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Project officials provided media with a technical briefing earlier today, giving greater detail on the years-long construction process to come.
Traffic disruptions have already been occurring for several weeks at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway for the bridge-like traffic deck being installed over the span of the city block, which will allow for the excavation and construction of Mount Pleasant Station below it. These disruptions with reduced lanes will continue for about six months, until the deck is complete to establish four temporary travel lanes over the construction site.
The four other new subway stations along Broadway Broadway-City Hall, Oak-VGH, South Granville, and Arbutus will also each have four-lane traffic decks spanning a block or more over the station construction site, replicating street level. Traffic deck installation and excavation at these other stations will begin later this year.
The subway is a continuous westward extension of the existing Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to a new terminus station at Arbutus Street. Six underground stations will be built along the 5.7-km-long route, including a major interchange hub to the Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station.
“This is an exciting milestone for a critical infrastructure project that will transform the way people travel in and around the Broadway corridor and create good-paying jobs to support BC’s economic recovery,” said Rob Fleming, BC Minster of Transportation and Infrastructure, in a statement.
“Investments in public transit infrastructure are crucial to improving commute times, reducing carbon pollution and laying the foundation for strong economic growth.”
Some have also suggested such multi-storey buildings should be built concurrently with station construction.
SkyTrain Mount Pleasant Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)
SkyTrain Oak-VGH Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)
The only two exceptions are South Granville Station and Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station.
Construction on this building is well underway after a simple development permit application was swiftly approved, but the developer is anticipated to return to the municipal government in the near future with a rezoning application for added floors for residential or extra commercial density.
The five-storey building at South Granville Station is currently being built to accommodate this eventual vertical expansion; there will be six underground levels of parking and an extra elevator core to serve an overhead tower.
Site of the future T3 Mount Pleasant office building at 123 East 6th Avenue, Vancouver. (Google Maps)
Site of the future T3 Mount Pleasant office building at 123 East 6th Avenue, Vancouver. It is currently occupied by the heritage Simon Fraser Annex. (Google Maps)
According to the development team, the municipal government chose the developers to acquire and redevelop the property based on PC Urban Properties’ experience in the area with building office and creative industrial projects, and heritage revitalization. The property’s latest assessed value is $41.6 million, with $41.2 million for the 30,000 sq ft of land and $400,000 for the structures.
The project name T3 stands for timber, transit, and technology. The location is about a four-minute walk from SkyTrain’s future Mount Pleasant Station at the intersection of Broadway and Main Street.