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2950 Prince Edward Street

Posted on February 27, 2024 by ChangingCity

A few years ago, Providence Healthcare sold off the parking lot of Mount Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Now new owners Quadreal have submitted a rezoning for the site under the Broadway Plan. The design is for two towers with 428 market … Continue reading →

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1245 West 10th Avenue

Posted on February 23, 2024 by ChangingCity

Another day, another Broadway Plan rental tower. This is a mid-blopck site, near Birch Street, with 3 older rental buildings with 32 apartments. Stuart Howard has designed a 20 storey tower with 164 apartments, 33 of them to rent at … Continue reading →

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904 Davie Street

Posted on January 18, 2024 by ChangingCity

This newly proposed condo tower has been anticipated for many years. Reliance Holdings have owned the 7-11 here for years, and are currently co-developing an adjacent tower designed by the same architect, Neil Denari. Initially they suggested micro rental units, … Continue reading →

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2285 Cambie Street

Posted on January 4, 2024 by ChangingCity

Robinson Bath & Lighting have had a showroom here for many years, joined on the block ten years ago by South Creek Landing, a condo building (on the right of the render). With the new Broadway SkyTrain prompting a new … Continue reading →

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1551 West 7th Avenue

Posted on December 21, 2023 by ChangingCity

Currently La Maison de la Francophonie (the French cultural centre) occupies a 1985 low-rise building here. In conjunction with developer Candarel, Acton Ostrey have designed a replacement facility with more space, and a 19 storey strata tower on top of … Continue reading →

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111 East 4th Avenue

Posted on November 27, 2023 by ChangingCity

The hybrid office and industrial projects in the Mount Pleasant industrial area have not dried up. Here’s a proposal designed by Acton Ostry for an eight storey building for manufacturing, general office, digital entertainment and information communication technology. It will … Continue reading →

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523 East 10th Avenue

Posted on October 1, 2023 by ChangingCity

GBL have designed this proposed 19 storey rental building, with 175 units, (20% below market), and a 25 space childcare facility, under the Broadway Plan. The project would replace five houses dating from 1905 to the 1930s.

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900 West Georgia Street

Posted on March 2, 2023 by ChangingCity

Those in the know will recognise this as the address of the Hotel Vancouver. There’s a low section of the building on the south side of the hotel, and owners Larco are proposing a 264,000 office building to sit on … Continue reading →

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450 Pacific Boulevard

Posted on February 23, 2023 by ChangingCity

Here’s the third False Creek North social housing site. This one didn’t require a revised rezoning as it’s a 7-storey building where something of a similar scale is already contemplated in the approved plan. Designed by Public Architecture, it has … Continue reading →

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990 Beatty Street

Posted on February 23, 2023 by ChangingCity

Here’s the second of the False Creek North social housing sites, this one designed by Francl Architecture. It’s a 28-storey social housing building including 283 units of social housing with 2 levels of underground parking. The development includes a new … Continue reading →

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