Tall & Urban News

The Vancouver City Council approved social housing for Indigenous individuals and families at the end of December 2023, in what CTBUH has confirmed is a 19-story building. The new high-rise complex called Place of Cedars is set to be built in the Granview-Woodland neighborhood on 1710-1730 Pender Street. It will add 191 units of housing to the area.  

The project will replace older low-rise buildings that currently have 39 units. It is intended for the new building to have 117 one-bedroom units, 36 two-bedroom units, 27 three-bedroom units, and five four-bedroom units, along with six live/work units on the ground level fronting East Pender Street and an internal courtyard. The tower will be attached to base podiums of three and six floors.

Initial renderings show greenery and vegetation on rooftops on the high-rise and surrounding complex. The designs have been described as having common amenity spaces and outdoor areas on the rooftops of all three buildings, with the 19-story rooftop providing both outdoor amenity areas and an indoor amenity space used as a First Nations longhouse. Aboriginal Land Trust and Lu’ma Native Housing Society are the developers and DIALOG is the architect.

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