Development Proposal

In September 2004, City Council chose Westbank Projects/Peterson Investment Group (Henriquez Partners, architects) as the developer for the Woodward's project.

Design highlights include restoration of the 1903-1908 heritage portion that will be the new location of community non-profit space, a childcare centre and urban park and plaza areas that will be accessible to the public. The flatiron building for market rate condos was inspired by the scale and construction methods of the turn-of-the-century Dominion Building at Cambie and Hastings.

For more details, read the Westbank project development report and meet the design team.

Photos as of April 2009

View from Victory Square	Retail area and atrium space	West tower
Rooftop

Conceptual diagrams

The original 1903/08 Woodward's Building on the corner of West Hastings and Abbott Street, which includes the Community Non-Profits space and proposed Child Development Centre. The original "W" Tower is situated on the roof.	The West Hastings Street Building, which contains retail, the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, and the Singles Non-Market Housing.
The Abbott Street Mixed Use Building in the northeast, which houses retail, offices, family non-market residential and market residential.	Located at the terminus of the Cordova Street axis, the 40-storey W Building comprised of 330 market units, with a possible 36 Vancouver Resource Society (VRS) accessible units. Along with the West Hastings Street building to the south, this building defines the urban park and public open space.

For information on the Woodward's Sales Office, visit: www.woodwardsdistrict.com

Design competition

The winning proposal was chosen from a group of three shortlisted applicants. The other candidates were:

• Project factsheet (53 KB)
• Backgrounder (1 MB)

• Project Backgrounder (169 KB)

Comments or questions? Send us e-mail at woodwards@vancouver.ca

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Last Modified: Friday, May 13, 2011