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We have access to a new peer review thanks to the ATIP prowess of Andrew Koltun. This one is for the Automation Tools on Privately Sponsored Refugee Applications Automation Tools on Privately Sponsored Refugee Applications The Automation Tools on Privately Sponsored Refugee Appliations – Peer review completed GAC Here is the Google Docs link for those who are looking on their cellphones and cannot see the preview. While I am still reviewing (and incorporating this into a presentation I am giving on Friday), my initial thoughts are that this is consistent with my concern of pro forma peer review summaries being provided by IRCC as part of the AIA process. On behalf of AIMICI, I wrote a brief earlier this week today where I raised that as public stakeholders we would like to see what Global Affairs Canada actually said, rather than what IRCC’s summary was. This is probably the most favourable (with almost no criticism) peer review I have read to date.   The post Another Peer Review We’re Making Public: Privately Sponsored Refugee Automation appeared first on Welcome to Vancouver’s Immigration Blog.

This is the residential address for the apartments above the retail building at 2409 Main Street. Our 1937 image shows there was a different arrangement to the building in those days, with several main floor units that these days have become two more retail stores. We think they were offices – in 1932 City Electric Company operated from 154 East 8th, as well as BC Monumental who designed stone monuments. In 1936 both 152 and 154 were vacant (as they had been the year before). Upstairs, 156 East 8th had 10 apartments. The Main Street (left hand) part of the building was developed by J B Mathers in 1910, with A J Bird as architect. Two years later W P White was hired to design an addition on East 8th at a cost of $9,000, which would be the four upper windows on the western end of the building. Before the building was painted, it was possible to see a slight change in brick colour. In 1937 the building appears to have been given a makeover, with a name, ‘The Crosbie Block’, and 13 suites upstairs but the numbering started at ‘0’, presumably to avoid trying to lease ‘suite 13’. Stuart Thomson  photographed it that year, and that’s where our Archives image comes from. We have no idea where the Crosbie name came from; Charles Crosbie was the only wealthy resident in the city with that surname; the retired BC head of the Royal Bank, who lived on Angus Drive. In 1952 there was a newly completed retail store that became home to the Standard Sewing Machine Center. By 1985 it had become a cafe, offered for sale for $29,000. In 1990 156 East 8th was a 1,000 sq ft retail store that leased for $400 a month. The twelve remaining residential units now have ‘Crosby Building’ over the door in gilded lettering, and a 2-bed apartment rents for $2,990. Downstairs, Melo Patisserie have one retail unit, (replacing the Nice Cafe – ‘Mount Pleasant’s original greasy spoon cafe’ – that was here for many years) while the Express Rut Bar offers root touch-ups – ‘the missing link in the hair industry’, for $65. Image source: City of Vancouver Archives CVA 99-5012 1418    

Join us on the evening of Wednesday, June 19, 2024 for a discussion on the ways in which people in Vancouver are ‘gardening the streets’ and helping to turn roadways into verdant and vibrant public spaces. The event features two presentations – one longer, one shorter – that touch on the practice of transforming streets into beautiful green spaces. The event will also showcase some of the programs and opportunities that community members can access to take a turn at ‘greening’ our city streets and improving local public space. Joining us for the evening are: SABA FARMAND – a landscape architect and arborist. In 2019 he started documenting the many ways that community members have been stewarding street and boulevard gardens. His @eastvan_blvd_gardens instagram account project has almost 5,000 followers and has led to several successful walking tours and speaking events. ROSINA CUK – a horticulturalist and arborist who has been managing the boulevard garden on Heather and 16th and the traffic circle on Heather and 18th for the past five years. Presentations will be followed by an open conversation with audience members. Bring your questions and ideas and join in the discussion! Gardening the Streets is the first event in the VPSN’s Access Public Space series, which explores the overall accessibility – physical, economic, cultural, etc. – of the city’s open spaces, streets and civic buildings to community members and visitors. The event is FREE, but registration is required . Some light snacks will be available. * * * * * Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House (MPNH) Accessibility MPNH is located one block away from the 99 B-Line, and the #8 and #9 buses. The first and second floors are fully wheelchair accessible. There are single stall, all-gender, wheelchair accessible washrooms on the first and second floors, as well as multi-stall gendered washrooms. MPNH is a scent-reduced space to help support the wellbeing of neighbours with sensitivities. The House offers free WiFi for guests, which may impact those with electromagnetic sensitivities.

