1477 West Broadway

Now renumbered to 1477 (from 1465) there’s an earlier development permit for a modest office building at the corner of Granville and Broadway, replacing the 1957 office that was there before. It was already under construction in 2020, but there’s now an approved rezoning for a tower here, with rental residential units on the upper floors. (There was a residential lobby shown on the plans of the office). The corner is the location of a future Transit Station on the western extension of SkyTrain (initially to Arbutus), and both designs included the station entrance.

There are already over 300 parking spaces in a 6-storey underground parkade. MCM designed the podium office and retail space to allow the station to be built, and have quickly submitted the development application for the 40-storey tower as the building is already underway. It has 226 suites, (20% to be leased at below market rent). The amount of office space increased in the tower proposal to 100,000 sq. ft., in five storeys, over a second floor grocery store (something that’s missing from the neighbourhood). The building will be 422 feet high.