A new light industrial/office building is being planned for a mid-block site on Railway Street, in an area East of Main Street along the CN Rail tracks. The plan for the 132′ x 53′ (6,584 SF), M-2 zoned site is for a 6-storey building including:

• retail on the ground floor, manufacturing on floors 2, 4 & 5, wholesaling on the third floor and office space on the 6th floor
• a total density of 5.0 FSR
• a building height of 100 ft.
• 3 levels of underground parking
• no building setbacks

Considered Design Inc., the landscape architect for the project, has some renderings on their website, including the one below.

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

A development application has been made to the City of Vancouver for permission to redevelop a prime downtown corner. The site is located at the Northwest corner of Granville and Davie, and is most well-known as “Tsui Hang“, a popular late night Chinese restaurant. Tsui Hang is located in what was once a bank, built in the 1940s. The balance of the site contains older run-down one and two-storey commercial buildings. The developer is Deecorp. The architect is MCMP.

Preliminary plans call for a redeveloped site include a 7-storey mixed use building. The proposal includes the following:

• 94 residential units (75 one-bedrooms and 19 2-bedrooms)
• Retail on the ground floor;
• Total density of 3.85 FSR (3.5 max + 10% heritage bonus)
• Building height of 71 ft.
• Total floor area of 69,300 SF
• 47 underground parking spaces accessed from the lane

An existing C-2 zoned strip retail building at the corner of Oak Street and Laurier Avenue (one block North of King Edward) is proposed for redevelopment to allow a 4-storey building with retail uses on the ground floor and 11 residential units above, all over two levels of underground parking. Details for this 12,819 SF site include:

• Total density of 29,100 SF or 2.27 FSR (less than 2.5 max due to site restrictions)
• Top floor has two 2,000 SF units targeting downsizers
• Each unit gets two parking stalls
• Concrete construction with high quality interior and exterior finishes

The site was acquired by Xpec Oak Holdings Ltd. in 2014 for $7,900,000, or $271 per buildable SF based on the proposed density.

Smart REIT (formerly Calloway REIT) has acquired Haney Place Mall, one of Maple Ridge’s largest enclosed shopping centres, for $57,600,000. The mall is 190,000 SF and is located in the town centre area of Maple Ridge. It was originally built in 1981 and renovated in 1993. Anchors include Thrifty Foods and a soon to be opened Walmart in the now vacant Target space. Rexall is one of the more recent tenants. The seller was Vancouver based Narland Properties.

Further detail regarding the sale can be found in this Maple Ridge News article.