Plan for 29-storey social housing tower in downtown Vancouver takes next step

Vancouver City Council approves North False Creek social housing sites with 661 units

New renderings of a 28-storey social housing tower with a fire hall in downtown Vancouver

Concord Pacific provides $110 million and affordable housing sites in False Creek North

$91 million in government support for LGBTQ community centre and social housing tower on Davie Street

18-storey Indigenous social housing tower proposed for Commercial Drive in Vancouver

The existing 107-vehicle parking stalls at the lot are a popular location for eventgoers at BC Place Stadium and Rogers Arena. It is the last remaining stadium-serving surface parking lot west of BC Place Stadium.

This tower development was one of three social housing projects approved by City Council simultaneously, with two other projects also located within the immediate vicinity.

The current development permit application was submitted by the City of Vancouver’s Non-Market Housing Development and Operations department, with the design created by Public Architecture and Groundswell Landscape Architecture.

For this particular site, there will be a 290-ft-tall, 29-storey tower containing 299 social housing units, with a unit size mix of 116 studios, 71 one-bedroom units, 84 two-bedroom units, and 28 three-bedroom units.

Existing condition:

Future condition:

The total building floor area will reach about 250,00 sq ft, establishing a floor area ratio density of a floor area that is 5.94 times larger than the size of the 41,700 sq ft lot.

Three underground levels will contain 62 vehicle parking stalls and 526 secured bike parking spaces.

Drawings for the project also show the addition of a new signal-controlled intersection immediately west of the triangular-shaped development site, which will create a newly reconfigured mid-block pedestrian crosswalk.

Existing condition:

Future condition:

The City’s other two social housing projects under the same rezoning are located just to the east — a 28-storey tower with social housing, a new fire hall, and a childcare facility at 990 Beatty Street, also located next to the Cambie Street Bridge’s southbound on-ramp, and a seven-storey social housing building at 450 Pacific Street next to the bridge’s northbound on-ramp onto Pacific Street. All three sites were recently transferred to the municipal government from Concord Pacific.

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