

![]() | BUILT Era Uses: condo, commercial Address: 726-746 Yates Street Municipality: Victoria Region: Downtown Victoria Storeys: 15 Condo units: (loft, 1BR, 2BR, sub-penthouse) Sales status: sold out / resales only |
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Posted 17 June 2009 - 07:35 AM
http://www.timescolo...3918/story.html12-storey office building proposed for Yates Street
By Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
June 17, 2009 7:56 AM
Concert Properties hopes to fill a hole in the 700-block of Yates Street with a 12-storey office building.
The company, which has had success with such projects as the Marriott Hotel and the Astoria and the Belvedere condominiums in the Humboldt Valley, as well as the Chelsea in Fairfield, owns the vacant lot at 726-728 Yates. It also has conditionally acquired the adjoining properties to the east, including the English Sweet Shop up to Millie's Lane.
Concert is looking to rezone the properties to build the office tower with ground-floor retail stores and two levels of underground parking.
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Posted 17 June 2009 - 07:39 AM
Coun. Pam Madoff, who sits on the city's new planning and land use standing committee, is looking forward to examining the proposal in some depth tomorrow.
In general, she said, she's not a fan of proposals that call for saving only a facade of a historic building, but said Concert seems to be working hard to make this work.
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Here's hoping the commercial spaces on this one are better than the commercial spaces in the Y-lot.
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Posted 17 June 2009 - 01:03 PM
... What is Victoria's obsession with setbacks anyway? REAL cites promote interaction between the street and the ground level of buildings, while many of our newer buildings seem to shun this (see The Wave for a ground level needlessly setback).
Posted 17 June 2009 - 01:45 PM
It's for all the street people to sleep at night.
Posted 17 June 2009 - 01:57 PM
That's cool. But PLEASE for the love of god make it more interesting than the CIBC building, the building at 747 Fort, or some of the other ugly things going up lately. And no, please NO more Bay Centre-esque fake facades . . . just keep it simple. Glass and concrete.
Let's see, the writer believes that both the CIBC and 747 Fort Street (The Rohani Building) have "gone up lately " - both have been part of the downtown scene for at least 30 years. He complains that they are not interesting enough, which I take to mean too glassy-concretey and modern. But then he wants the new building to not have any fake facades, but to have simple glass and concrete. Does this not COMPLETELY contradict what he said about the former buildings? Just what WOULD he like to see?Posted 17 June 2009 - 02:32 PM
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