Developers behind a megaproject in the downtown Vancouver blocks bounded by Burrard, Davie, Hornby and Drake streets are proposing to build a fourth tower. Their main proposal remains mired in rezoning and is likely to have a public hearing late spring or in the summer.
Jim Pattison Developments and Reliance Properties Ltd. are the two companies that are teaming up to build what they hope will be:
- a 13-storey office tower at the corner of Burrard and Drake streets;
- a 47-storey residential tower at the corner of Hornby and Drake streets; and
- a 33-storey residential tower between Drake and Davie streets on Hornby.
Reliance separately proposes to build a 28-storey residential tower at the corner of Hornby and Davie streets, said IBI/HB Architects associate director Jim Hancock.
Reliance acquired land in the past year at the corner of Hornby and Davie streets, where there is currently a 7-11 store, and that is where they are proposing to build the new tower.
"It might be just Reliance [that will develop the fourth tower,]" Hancock told Business in Vancouver March 18. "I know that the plan is for it to share the parking with the adjacent development."
Hancock and IBI/HB Architects are fresh from going through the controversial yet successful rezoning of Beach Towers to allow for 133 new rental apartments in a four-storey building, a nine-storey tower and townhouses.
Hancock does not believe that the Pattison Toyota site rezoning will be as contentious.
"I'm not sure if there's a great deal of opposition to this so the public hearing could happen in one night," he said.
