A rezoning submission was recently filed with the City of Vancouver for two towers on Alberni Street in the West End. Designed by Heatherwick Studio for Bosa Properties and Kingswood Properties, this will be the design firm’s first high-rise project in the country when built.… Read More
This morning blogTO did a post on how to spend a day in the Junction neighborhood of Toronto. I love the Junction. I’m planning to move to the Junction. And we have a development project in the area called Junction House. So know that I am… Read More
It’s no secret that Vancouver is way out in front of Toronto and many other cities when it comes to laneway housing. Good luck trying to get a laneway house approved in Toronto. They’re only allowed under rare circumstances where there is already an existing… Read More
Yesterday after my post on leveraging LRT, I stumbled upon an interesting and timely article written by Richard Joy, who is the Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute (Toronto). The article talks about some of the transit-oriented development that we’ve seen at various nodes… Read More
Below was the scene at the DUKE Condos site in The Junction last Saturday morning at 7:00AM. Michael Bros. mobilized their equipment to begin site preparation so that shoring and excavation can begin. The plan is to be at the bottom of the hole by… Read More
Spacing Vancouver recently published an interesting look at Vancouver’s West End neighborhood. And it led me into a deep dive of the neighborhood’s recently adopted Community Plan (November 2013). So today I’d like to talk a bit about the neighborhood and also their plans for… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 