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Roundhouse Marketplace was initially envisioned as the first phase of Bayview Place's Roundhouse development in the City of Victoria's Vic West neighbourhood. Comprised of commercial spaces, Roundhouse Marketplace was to include include a variety of retail opportunities in both new-build and restored heritage buildings at a Canadian National Historic Site.
The site's anchor tenant was planned to be a grocer occupying nearly 32,000 square feet of the historic railroad roundhouse building. Smaller commercial units were to have ranged between 1,145 to 5,848 square feet.
A unique retail opportunity in the form of eight railroad boxcars was planned to provide tenants with spaces of 400 to 500 square feet, situated throughout the northeast area of the Roundhouse property.
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Roundhouse ready to roll with Victoria approval for heritage site
Bayview Properties has recently submitted an application for rezoning on their roundhouse property in Vic West, dubbed The Roundhouse, which is joined to the Bayview Victoria[/url:6d1fb] development in Vic West. The project's website is available at [url]http://www.roundhousevictoria.com
The following image is a screenshot from the PDF available on the website and shows one of the potential scenarios. The tallest tower is 24-storeys and the others are stepped down towards Lime Bay.
Ready to roll!
18 years later.
I'd say give it another 20 to 25 years to complete. See you at the grand opening in 2050. :wave:
This project was supposed to be underway back when I first moved to Victoria. I always thought that this was the right location for more condo towers and have been surprised at how little has been done.
Do you think that this time they will get it underway?
Good grief Marg Gardiner: she opposed this project as it "would make for too much density and that the towers would curtail the area’s historical significance." Curtail the area's historical significance? What the hell does that even mean? Is its historic significance going somewhere? Pretty certain the actual Roundhouse and related rail buildings are all being not only maintained but also restored and repurposed......
I'm fairly certain both London and Paris have "historic" architecture that makes anything in this town pale into insignificance but that didn't stop them from building Canary Wharf and La Defense, respectively.
So what makes us sooooo special that we can't build Bayview, which is puny compared to either of those developments? Oh I remember now those world capitals are, well, truly 'world class' and have something called Vision - while Victoria just plays at the idea.....
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