Bastion Development has submitted a rezoning application for their site at Arbutus & West 10th Avenue for a 20-storey condo tower. The site at 2120-2150 West 10th Avenue is 17,248 SF and located just one block from the Arbutus Station. A previous proposal for the site in 2021 was for a 5-storey condo building with 42 units under existing zoning. The project is the first application under the Broadway Plan seeking 100% condo use. Most sub-areas of the Plan require rental, or a mix of condo and social housing. This particular sub-area, known as Kitsilano Arbutus Broadway Sub area C, allows for 100% condo with a CAC payment. Details of Bastion’s proposal for the site is a 20-storey tower that includes: 86 condo units; 71 two-bedrooms, 12 three-bedrooms & 3 townhouses; 3,900 SF of retail space on the ground floor; a total density of 6.93 FSR; A building height of 217 ft. 144 parking stalls on 4 underground levels. The rezoning will require a CAC payment, yet to be determined. The architect for the project is Arcadis. The full application can be viewed here: https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/2120-2150-w-10th-ave The post A Rare Sighting: A 100% Condo Tower in the Broadway Plan appeared first on Vancouver Market.

The notable project of a 30-storey mixed-use rental housing tower immediately south of SkyTrain’s future Arbutus Station has taken its next big step. A new development permit application has been submitted by PCI Developments for the project of 2096 West Broadway and 2560-2576 Arbutus Street — the narrow, but long, lot next to the Arbutus Greenway at the southeast corner of the intersection of Arbutus Street and West Broadway. The application also shows new detailed artistic renderings of a highly refined design by architectural firm Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership. You might also like: – Vancouver City Council approves TransLink’s first rental housing project, located at Arbutus SkyTrain station – TransLink to launch new for-profit real estate development arm – Massive mixed-use building development at VCC-Clark SkyTrain station with rental housing, office, childcare, grocery store, and retail uses – 25-storey rental housing tower proposed next to future SkyTrain South Granville Station – 20-storey condo tower proposed for SkyTrain’s future Arbutus Station This is the latest step for the project after its rezoning application was unanimously approved by Vancouver City Council in a public hearing in July 2024. It is a significant project; this is not only one of the first high-rise tower projects approved under the City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan, but it is also TransLink’s very first building development project under the public transit authority’s new for-profit real estate development division. PCI Developments and TransLink have a 50-50 partnership for this project. This transit-oriented development will also have built-in space to enable a future secondary entrance into Arbutus Station by setting aside streetfront and underground spaces for such uses. During the rezoning application process, it was noted that this additional subway station entrance would be situated on the Arbutus Street side of the building. However, following previous suggestions by the City’s Urban Design Panel, the development permit application shows the subway entrance is now relocated to the northernmost frontage of the building, directly facing West Broadway at the intersection corner. Schematics show this entrance will feature a staircase, one escalator, and one elevator. Some of the building’s underground parking space will be used for the required concourse space to directly connect with Arbutus Station’s expansive concourse level directly below West Broadway. The tower’s primary use will be 260 secured purpose-built rental homes, including 208 market rental units and 52 below-market rental units, based on the Broadway Plan’s stipulation of requiring at least 20% of the residential rental floor area be set aside for below-market rental housing. About 7,400 sq ft of retail/restaurant uses will activate the building’s West Broadway, Arbutus, and West 10th Avenue frontages. Additionally, about 7,100 sq ft of community space over two levels for the new home of Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel will be incorporated into the south end of the building, with the Jewish community organization space’s entrance fronting the Arbutus Greenway, where there will also be a cafe operated by the organization. Additionally, this project will also provide the adjacent segment of the Arbutus Greenway with a major public space upgrade, including a space for a large Mobi bike share station. During the public hearing, it was indicated that construction on the tower could begin in late 2025 for a completion in 2029. Earlier this year, the provincial government announced SkyTrain Millennium Line’s Broadway extension reaching Arbutus will see a further delayed completion and opening in Fall 2027 instead of early 2026. You might also like: – Vancouver City Council approves TransLink’s first rental housing project, located at Arbutus SkyTrain station – TransLink to launch new for-profit real estate development arm – Massive mixed-use building development at VCC-Clark SkyTrain station with rental housing, office, childcare, grocery store, and retail uses – 25-storey rental housing tower proposed next to future SkyTrain South Granville Station – 20-storey condo tower proposed for SkyTrain’s future Arbutus Station

Here’s one of the thirteen non-market housing projects funded by BC Housing on land provided by the City of Vancouver. It’s big – 147 rooms – and managed by the Raincity Housing and Support Society. It’s named after Lorna Budzey who died in 2000, a resident of Raincity’s first shelter. The building is designed by Neale Staniszkis Doll Adams Architects and is 10 storeys high. The site was previously the home of the Drake Hotel, a small (24 room) hotel dating back to 1912, and bought by the City of Vancouver in 2007 at the same time the Province started buying SRO Hotels. The City carried out a basic renovation of the property to allow it to be used as temporary rooms for tenants whose building was being given a more significant upgrade that meant they had to move out for a while. The hotel’s neon sign, dating back to 1950, is in the Museum of Vancouver’s neon collection. Before image, 2008; after image, 2015