Burnaby NewsLeader – Plan to create ‘new heart in Edmonds’ launched.

A development “to create a new heart to Edmonds Town Centre” is being proposed for the Value Village property at Kingsway and Edmonds.

Cressey Developments has applied to the City of Burnaby to have the large, triangular property rezoned so it can build a project that contains office, residential and commercial space.

Read more: http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/164456536.html

Richmond Review – Another trio of high-rises proposed for oval village.

City staff are recommending approval of another set of high-rises in the oval village, but the latest proposal will force some civic bureaucrats out of the neighbourhood.

Hollybridge Limited Partnership is seeking to rezone 5440 Hollybridge Way, a site across the street from the Richmond Olympic Oval whose current tenants include city staff.

For more on this story: http://www.richmondreview.com/news/162947496.html

Vancouver’s Shannon Mews eyeing first permit.

The application for phase one of the Shannon Estate development at 57th and Granville goes before the city’s Development Permit Board July 16.

Council approved the rezoning of the Shannon Mews site almost a year ago—at 2 a.m., July 29—following three days of contentious hearings that went late into the night. Of the 179 people registered to speak, 85 were opposed, four were classified as “other,” seven were in support and 83 didn’t speak.