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[Mike K.]

I was not expecting Tri-Eagle to say they were in negotiations, but I wanted to make sure I had the right info if asked on the project. Interesting revelation and certainly a good thing for downtown!

[gumgum]

Dancing banana and all that.

[ZGsta]

Tri-Eagle confirms that they are in discussions with an anchor tenant and construction could be several months away if all goes well.

Great news. Not going to hold my breath for this project though.

[Nparker]

This is great news. I am cautiously optimistic. (best emoticon I could find)

[jonny]

This was supposed to be going ahead any day now back in 2008 or was it 2009...anyway, cautious optimism is the only way to describe my feelings. I'll only be excited when the figurative shovels hit the ground.

[Mike K.]

The tower was approved in December of 2007. Tri-Eagle was banking on BC Ferries becoming the anchor tenant but when Jawl Properties swooped in with Atrium they usurped BC Ferries, as far as I understand, and Gateway Green was put on the back burner until another anchor tenant came along. Unfortunately right around the time this happened the market crashed and pent up demand for downtown office space evaporated almost over night.

Ever since then Tri-Eagle has maintained that the project is shovel-ready and awaiting an anchor tenant.

Realistically speaking if they get the deal the site will be under construction by late winter/early spring 2014 with completion by late 2015/early 2016. It's also a steel building so it should rise relatively quickly.

[amor de cosmos]

I have a feeling that rotherham building will stick out like a sore thumb in the near future

[G-Man]

Or fall into the background lost from sight.

[Kach]

Anyone recall when the Rotherham building was built? What was the perception of it at the time? 3 floors in such a prime spot seems a little light on the density.

[Baro]

3 floors was too much density at the time so they had to add that well loved plaza out back. A fantastic building! Brick? Check! Low Density? Check! 3 stories? Check! Huge useless open space? Check. It's a Victoria dream project.

[jonny]

Tri-Eagle confirms that they are in discussions with an anchor tenant and construction could be several months away if all goes well.

 

Any further developments on this?

[concorde]

Mike K has it spot on in his post of Nov 7.  Nothing has changed

[jonny]

Mike K has it spot on in his post of Nov 7.  Nothing has changed

 

What I was wondering was if anything had changed since then.

 

Thanks.

[Mixed365]

Mike K has it spot on in his post of Nov 7.  Nothing has changed

Anything changed since then? Seems like itd be one of the tallest if it ever gets built. 

[Mike K.]

Nope no news.

[gumgum]

About ready to give up on this one.

[Mike K.]

Word on the street is the proponents are exploring the possibility of alternative uses on this site. As such the office tower concept might be kaput, especially with 1515 usurping any demand for downtown office space that there may have been.

[thundergun]

Word on the street is the proponents are exploring the possibility of alternative uses on this site.

 

I wonder what alternative uses they are exploring. On this note, can you think of any mixed use towers (not the best term for this city I know) in Victoria, with commercial taking a group of the bottom floors, with residential up top? Thinking along the lines of Vancouver examples like the Shaw tower or even the Shangri-La in Coal Harbour. Obviously it would be a smaller scale here, but something like this (e.g. more than ground floor commercial) could work both here and maybe at the proposed Harbour Landing location as well.

[Mr Cook Street]

I wonder what alternative uses they are exploring. On this note, can you think of any mixed use towers (not the best term for this city I know) in Victoria, with commercial taking a group of the bottom floors, with residential up top? Thinking along the lines of Vancouver examples like the Shaw tower or even the Shangri-La in Coal Harbour. Obviously it would be a smaller scale here, but something like this (e.g. more than ground floor commercial) could work both here and maybe at the proposed Harbour Landing location as well.

The newest building at the Selkirk development is mixed use isn't it? Granted, on a very small scale. Top floor is residential if I remember correctly with commercial below.

 

Switching to residential makes sense to me for Gateway Green.

Edited by Mr Cook Street, 02 December 2014 - 10:35 AM.

[Mike K.]

SoMa on Broughton across from the library is mixed-use commercial, office and residential. Boardwalk in Selkirk has eight rental units on two floors facing the Gorge, a commercial ground floor (half shared with residential, I think?) and four floors of office space (plus a half floor, I think?).