12-storey rental constructing proposed for Pender Road in downtown Vancouver

A mid-block web site on the south facet of West Pender Road between Homer and Richards streets in downtown Vancouver may change into a 12-storey mixed-use constructing with rental housing.

A brand new rezoning utility has been submitted for 430-440 West Pender Road, which is at the moment occupied by low-storey constructions inbuilt 1909 and 1913.

A brand new 115-ft-tall constructing will rise from the positioning whereas retaining and preserving the heritage facades, together with the Tiedemann Block, which is below the Vancouver Heritage Registrar’s Class B designation. The design is by native agency Architectural Collective.

There will likely be a complete of 80 secured purpose-built market rental properties, with a measurement mixture of 60 studio and 20 two-bedroom models. Indoor and outside facilities for residents will likely be located on the highest flooring, together with a 1,300 sq ft artist studio.

On the bottom stage, two retail/restaurant models will carry a mixed complete of about 2,000 sq ft of economic area.

The entire flooring space will attain 51,200 sq ft, establishing a flooring space ratio density of a flooring space that’s 8.2 occasions bigger than the scale of the 6,240 sq ft lot.

Because of the small and slim lot measurement and the necessity to incorporate heritage retention, there will likely be zero car parking offered — other than one passenger parking stall and two automobile share stalls within the laneway. A single underground stage and a portion of the rear of the primary stage will likely be used for 159 secured bike parking areas and resident storage.

This venture is wedged by two Onni Group growth websites — 424 West Pender Road instantly to the east and 510 West Pender Road on the previous parking zone on the nook with Richards Road.

Each Onni tasks started building earlier this yr, entailing a pair of 11-storey buildings with a mixed complete of about 140 secured market rental properties above ground-level retail/restaurant makes use of.

All three market rental housing tasks are instantly adjoining to social/supportive housing buildings, together with Lodge Canada to the southwest behind the laneway, and Central Metropolis Lodge, Atira’s Hutchinson Block, and the previous Ramada Lodge, which was transformed into supportive housing from the provincial authorities’s acquisition in the course of the pandemic.

In late 2021, the parkade and low-storey business constructions on the southwest nook of the intersection of Richards and West Pender streets have been acquired in a deal price $56 million for his or her redevelopment potential.