Enlarged 1489 West Broadway redevelopment will eat up neighbouring alley and restaurants
Plans for the redevelopment of 1489 West Broadway will be 85 percent larger than the existing address.—Google Street View
Blueprints I found in a dumpster on Friday (June 28) for the redevelopment of 1489 West Broadway Avenue not only include a Broadway subway station but also the adjacent alley and 1465 West Broadway.
PCI Developments’ blueprints show a 1489 West Broadway with a footprint that is a whopping 85 percent larger than the four-storey RBC Royal Bank building currently sitting at that address.
Blueprint detail explicitly showing the 65.5 metre length of the Granville side of the redevelopment.—Musson Cattell Mackey
The existing RBC building measures 38 metres on the Granville Street side and about 35.4 metres on the West Broadway side.
The PCI redevelopment also measures 38 metres on the Granville side but on
the West Broadway side it measures 65.5 m.
This extra 30.1 metres can only come at the expense of the existing alley entrance on the east side of 1489 West Broadway, as well as the property on the other side of that alley: 1465 West Broadway.
The construction crane that appears to loom over 1465 West Broadway belongs to a building site on 8th Avenue.
I had been wondering who owned 1465 West Broadway—a single-storey, three-lot, property that is currently home to three popular restaurants: Breakfast Table (addressed as 1481), Fortune Gardens (addressed as 1475) and Memphis Blues.
But I think I know the answer now.
Oh. And did I mention that 1465 West Broadway was rented between 1912 and 1913 as studio space by B.C.-born painter and writer Emily Carr, one of Canada’s most important artists? Click the images to enlarge them.
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The city owns the building where Deserres is located. I am quite certain all the land that is required for the station complex is already in the hands of Translink, the city or the province.
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The City of Vancouver has owned 1431-1441 since, I believe, 2015 (I first wrote about it in 2016). In spring of 2018 I found documentation showing TransLink owned both 1421 and 1409 (immediately east of the City-owned property). And I know that 1451 was bought by the Toigo family’s Shato Holdings in May of 2018. PCI has owned 1489 since 2007. I recapped most of this April 1st, when fire hit the City-owned property in the 1400 block.
I do not know who owns 1465 but I know someone who keeps promising to find out for me. At this point, given that it is clearly part of the 1489 redevelopment, I’m willing entertain the idea that PCI owns it. PCI may also own 1401 (a PCI Group company: Warrington PCI manages it).
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