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Scot Hein is an adjunct professor in the master of urban design program at UBC. He was previously the senior urban designer with the City of Vancouver. SHARES Craft beer tastes better. Apply its lessons to how we build affordable homes and liveable neighbourhoods.
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Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 per cent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly produced little experimentation with a reliance on traditional formulas. Beer was expensive, and weak, made with minimal hops and large amounts of corn or rice. The market imposed a reality of bland lagers on purchasers.
The land assembly on the sloped site is comprised of six single-family homes built between 1938 and 1951, and a single-storey office building constructed in 1960.
The proposal calls for a 12-storey tower at the intersection corner facing East Broadway, and a six-storey podium on the upward slope to the north of the tower along Renfrew Street.
Site of 2406-2484 Renfrew Street, Vancouver. (Studio One Architecture/Epta Development Corporation)
Site of 2406-2484 Renfrew Street, Vancouver. (Google Maps)
There will be 175 secured purpose-built rental homes, with 140 units used as market rental homes and 35 units set aside as below-market rental homes under the city’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP).