This is a redevelopment of 728-796 Main Street, which is the northeast corner of the intersection of Main Street and Union Street. Bonnis Properties will turn the site into a 114-ft-tall, 11-storey building with 94 homes, including 75 condominium homes on the upper eight levels, and 19 social housing units on the two levels above ground level.
The unit mix is 17 studios and two one-bedroom units for the social housing component, and 23 studios, 25 one-bedroom units, 19 two-bedroom units, and eight three-bedroom units for the strata residential component.
Existing condition:
Original proposal:
2017 artistic rendering of the proposed development at 728-796 Main Street in Chinatown. (Studio One Architecture/Bonnis Properties)
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).