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[Baro]

Any recent renders or elevations?

[Mike K.]

None has been released. Concert may not release any until the development permit has been received.

[Mike K.]

Major update:

Concert Properties has opted to decrease the floor height of individuals floors and increase the floor count to 16-storeys from 12-storeys. The structural height of 47.1m remains unchanged.

[Baro]

wow that's a pretty major change. It's too bad they feel they need to do this as higher floors in office buildings really make things nicer.

[yodsaker]

7-foot ceilings for hobbits?

[aastra]

Not the ground floor, I hope. Surely the city wouldn't allow a short ground floor on a major new downtown building? Surely??

[Mike K.]

The height has now been confirmed as 48 meters.

[D.L.]

Perhaps the 16 storey count includes underground floors?

[Mike K.]

Ok, yet another. update.

The project is no longer an office proposal. It is now to become residential with groundfloor retail.

CEI is no longer the architecture firm associated with the project.

[VicHockeyFan]

Ok, yet another update.

The project is no longer an office proposal. It is now to become residential with groundfloor retail.

CEI is no longer the architecture firm associated with the project.

Well that makes a lot more sense with the change in height.

[aastra]

I generally like Concert's stuff but their towers can be quite bland and they sure do reuse a few basic designs over and over. I think their lowrise buildings tend to be better than their highrise buildings.

One thing that worries me: if a higher-end location like the Y-lot is worthy of Astoria/Belvedere then what do they have planned for Yates Street? Another Belvedere? Or a step down to something more Joyce Station-esque?

[D.L.]

No, I don't like the idea of residential (at least this much) for this location.

[gumgum]

Have we shifted back for more of a demand for residential over office now?

[Mike K.]

Have we shifted back for more of a demand for residential over office now?

According to Colliers, the region is building 4x the amount of office space that is averaged per year.

Condos to replace offices as developer switches course
By Mike Kozakowski, VibrantVictoria.ca
http://vibrantvictoria.ca/?p=3207

A proposal for a 12-storey (47.1 meter) office building at 726-746 Yates Street has morphed into a 16-storey residential development.

Proponent Concert Properties believes a residential project with groundfloor retail is more economically feasible, a conclusion the firm came to when re-evaluating the local market as the office proposal made its way through the municipal approval process.

Prior to Concert’s purchase of the property from local businessman Eric Charman, a 12-storey, mixed-use office, commercial and residential project, dubbed The Mozart, failed to move from the conceptual stage to construction, although the project itself was approved back in 2005. [...]

[2F2R]

>>> One thing that worries me: if a higher-end location like the Y-lot is worthy of Astoria/Belvedere then what do they have planned for Yates Street? Another Belvedere? Or a step down to something more Joyce Station-esque? <<<

A step down of course ... YAWN ... ...

[D.L.]

Something in the style of the TV Towers in Vancouver would work at this site.



Pic from - http://www.6717000.com/tvtowers/

[concorde]

We might see some action on this job before the year is out

[Mike K.]

Concorde, any additional details that you might be able to post?

A group of suits were checking out the site several days ago, for what its worth.

[concorde]

Start date is rumored to be October/November, but I don't have any more details than that

[Mike K.]

Sales or construction start?