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[Kapten Kapsell]

I do wonder if this will become Aryze's biggest rental project to date (by unit count)...

[PPPdev]

It’ll be the second biggest as 3319 Douglas is at 169 homes

[Mattjvd]

Oof. I generally quite like Aryze's projects, but this looks like a UVic residence building from 1971. And not in a good way. Great spot for some added density though.

Edit: My reaction to was to the original rendering, not the revision! The new proposal looks pretty good and I'm happy to see that it is adding even nore density.

Edited by Mattjvd, 02 October 2021 - 04:41 PM.

[Kapten Kapsell]

This is going to CotW on Thursday July 29.

[Nparker]

Better than most of Aryze's designs, although it still kind of looks like a hospital

Perhaps the rendering "icon" for this thread should be amended to reflect the updated proposal.

 

[Kapten Kapsell]

Today the T-C reported on this development and included quotes from Luke Mari at Aryze:

 

https://www.timescol...ildings-5628291

[Kapten Kapsell]

This is going to a public hearing: https://www.timescol...hearing-5647582

[Nparker]

...Perhaps the rendering "icon" for this thread should be amended to reflect the updated proposal.

Still no updates to the image for this thread. 

[aastra]

Yeah, but why make so much out of it?*

 

*factory reference

[G-Man]

Geez Aastra, way to build him up... 

[Victoria Watcher]

Aryze Development’s redesigned mixed-use project for 480 and 492 Esquimalt Rd. once again got the greenlight from Victoria council to head to a public hearing.

 

The project, which went through the same process in August 2022, has altered its overall plan, cutting back on commercial space in favour of 10 more rental residential units, and reducing parking to one underground level and 34 total spaces, down from the 63 originally proposed.

 

 

https://www.timescol...nd-time-7217635

 

 

 

The six-storey project will now offer 95 rental units spread over two buildings on what is currently a large parking lot.

 

The proposal approved last year would have included large commercial and industrial spaces on the ground floor totalling 1,204 square metres. That space has now been cut back to 222 square metres.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 June 2023 - 02:19 AM.

[Mike K.]

When will Aryze move forward on its Catherine Street project? That was approved in 2021, I think.

[Victoria Watcher]

Yes no point adding retail in Vic West.

[Mike K.]

There were tenants that had wanted to use the space for production. It sounds like a custom design job. I guess they walked away, maybe due to how COVID changed the way we work.

[E2V]

When will Aryze move forward on its Catherine Street project? That was approved in 2021, I think.

Wasn’t this proposal at Catherine and Langford Street? Isn’t there a modular multi-story supportive housing building there now?

[Mike K.]

No, that's across the street from the Aryze property.

 

Here's their site: https://victoria.cit...therine-street/

 

Here's the supportive housing: https://victoria.cit...therine-street/

[Mike K.]

There were tenants that had wanted to use the space for production. It sounds like a custom design job. I guess they walked away, maybe due to how COVID changed the way we work.

 

...oh yeah, hence the initial name of the project as Factory Block.