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I'm actually a Libra.
Gemini's close cousins (what with the scales and the balance and decision-making and seeing both sides and all that)
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Originally Posted by Sheba
......Yeah Burnaby's plan to chop up the whole area adds a whole 'nother level of gore to what's already potentially a massively messy divorce. From what I saw of the old proposal, it looked like Concord wanted it to be towers with retail podiums and at best only one of them would be connected to the mall.
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I think the city's plan is the least of anyone's concerns at this current juncture.
I mean, it's obviously more significant to any proposal that's put forward by Concord Pacific since their site sits right on Kingsway, but until this issue is resolved one way or another, the city's plan (like any city's long-term vision, or plans) are like pie-in-the-sky wishlists of what they hope to achieve but which really acts as a driver for how to guide developers as to what they prefer going forward.
What I did find interesting in those reports is the little-mentioned (but more or less well-known) tid-bit that Ivanhoe Cambridge have their own redevelopment plans for the mall that are a factor in all this.
I imagine those plans have to do with adding a 4th office Metrotower on the southern side of the mall roughly where the current bus loop sits.
The city shot down that initial proposal (to move the bus loop to south of Beresford, as a means of accommodating this) since they had their own vision to make Beresford a more pedestrian-friendly streetscape in line with the Skytrain station renovations and expansions.
(the architects who did the Skytrain re-design actually got into a bit of trouble for posting that particular design proposal option on their website if I remember correctly).
Ivanhoe Cambridge seemingly shelved that plan for the moment, but I could still see them tearing down the old Zellers/Target space and putting Metrotower #4 there and offering Accent@home a different space while it gets built.
All speculation on my part obviously, but I don't really see how any of it would affect the current issues with Concord Pacific on the Kingsway side.
I just found it interesting that it came up at all in that court hearing.
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