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

Bosa Properties has submitted an application to amend the existing CD-1 zoning for 1575 West Georgia to permit a 26-storey tower on the site, currently a 3-storey office building. The plan is for:

• a 26-storey residential tower
• a density of 10.83 FSR;
• a total of 184 residential units;
• ground-level commercial space;
• three floors of office space;
• seven levels of underground parking;
• a total height of 265 ft.

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

After months of speculation about a potential sale, Morguard has officially completed the sale of 1500 West Georgia Street to Bosa Properties (1500 Holdco) Inc. for a reported $120,500,000.

The 193,000 SF A Class office building sits on a very valuable and partially underutilized 43,320 SF, full-block site at the Southeast corner of West Georgia and Cardero and has been a landmark in Vancouver since it was built in the late 1970’s.

Any future redevelopment plans of the plaza area are not known at this time.

Aerial View of 1500 West Georgia