Broadway Corridor Updates

[hollywoodnorth]

The Art Deco at 1470 West Broadway runs deeper than surface decoration. Those bronze vertical fins on the podium aren't ornamental — they create an actual structural rhythm, the same pinstripe effect you see on the great 1920s towers. The setbacks at the upper levels push the eye upward, which is exactly what the original Deco architects were going for. The signage is worked directly into the vertical piers too, the way old department stores and movie palaces used to do it, not bolted on as an afterthought. Even the South Granville Station entrance carries it through — clean geometric grid, very Streamline Moderne. It's a contemporary building, but the bones are unmistakable. I give this a 9.5/10 - LOVE IT!

[urbanight93]

What an insult to the memory of art deco. Not even a setback? Or detailing? And the tacked on haphazard balconies? Bewildering

[PBlonde]

Originally Posted by urbanight93

What an insult to the memory of art deco. Not even a setback? Or detailing? And the tacked on haphazard balconies? Bewildering

Unfortunately I think step codes in Vancouver are going to make most balconies on newly built towers look like they're tacked on after to improve thermal efficiency.

[madog222]

They’ve already submitted a demo permit for the now former Jordan’s Furniture building at the site.

[jollyburger]

Groundbreaking for the Qualex-Landmark project at Kingsway/Fraser

https://www.instagram.com/p/DV19_vYk6_s/?img_index=1

[jollyburger]

Now they're complaining about not being able to cash in on their properties. Life struggles of a boomer.

https://bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/broadway-plan-vancouver-homeowners-lottery-land-assembly/

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Now they're complaining about not being able to cash in on their properties. Life struggles of a boomer.

https://bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/broadway-plan-vancouver-homeowners-lottery-land-assembly/

The sign of a broken housing market. These aren’t “homes” anymore they’ve become “development opportunities”.

[Glow Fun City]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Now they're complaining about not being able to cash in on their properties. Life struggles of a boomer.

https://bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/broadway-plan-vancouver-homeowners-lottery-land-assembly/

A bit odd that they lead off with a picture of Senakw, which has nothing to do with the Broadway Plan? Or are they just trying to get nimbys interested?

[Alex Mackinnon]

They missed the boat. Properties are going for under 2021 assessed values now, and that's ignoring inflation. Sucks to suck.

[csbvan]

This is why the Broadway Plan and others like it are so good. Properties don't sell for gold rush amounts of money, because developable properties are more widespread. Dime a dozen now!

[GenWhy?]

"The Broadway Plan super-sized that dynamic. The city’s new Villages plan will produce more of that phenomenon, but likely in a more orderly way as the city reverts to a system of clustering density tightly in certain key spots—around transit or commercial nodes—rather than randomly everywhere in a huge area."

Glad we get these pieces from Bula ahead of the upcoming election. Her sense, to me, of what constitutes as "order" and "random" is interesting.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Glow Fun City

A bit odd that they lead off with a picture of Senakw, which has nothing to do with the Broadway Plan? Or are they just trying to get nimbys interested?

It's supposedly going to kill Kits Point land values.

If it’s a block away, generally, the impact is less, except in one area, he said: Kits Point. Although it’s a few blocks outside the northern Broadway Plan boundary, it does have 11 towers at the Sen̓áḵw development theoretically going up nearby. Pospischil said he has seen properties go from selling at $3.5 million to not being able to get anything more than the high twos.

[Glow Fun City]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

It's supposedly going to kill Kits Point land values.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

"The Broadway Plan super-sized that dynamic. The city’s new Villages plan will produce more of that phenomenon, but likely in a more orderly way as the city reverts to a system of clustering density tightly in certain key spots—around transit or commercial nodes—rather than randomly everywhere in a huge area."

Glad we get these pieces from Bula ahead of the upcoming election. Her sense, to me, of what constitutes as "order" and "random" is interesting.

Agreed. As if the Broadway subway randomly meanders.

[mcj]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

"The Broadway Plan super-sized that dynamic. The city’s new Villages plan will produce more of that phenomenon, but likely in a more orderly way as the city reverts to a system of clustering density tightly in certain key spots—around transit or commercial nodes—rather than randomly everywhere in a huge area."

Glad we get these pieces from Bula ahead of the upcoming election. Her sense, to me, of what constitutes as "order" and "random" is interesting.

How she is running with OneCity astounds me after reading that. Isn't their entire ethos upzone the whole city? Which would result in development everywhere in a huge area?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Agreed. As if the Broadway subway randomly meanders.

They should make a new subway line that randomly goes around the city and stop in random locations.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Agreed. As if the Broadway subway randomly meanders.

I think the idea she has is concentric circles around stations, like the TOD legislation from the province. The plan delineates a long rectangle running east-west between 16th and 2nd that allows similar towers at the outer edges to those closer to the stations. You end up with surprising density in locations on 2nd or 16th for example, between stations, that are a fair distance from the transit and quite a bit more than the provincial legislation would require.

[Glow Fun City]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

They should make a new subway line that randomly goes around the city and stop in random locations.

Reminds me of the BAIT (Burn Area Imprecise Transit) at Burning Man…

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by mcj

How she is running with OneCity astounds me after reading that. Isn't their entire ethos upzone the whole city? Which would result in development everywhere in a huge area?

I understand she is on board with the OneCity platform idea (that is largely the upcoming Villages and Neighbourhood Centre updates to the ODP) that more small-scale apartments and expanded commercial spaces be spread across the city.

The Broadway Plan wasn't in any party's platform, but I guess is now a part of the ODP's Rapid Transit Areas, as she appears to be against to breadth of the Broadway Plan (as it goes beyond the TOA policy) and agrees with the toned-down version presented in the TOA policy, which is now the core element of the that Rapid Transit Area section of the ODP. Even though 16th Ave is like a 10 minute walk from Broadway, and the southern edge of the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area, which hosts a crap tonne of jobs.

I personally think she's running on a personal belief of the core charm, vibe, aesthetic Vancouver was / is in some areas. I don't want to play the age card, but I think there is a large demographic that agree with being in a growing city but think they're "losing" the city they know, whether that be at all or simply too quickly in their eyes. You could call it exceptionalism. I think she's running on that.

I also assume she would not have voted along the lines Maloney did for the West End hotel or the Strathcona rental and social housing buildings.

[GenWhy?]

I assume the towers around Cambie and 12th Ave seemed random to people when they were built in 1965 and 1977.

If we didn't have a party system here and if we had wards I think she would be an okay candidate for councillor