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University Heights, building A
Uses: rental, commercial
Address: 3956 Shelbourne Street
Municipality: Saanich
Region: Urban core
Storeys: 6
University Heights, building A is proposal for a six-storey mixed-use rental and retail complex at Cedar Hill ... (view full profile)
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#341 Mike K.

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Posted 19 September 2023 - 02:07 PM

Oh yeah! Uptown was quite the sight.

Did UVic use two or three for the prisons?

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#342 MysticalWarrior

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Posted 22 September 2023 - 12:22 AM

Did UVic use two or three for the prisons?

 

I believe they used two as I remember seeing only two of them up at one point.


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#343 lanforod

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Posted 27 September 2023 - 12:17 PM

September 26

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#344 lanforod

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Posted 27 September 2023 - 12:18 PM

On the opposite side, the buildings look like they're about ready to come down.



#345 Mike K.

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Posted 27 September 2023 - 12:24 PM

That’s 13% of Saanich’s target right there!
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#346 MysticalWarrior

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Posted 03 October 2023 - 10:14 PM

This thing is no joke rising really quickly. Taken today, a week after lanforod's snapshot:

 

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#347 Nparker

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Posted 03 October 2023 - 10:30 PM

That building must be approaching full height.



#348 Mike K.

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 07:49 AM

Yes that’s got to be full height. Crazy how fast they’re moving.

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#349 GaryOak

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 07:57 AM

Yep topped out 5/1

#350 Mike K.

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 07:59 AM

Nice! That's developer lingo right there!


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#351 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 08:00 AM

10-4.

#352 Mike K.

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 08:04 AM

Thanks, trucker!


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#353 Nparker

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 08:07 AM

This building made me wonder; can a wood frame structure rise 6 full floors above a concrete first level or does it have to stop at 5? In other words could this have been a 7 storey building?



#354 Mike K.

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 08:12 AM

They can go to eight, right? But you need two concrete floors, I believe. It's more efficient to build 5/1s (five woodframe above a concrete floor) that's why we see them so often, and buildings of seven or eight storeys not so much.


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#355 Nparker

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Posted 04 October 2023 - 08:18 AM

Gotcha.



#356 aastra

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Posted 10 October 2023 - 01:20 PM

Pic from on high by thegreatscaper...


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#357 MysticalWarrior

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Posted 22 October 2023 - 12:35 PM

The other half of the new building is now rising. From the Fairways parking lot:

 

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#358 Nparker

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Posted 22 October 2023 - 01:42 PM

I didn't realize this was going up in two halves. Are any of the other buildings on the site under construction yet?



#359 Mike K.

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Posted 23 October 2023 - 06:24 AM

Going up so fast! I guess there wasn’t a lot of underground excavation here?

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#360 MysticalWarrior

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Posted 23 October 2023 - 11:47 PM

I didn't realize this was going up in two halves. Are any of the other buildings on the site under construction yet?

 

So far, it looks like work is ongoing for the foundation of the building fronting Shelbourne but it's moving ever so slowly compared to the one above. The rest of the site is still being excavated from what I can tell.

 

 

Going up so fast! I guess there wasn’t a lot of underground excavation here?

 

My guess is that because the majority of that site was a parking lot and that it was the first side to start excavation that they got a quick head-start.


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