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October 4, 2005Southeast False Creek project beginsThe City of Vancouver is beginning Phase One of the Southeast False Creek (SEFC) project, and staff will hold a public open house to update citizens on the project:
The open house will provide the public with an opportunity to review planning for parks, the Olympic Athletes' Village, and infrastructure design including preliminary plans for the streets, pedestrian, and bikeways; waterfront; community energy system; and other sustainable public infrastructure initiatives. SEFC is the last remaining large tract of undeveloped waterfront land in the downtown area. The first phase of the project will be to develop a portion of the City-owned lands that will be used initially as the Olympic Athletes' Village in 2010. After the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the buildings will be returned to the City for affordable and market housing and a neighbourhood community centre. Further development of the City-owned site, which will be a model community of economic, social, and environmental sustainability, will take place from 2010 to 2018. The City recently issued a public call for proposals for the design and construction of the buildings in Phase One. To foster competition for this high-profile project, the City publicly encouraged all developers to respond. The Call closed on September 21 and generated submissions from five world-class local developers and architect partnerships. The five major developer teams that submitted expressions of interest are: Concert Properties, a B.C. based developer with 16 years experience developing and acquiring multi-family and seniors housing, hotels, commercial and industrial projects has joined with VanCity Enterprises and the Musqueam Indian Band. (Concert once stated it would not be involved in the Athletes' Village due to a potential conflict of interest. However, the City of Vancouver has now taken sole responsibility for the development of Phase One of the site, and will be exclusively reviewing, evaluating and selecting the developer team.) Concord Pacific Group: a well-known developer of urban, master-planned residential communities. They have partnered with Walter Francl Architects, whose work includes the Vancouver Community College rapid transit station. The team also includes Hancock Bruckner & Wright Architects, who has worked on a number of Vancouver's new landmarks including the Opus Hotel and the Bayshore Gardens. The Millennium group: a diversified Vancouver-based real estate developer with 60 years of experience worldwide. Their projects include the seven-tower, 15-acre master planned City in-the-Park community, the Edgewater in West Vancouver, L'Hermitage development in Downtown Vancouver comprising residential, retail, non-market housing and a hotel component, a large new community in Burnaby's Brentwood town Centre, and various projects in Europe and the Middle East. Millennium's team includes Gomberoff Bell Lyon & Architects Group, Merrick Architecture and an internationally renowned architect. Wall Financial: A B.C. owned and operated public company with over 40 years of experience building single and multi-family housing developments throughout the Lower Mainland. They have teamed up with Hotson Bakker Boniface Hadden Architects, who has been the lead architect for the design of the Southeast False Creek Concept Plan and also the coordinating architect for Granville Island for the past 27 years. Windmill Development Group: the development firm that is building two mixed-use projects in Calgary and Ottawa targeting LEED Gold, and the Dockside Green project in Victoria targeting LEED Platinum, has partnered with Great West Life Realty Group and BCIMC, as well as Busby Perkins & Will Architects, a local architecture firm whose work includes One Wall Centre and the Mount Pleasant Community Centre in Vancouver. The process for reviewing and evaluating the submissions is being conducted by a City of Vancouver staff team. By mid-October, the Project Manager will bring the staff team's recommendations forward to City Council. Short listed respondents will move forward to the more detailed Request for Proposals stage this fall, and a final decision is expected in early 2006. For more information: |
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