By ChangingCity

This Downtown Eastside rezoning project on East Hastings was first mentioned here at the end of 2012. The original rezoning version was designed by Perkins + Will for the Atira Development Society, with two floors of commercial space and twelve of residential above that. The housing mix was complex; there were 169 units with a mix of self-contained rental units; Housing Income Limits units and affordable home ownership units, some guaranteed as rental units for a minimum of 15 years. That’s the render of the first version below.

Now that the rezoning has been approved there’s a revised version submitted for a Development Permit with a new design by IBI Group. The deign has a more glazed appearance, and it now includes 198 units, still maintaining a mix of market and non-market housing over retail. It was given unanimous support by the Urban Design Panel.

It sits next door to the Lux, a BC Housing funded scheme completed in 2009 and designed by GBL. It will replace a modest 3 storey building, best known as the recent home of United We Can which has moved to the False Creek Flats.

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Source: Changing City

The days are numbered for a popular hangout for Simon Fraser University students after Burnaby council gave the go-ahead for a redevelopment proposal.

Council gave approval in principle to a rezoning application for the property at 7174 Barnet Rd., at Pandora Street, currently home of the Mountain Shadow Pub.

The proposal is for a three-storey, mixed-use project with a small commercial space on the ground floor, 21 stacked townhouse units and underground parking, with vehicle access from Barnet Road.

Four speakers appeared at the June 24 public hearing and city hall received five letters about the proposal, said a city staff report. They raised issues including traffic, the closure of the pub, privacy, existing trees on the site, and vehicle and fire access.

Read more: http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/269083941.html

By ChangingCity

Here’s another development proposal for a narrow site in the Downtown Eastside. Christopher Bozyk Architects has designed this 9-storey 60 unit project for a fifty feet wide lot next door to Stan Douglas’s artists studio (that was built about five years ago). We first featured it 18 months ago when details of the design were first released.

Our revised render shows the version now illustrated on the sales website, and there are signs on site that construction might commence soon. The project has two floors of commercial space and a shared landscaped rooftop garden, and the developer is Port Capital Group who are building the interestingly designed 2211 Cambie project now called South Creek Landing.

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Source: Changing City

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