Bonnis Properties has submitted their formal application for 526 Granville Street, a 6,000 SF DD zoned site located on the East side of Granville between West Pender and West Hastings.

The site is currently improved with a 3-storey heritage commercial building.

The proposal for the site is a 24-storey office building that includes:

• 123,193 SF of office space;
• 2,573 SF of retail space at grade;
• A total density of 20.98 FSR;
• A building height of 335 ft.;
• retention of existing heritage facade;
• Payment -in-lieu parking spaces and 95 bicycle parking spaces.

The application is being considered under the Downtown Official Development Plan.

The architect for the project is Perkins + Will.

A development application has been submitted for the full city block site at the Southwest corner of East 1st Avenue and Clark Drive in East Vancouver.

The proposed project is a speculative mixed use industrial and office project preliminarily called “1st & Clark”. The 5-storey building will be a horseshoe shape and include units for smaller downtown wholesale and light industrial users.

Details of the project include:

• wholesale uses on the main to second floor;
• general offices on the third to fifth floors;
• 197,948 SF of gross floor area;
• a total density of 3.0 FSR;
• a building height of 72 ft.; and
• 220 underground parking spaces on one underground level.

Under the site’s existing I-2 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning.

The architect for the project is TKA+D Architecture + Design Inc. 

Reliance Properties has submitted a development application to rehab and expand a building that they own at 837 Beatty Street in Downtown Vancouver.

The plan includes preserving the existing 2-storey heritage warehouse/office building constructed in 1911, and adding three additional floors of office space. The site is zoned DD is 6,992 SF.

A previous proposal for a 26-storey residential tower was not supported by the City due in part to shadowing on Terry Fox Plaza.

Details include:

• retail uses on the ground floor;
• office uses on the 2nd to 5th floors;
• rooftop amenity space;
• a total building area of 39,000 SF;
• modern mass timber beams and columns and laminated timber floors;
• steel elements to provide code compliant lateral resistance;
• a building height of 90 ft.;
• a density of 5.50 FSR including a 10% heritage density bonus;
• loading is located in the lower level having vehicular access from the lane.

Under the site’s existing DD zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Development Permit Board.

Reliance acquired the site in 2015 for $9,880,000.

The architect for the project is OMB Architects.