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Office Space Conversion

This caught my eye right away.
The company, founded in 2003, also plans to reclassify a surplus office land site near Stampede Station to accommodate a 300-unit multifamily development.

Also this. Glad to see the city move quickly on this.
The news follows a Land Use Bylaw amendment made by the city in June which makes it easier to attain permission to repurpose office spaces, giving landlords and developers greater flexibility with their assets while downtown-office vacancy soars to 25 per cent.

The amendment abolished the requirement for a development permit to convert an office to a residential building. Now, in most cases, only a building permit is required.
 
300 units is a good sized building, I wonder which building it is? The only office buildings near stampede Park that I can think of is stampede station and keynote
 
300 units is a good sized building, I wonder which building it is? The only office buildings near stampede Park that I can think of is stampede station and keynote
Changing a land use, not a use. No building on site currently.
 
Strategic has (3) buildings they are looking to convert to residential over the next 3 years. One is the Barron building on 8th Ave.
 
Strategic has (3) buildings they are looking to convert to residential over the next 3 years. One is the Barron building on 8th Ave.

Whaaaat?! The Barron Building could be going residential? I literally couldn't imagine a better candidate for a residential conversion in the entire city, except for maybe the top 6 floors of the Lancaster Building. Either way.... f*ck yeah! :D

I wonder if, as part of the residential conversion, Strategic will go forward with the formerly proposed expansion of the building, just in a residential context now, rather than office.
 
The Barron building was the building I had heard about. I had heard it was going to be renovated as loft style office space, but maybe beard has been changed to residential since then. Either way I would love to see that building getting renovated and reused.
Sorry can't say right now, but it is looking feasible,so you'll probably hear something soon.
 
It would be a dang shame if they went with office for the Barron. It's such an interesting and beautiful building. The closest thing we have to a large Art Deco structure we have in this city, and even then, it's only part Art Deco and part Internationalist.

Would probably be able to fit a good hundred lofts into a space that size. Blow out and revitalize the ground floor with some great retail and a nice new overhang. *drool*
 
It would be a dang shame if they went with office for the Barron. It's such an interesting and beautiful building. The closest thing we have to a large Art Deco structure we have in this city, and even then, it's only part Art Deco and part Internationalist.

Would probably be able to fit a good hundred lofts into a space that size. Blow out and revitalize the ground floor with some great retail and a nice new overhang. *drool*
Or a contemporary art museum?? Two 17,000 square foot floors (miunus building services and circulation of course), plus a new build 6500 square feet per floor annex. Engineering for large column free space due to the theatres. For residential, likely don't need to put in a full height annex to accommodate additional elevators, could use it mostly for gallery space.
 

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