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Another in our series of posts on Vancouver’s really big transformation of a 1950’s-vintage, 28-acre car-oriented urban shopping mall into a transit-oriented mixed use community.
And now, something that surprised me.
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Thanks to several commenters on THIS Price Tags post who are concerned about the pedestrian realm planned for Vancouver’s new, improved Oakridge Centre.
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A bold-looking mixed-use Oakridge Centre is rising in the city, on 28 acres, at the site of a Canada Line transit station. Henriquez Partners Architects have designed something that is billed as the largest development in Vancouver’s history. Completion date looks to be 2025, costs somewhere around $5B, with 2,548 new residential units, and two 40+ storey towers among 12 other buildings. And it’s right in the middle of a predominantly single-family residential area, with rising density nearby.
Part of the design rationale is, however, specifically to generate density at an important transit hub. Mission accomplished, it seems to me.
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Curbed in New York reports on Graham Hill and his 350 square foot apartment for sale in New York City for 750,000 U.S. dollars. But this is not just any small apartment~Mr. Hill is the force behind Life Edited and had previously renovated a 420 square foot apartment that actually had a room that converted into a dining room with seating for twelve people. That apartment sold for 790,000 US. dollars.
You can view how that “bigger” apartment worked in the video here.
That $790,000 that Hill got for his first apartment did include $365,000 of bespoke furnishings including the Murphy bed and the dining table which folded.
The current apartment on its real estate listing notes that this unit was featured in Dwell magazine and is “one of the most widely published apartments in the world, and is a prototype for living simply with functional space making the apartment feel twice as big.
While espousing the “less is more” philosophy, Hill uses his apartments to detail items that contribute to happily living small. The latest unit actually has a guest bed for when company visits. Hill also has a well viewed TED talk which you can watch below.
Image: Treehugger.com
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Ackery’s Alley is another addition to people places in Vancouver, and is set to launch with a fun party:
- Thursday August 9
- 7 – 9 pm
- Behind (east ) of the Orpheum Theatre (near 675 Smithe St)
It’s another welcome transformation of underutilized city space. It joins Alley Oop (more HERE), Jim Deva Plaza (HERE), Bute and Robson (more HERE) and the 800 block of Robson Street (more HERE). I’ll bet I’ve missed a few.
Funding for Ackery’s Alley was based in part on a Kickstarter campaign. At last count, 428 people had pledged $ 64,736 to make it happen.
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TransLink, UBC and City of Vancouver engineers and planners have told us what they think about the technology for the Broadway to UBC rapid transit line. There’s no room for more busses on this monster corridor, and LRT has too-low capacity.
This information came out at the July 28 Town Hall meeting mentioned recently in Price Tags along with significant background.
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The 90-acre Jericho Lands, a huge greenfield, sits in Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighbourhood. We all wonder what will rise there.
It’s mostly a former military garrison, now owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh Development Corporation, and the Canada Lands Company. You’ll find it amid some of the priciest real estate in Canada, featuring very low density, and very expensive single-family homes. The Lands offer potentially spectacular view sites and nearby ocean-front parks. (Read some background on this site HERE, HERE, and HERE).
Amid the enormous pressure inherent in shepherding an allocation of this multi-billion dollar site, it’s hard to get much of a sense of the possible, ultimate outcome; a veritable bonanza of opportunities to reshape an entire community. What’s to come — cheesy car-centric suburb? A forest of high rises, ripe for speculators? A complete community for average humans — what?
But maybe something beyond platitudes and vague statements is slowly emerging.
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The changing face of southeast Metrotown, as seen from the platform of Royal Oak Station.
Look down and to the south of the station, literally across the street, and there’s a remnant of old Burnaby: M-B Grocery.
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So much competition, but on any short list, the Phibbs Exchange in the District of North Vancouver would be highly ranked.
Isolated, decayed, desolate, intimidating, no services, and no washroom. (It’s here.)
But there’s hope.
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