Burnaby Updates

[SpongeG]

I saw this ad of an apartment block for sale in the Edmonds area



https://www.collierscanada.com/en-CA/Pro...+investment+property++salisbury+hall+ave

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Kisai

I hope saner individuals realize that destroying the primary job, shopping and attraction in Burnaby is a stupid idea, and both Concord Pacific and Ivanhoe Cambridge realize that trying to quickly cash out turning the mall into yet-more-shoebox condos is not a good thing. The plan to destroy the mall is stupid, and is akin to destroying a major landmark.

But at this rate the city council seems to just be back to approving mass demovictions.

Accorde Properties has put Marlborough back on the Public Hearing list for November 19th.

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[Sheba]

Telus, developer sue each other over collapsed Burnaby land deal

Telus and a major Lower Mainland developer have launched duelling lawsuits over a $175.5-million Burnaby real estate deal that fell apart last month.

The property involved is a 14-acre piece of land at 7000 Lougheed Hwy. beside the Saputo Dairy plant. (The Saputo site was sold in 2018 for more than $200 million and the dairy plant is moving to Port Coquitlam.)

It’s the site of an old Telus industrial complex demolished in 2015 to allow for an environmental assessment of the soil and groundwater below the building slabs as a step towards future redevelopment, according to a city report.

The land is located inside the proposed “Bainbridge Urban Village” identified in the official community plan.

Polygon Homes Ltd., a Vancouver-based developer, signed a $175.5-million deal with Telus in September 2017 to buy the property.

The deal was subject to both Polygon and Telus being satisfied with the city’s response to Polygon’s development plan proposals – including responsibility for “all remediation for all on-site and off-site pre-closing environmental conditions,” which Telus had agreed to take on and pay for.

Polygon backed out of the deal early last month.

In a pair of lawsuits filed seconds apart in B.C. Supreme Court on Oct. 24, Telus and Polygon blame each other for the deal falling apart and both lay claim to a $5-million deposit Polygon paid Telus in 2017.

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[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by officedweller

I quite like this one, clean uncluttered lines.

[Vin]

This massive addition of urban density in a suburb municipality is indeed astounding.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

I quite like this one, clean uncluttered lines.

Where is the location For this?

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

Where is the location For this?

I believe it's this one:-

"A 43-storey tower with 409 condos, 15 townhouses and a six-storey, 92-unit non-market rental building would replace a rental apartment building at 6444 Willingdon Ave. According to BC Assessment, the property is currently home to a four-storey, 72-unit apartment building and is valued at $51 million."

Same block as Modello between Willingdon and Cassie and just a bit north of Maywood:-

https://www.google.com/maps/place/6444+W...913c18ff!8m2!3d49.2248837!4d-123.0098506

From:....

https://www.burnabynow.com/news/burnaby-...t-canada-has-ever-seen-hurley-1.24011831

[owenhujb]

Funny that this building will be taller than Modello

[Klazu]

Oh wow, projects keep coming up in Burnaby at an astonishing pace! I also like the Willingdon project and have actually been waiting for it to get started, as I think it was introduced already a while back. Or is there another ~40 floor project right at Willingdon and Maywood?

As a side note, Google Maps has just updated their Burnaby satellite imagery after several years, showing all current projects underway.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by owenhujb

Funny that this building will be taller than Modello

Will it, though?

Having more floor numbers doesn't necessarily mean it will be taller when the other building could have taller floor slab to floor slab height or high-ceiling Penthouse and sub-penthouse levels.

Not saying that this is necessarily the case with Modello, but do we have an actual total height figure for this Willingdon tower?

It seems like it would be too early for them to even have a concrete number of that much less release it.

[Klazu]

True but Modello ain't very tall. There are buttons up to 40 in Modello's elevator.

[officedweller]

The Bennett

From UrbanYVR - this is at the north end of the Nelson / Imperial cluster of towers.

Ledingham McAllister is planning a 35-storey condominium tower and six-storey rental apartment building at 4960 Bennett Street in Metrotown.

https://urbanyvr.com/ledingham-mcallister-the-bennett-metrotown


Rendering of The Bennett at 4960 Bennett Street in Burnaby’s Metrotown neighbourhood. Credit: IBI Group
https://urbanyvr.com/ledingham-mcallister-the-bennett-metrotown


Rendering of The Bennett at 4960 Bennett Street in Burnaby’s Metrotown neighbourhood. Credit: IBI Group

https://urbanyvr.com/ledingham-mcallister-the-bennett-metrotown


Rendering of The Bennett at 4960 Bennett Street in Burnaby’s Metrotown neighbourhood. Credit: IBI Group
https://urbanyvr.com/ledingham-mcallister-the-bennett-metrotown


https://urbanyvr.com/ledingham-mcallister-the-bennett-metrotown

And here's the updated map of those blocks:

[Klazu]

I was somehow under earlier impression that the plan called for a 45-floor tower but maybe it changed. They should reconsider the position of the tower to allow one more building to replace 4930 Bennett. Not sure if that is possible with the current plan...

