UPTEN | 121.91m | 37s | Strategic Group
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Patrick.1980
Active Member
This tower is turning out better than expected.
Urb
Active Member
Agreed. Certainly a pleasant surprise.
Chinook Arch
Active Member
I think people have been hard on Strategic. Yeah, the one one 16th is nothing to write home about, but honestly, it's about as good as one could expect for that location. It's cheap rental stock, and they have filled all the retail at grade. It's a major improvement from what was there before. Strategic rescued the 2020 block in Mission and now it's doing well, with once again all the retail bays occupied. They rescued this tower, and are re-doing the Barron building. I feel they don't get much credit where it's due.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
I agree, Chinook! They have done good things for our city for sure. Certainly more good than bad, as well as the fact that they are at the vanguard of the conversion of our glut of office space into residential with two projects already underway (Barron as you mentioned, and Cube) with another on the way at 7th Street Station likely within the next year.
1875
Senior Member
The glazing goes up quickly. Yesterday's progress from 8:00am to noon
gsunnyg
Senior Member
did the height change? noticed its 41 storeys in the title instead of 37.
The rendering shows it at roughly 37 floors, but Strategic's website says it's 41 storeys, so we'll go with 41 for now.
1875
Senior Member
def 40 is the new 30
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Would we be looking at a height increase in that case? I'd imagine about 130 meters.
I believe so. I have the height from the old DP, so it's probably more like 130m
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
130 meters, so hot right now. ?
UrbanRED
Active Member
Wow; if that's true, then this is taller than 707 fifth (124M if I recall correctly). It's awesome how much larger our residential towers are becoming.
I remember the days when breaking the 30 floor mark was a big deal. Arriva being 34 floors seemed so tall at the time.