The formal rezoning application has been submitted for the White Spot site on West Georgia Street at Cardero Street. The long anticipated application calls to rezone 1608-1616 West Georgia Street to allow for the redevelopment of the site for two 38-storey luxury condo towers.

The site sold in 2017 for $245 Million in an off-market transaction to Carnival International Holdings in partnership with Aspac.

The proposal is for two residential towers above a 4-storey podium, including:

• 455 condo units;
  • 216 one-bedrooms, 179 two bedrooms, 56 three-bedrooms & 4 townhouses;
• A total density of 9.60 FSR;
• Six levels of underground parking with 503 vehicle parking stalls and 911 bicycle parking spaces.

This application is being considered under the West End Community Plan and the Rezoning Policy for the West End.

The architects for the project are Pelli Clarke Pelli in partnership with IBI Group.

The full rezoning application can be viewed here: https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1608-1616WGeorgia/index.htm

Donald Trump, who first found fame as a real-estate developer, has put his name on mens’ fragrance, mattresses and neckties in recent years. But there is one type of product he hasn’t licensed his name to since the beginning of the financial downturn: a U.S. building.

The last time Mr. Trump signed a deal licensing his name to a U.S. real-estate project was in 2007, when he agreed to put it on the Trump Soho, a hotel-condo project in downtown Manhattan. He also sold his name to a golf resort in Puerto Rico in 2008.

It isn’t that Mr. Trump has lost his taste for seeing his name stamped in capital letters on other developers’ undertakings. He is just doing it overseas instead. In recent years, Mr. Trump has licensed his name to more than a dozen real-estate developers in Turkey, the Caucuses, Brazil and other corners of the globe.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump is expected to unveil plans for a Trump-branded hotel and condominium tower in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, according to executives familiar with the project.

Plans for Trump-branded condominiums, resorts and commercial centers also are under way in the Philippines and Azerbaijan. In March, Trump Organization opened an office in Shanghai to identify Chinese branding deals for the company.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323836504578553492930645794.html

After more than a year constructing the underground parkade, construction at the site of the new luxury hotel/residential project at 1153 West Georgia Street, has reached grade level. Sales are expected commence later this year. The developer, Holborn Group, had originally anticipated completion by 2010, but the project was delayed.

Trump Tower Vancouver Construction, picture by Built Form (SSP)

Trump Tower Vancouver Construction, picture by Built Form (SSP)