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Klazu

I was somehow under earlier impression that the plan called for a 45-floor tower but maybe it changed. They should reconsider the position of the tower to allow one more building to replace 4930 Bennett. Not sure if that is possible with the current plan...

From last year

The site to the west at 4930 Bennett Street, which accommodates an existing strata-titled apartment building, will be a separate re-development in the future. The development companies for this and the subject site have explored the potential for a consolidated site, but have concluded to advance separate applications. The site at 4930 Bennett, while smaller, is feasible to re-develop in line with the adopted Metrotown Downtown Plan under its RM5s Multiple Family Residential District designation. A design and pro-forma analysis was undertaken for the site at 4930 Bennett, which demonstrates that the development potential under the adopted Plan can generally be achieved. Based on the smaller site area, under the Bylaw, a permitted density of 4.7 FAR would generate an approximately 15-storey apartment building (depending on the final floorplate size), with underground parking.

Separate developments at this location will add interest and variety to the building forms and heights. In addition, as this is an important intersection, a highly faceted building at the corner is expected as an anchor, using form, massing, materiality and color, to achieve this important urban design objective. One of the conditions of the subject site's development is to provide access to the site at 4930 Bennett Street via a reciprocal access driveway from Bennett Street (protected by easement). The applicant of the subject rezoning application has acknowledged this condition.

https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=8358371

[Spr0ckets]

If they had consolidated those two lots into one, they easily could have fit two towers onto that site, flanking some townhomes with a possible mixed use/retail podium fronting Bennett.
A shorter tower on the corner of Nelson and Bennett and a taller one fronting Lobley park with a combination of a mixed retail (or live/work units) podium with townhomes bridging the two along Bennett.

But I suppose the owner of the 4930 Bennett St. corner uilding and lot probably didn't want to sell, perhaps?

[WhipperSnapper]

Anything missing or incorrect? thanks.

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=87222578
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=87222578&offset=25

Coquitlam

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=87222599

[Kisai]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

If they had consolidated those two lots into one, they easily could have fit two towers onto that site, flanking some townhomes with a possible mixed use/retail podium fronting Bennett.
A shorter tower on the corner of Nelson and Bennett and a taller one fronting Lobley park with a combination of a mixed retail (or live/work units) podium with townhomes bridging the two along Bennett.

But I suppose the owner of the 4930 Bennett St. corner uilding and lot probably didn't want to sell, perhaps?

I'm pretty sure 4930 likely just didn't have anyone wanting to sell. Any developer probably had to buy the units one by one until they had enough to control the strata. Every so often I would see one unit for sale in that building and the price would be like 50% higher than the last time it was up. So at this point it wouldn't surprise me of each unit in that building is $1m since they're assessed at 600K ea.

https://www.bcassessment.ca/Property/Info/QTAwMDAzV0E3QQ==/
205-4930 BENNETT ST BURNABY $978,700

Looks like there's 12 units total, 6 on each floor with all the other units being between assessed between 500K and 600K.

It's not a very big lot, just like all the properties on Marlborough, these are going to be skinny towers that I question the ability of the proposed towers resistance to high winds.

[Klazu]

Thanks guys. I am happy with a 15-storey midrise going there eventually. It's just odd to have three tall towers on that block but none of them in the corners of Bennett/Nelson or Imperial/Nelson.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by Kisai

I'm pretty sure 4930 likely just didn't have anyone wanting to sell. Any developer probably had to buy the units one by one until they had enough to control the strata. Every so often I would see one unit for sale in that building and the price would be like 50% higher than the last time it was up. So at this point it wouldn't surprise me of each unit in that building is $1m since they're assessed at 600K ea.

https://www.bcassessment.ca/Property/Info/QTAwMDAzV0E3QQ==/
205-4930 BENNETT ST BURNABY $978,700

Looks like there's 12 units total, 6 on each floor with all the other units being between assessed between 500K and 600K.

It's not a very big lot, just like all the properties on Marlborough, these are going to be skinny towers that I question the ability of the proposed towers resistance to high winds.

LOL. I'm sure they will be fine. Take a look at the NYC new skinny supertalls

I'm glad they haven't consolidated all the lots. The area will be friggin boring and sterile if everything is developed in the same form

[SpongeG]

Burnaby condo tower to include “al fresco” dining terrace
December 4, 2019 By Peter Meiszner



A site midway between the Metrotown and Royal Oak SkyTrain stations will soon be redeveloped into a 34-storey condominium tower and a four-storey affordable rental apartment building.


View from southwest, showing al fresco dining balcony. Credit: GBL Architects

The development is backed by Accorde Properties Corp and will be known as Marlborough. It will contain a total of 306 units, including 47 market rental units and 41 non-market rental units.


View of non-market building from Marlborough Street. Credit: GBL Architects

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https://urbanyvr.com/al-fresco-dining-terrace-planned-for-34-storey-burnaby-condo-tower