Manulife Financial’s 270,000 square foot proposed office development unanimously (8-0)passed Urban Design Panel on October 24th.  The project, which is located at the Howe Street and Nelson Street intersection, will be 16 storeys tall and have retail at grade.  980 Howe Street is in the pre-leasing phase and could be completed by 2015.

Other projects that were voted on at the October 24th meeting included:

2477 Carolina Street by Royal East Broadway Development: 2 votes for, 7 votes against

557 East Cordova Street by Boffo Properties: 9 votes for, 0 against

1729-1735 East 33rd Avenue by Cedar Cottage Cohousing Company: 2 votes for, 6 votes against

Westbank Projects, in partnership with Ivanhoe Cambridge have applied to the City of Vancouver to rezone Oakridge Centre to develop a 45-storey mixed-use development consisting of 1,430,000 SF of retail, 425,000 SF of office space, 45,000 SF of amenity space, and 2,700,000 SF of residential, with a total density of 3.54 FSR. The proposal includes 2,818 units with a maximum height of 412 ft., and 6,694 parking spaces. Henriquez Partners is the Architect for the project.

The proposed rezoning has been in the works since 2007 when the Oakridge Policy Statement was adopted. More recently, Westbank has been brought on and a planning program was developed in 2012 to help guide the rezoning process.

Model View looking East

More information can be found HERE.

Richmond Review – Towers, not sausages, eyed for Grimms site.

A longtime sausage factory in the heart of City Centre will be flattened and three residential towers will rise from the rubble, if council approves a new development plan.

Council gave first reading to a rezoning proposal Monday that would allow 237 homes and 4,370 square feet of commercial space on the site of Grimms Fine Foods.

Read more: http://www.richmondreview.com/news/176041481.html