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800-block of Broughton Street, condominium
Use: condo
Address: 800-block Broughton Street
Municipality: Victoria
Region: Downtown Victoria
Storeys: 26
Condo units: (1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 1BR + den, junior 1BR, junior 2BR)
Sales status: in planning
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[Downtown] Downtown Victoria Y - YMCA | Condos, rentals | 26, 11 storeys


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#61 Jackerbie

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 07:47 AM

Yeah but if the Jawls aggregate the unused potential density on all of the parking lots they own in Victoria then they should be able to get to 10:1 here!

 

I don't know how receptive Victoria is to density transfers, but if anything they'd be moving density from this site somewhere else due to St Andrews across the street.

 

Isn’t there a height limit in a radius around the church spire?

 

I can't find a height limit in the DCAP, just a map showing a 90 m radius around identified heritage sites where additional design review is required. It could be that a height limit exists in another document, though. Would be too easy to have everything in one place!



#62 Mike K.

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 07:49 AM

Indeed, lol.

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Posted 16 March 2020 - 08:14 AM

The OCP lists the site as Core Business with heights up to 24 floors less if office and 6:1 fsr.
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#64 Promontory Kingpin

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Posted 15 August 2020 - 11:28 AM

Any news on the ymca prospective proposal at the capital 6?

#65 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 October 2022 - 05:34 AM

Any news on the ymca prospective proposal at the capital 6?

 

 

The longtime home of the Capitol 6 Theatre in Victoria will be redeveloped into commercial and office space but plans also leave the door open for other public uses.

 

Council in early October gave the final go-ahead to Jawl Properties’ 10-storey project – called Capitol VI in an ode to the theatre’s history. The new building has a three-storey podium base that will sit along Blanshard Street between Yates and View streets, before the upper floors are set back.

 

The inside of the podium will be built so it can possibly be used as a new downtown library, a YMCA-like facility, post-secondary school space or other uses, but those details will be finalized closer to construction. The five commercial units look to house a number of cafes and restaurants, along with a retail store.

 

 

https://www.vicnews....- Morning Alert


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#66 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 October 2022 - 05:35 AM

The fitness centre has up to seven years to pursue plans for an alternate location.

 

Tick tick tick.


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#67 Jacques Cadé

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Posted 18 October 2022 - 08:44 AM

Tick tick tick.

 

No kidding. A swimming pool like the Y's has significant engineering demands. You can't just swap it into any pre-built commercial space.

This is something the new City Council will have to get up to speed on ASAP. Downtown can't afford to lose big amenities like movie theatres and YMCA-YWCAs while its population steadily increases.


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#68 Mike K.

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Posted 19 October 2022 - 06:36 AM

The developer behind Harris Green offered to build a space suitable for a new downtown library as part of the project, but that was rejected by the city, I heard.

I don’t know if the library at Cap 6 is the right idea, as romantic as it might be to have it opposite the Carnegie building.

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#69 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 19 October 2022 - 06:43 AM

We don’t need big new libraries with loads of book stacks. That’s not how libraries work now.

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Posted 19 October 2022 - 06:44 AM

Matt Dell wants an outdoor pool too. Maybe it can be in the Victoria Oak Bay border since they want one too.

Kings Park?

Maybe just install some walls in Swan Lake? Or the summit reservoir?

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#71 Mike K.

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Posted 19 October 2022 - 07:01 AM

We don’t need big new libraries with loads of book stacks. That’s not how libraries work now.


So why do they keep getting bigger?
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#72 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 19 October 2022 - 07:03 AM

James Bay (newest) is one of the smallest. Some get bigger as the expand “programming”. That’s not necessary for a library. And now people can easily order books to their local branch.

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#73 Mike K.

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Posted 19 October 2022 - 07:06 AM

They keep getting bigger, though. James Bay is a product of that growth. There was no library there before.

Sooke’s library just expanded, Esquimalt’s library just expanded, and just you watch, the new downtown library will be far, far larger than the current one.

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#74 Kapten Kapsell

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 09:54 AM

Concert Properties has submitted a redevelopment proposal for the site.

There will be a 26-storey strata condo tower with 220 units and an 11-storey rental tower with 150 units (some affordable). Significant green space is planned and the development is designed to maximize cathedral views.

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#75 aastra

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 11:32 AM

I admit I laughed out loud. Not because it doesn't seem to be a good project, but because the entire notion of a "cathedral district" buffer against large development seems to have been tossed in the bin recently without any official announcement.

 

Seriously, Chard's Escher project is further away and yet it was restricted to ~10 stories. Before that the critics were maligning the excellent lowrise Chelsea project for being "a tower" and otherwise ruining the neighbourhood.

 

Where is the sense in flipping the switch from "no even tall-ish buildings allowed" to "tallest building in the city allowed"?


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#76 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 11:47 AM

Hey! They are “maximizing cathedral views”, didn’t you read?
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#77 Nparker

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 11:47 AM

From many angles the Cathedral is barely visible even a block away now. I am not sure what difference an adjacent 26-storey building is going to make in the grand scheme of things. 


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#78 aastra

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 12:36 PM

^Great, but then how do we account for the previous several decades of policy against it?



#79 aastra

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 12:39 PM

How do we account for six frickin' stories in a new build (not even finished yet!) at Douglas and Hillside? How do we account for the Northern Junk saga? How do we account for any development controversy that has ever happened in Victoria?



#80 aastra

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 12:43 PM

How do we account for an excellent junior highrise proposal recently getting a big thumbs down near Fort and Cook?

 

There's no sense to any of it.



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