced to two storeys at the northeast corner of the site.

Further, the proposal includes the provision of 10 units at below market rents to assist the City’s housing affordability goals. Termed “Mid-Market Rental” (MMR) units, the aim of MMR units is to retain affordability for renters, while renewing and adding to the supply of new rental housing in the City.

The architect for the project is Metric Architecture.