The Roundhouse Marketplace at Bayview Place has been approved by City of Victoria council.

The nearly 60,000 square foot commercial and retail phase of the multi-phased Roundhouse at Bayview Place development by Focus Equities (bordered by Esquimalt Road, Kimta Road, Sitkum Road and Catherine Street in Vic West) will restore into commercial spaces four heritage railroad structures (including the turntable) formerly used by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. Eight railroad box cars will also be brought in and used as retail spaces, a fitting tribute to the site's railroad past.

The box cars will range between 400 and 500 square feet. Brick-and-mortar retail/commercial spaces will range between 1,145 and 5,848 square feet while an anchor tenant, most likely a grocery store, will occupy approximately 32,000 square feet in the former railroad roundhouse building that gives the project its name.

Elsewhere on the Roundhouse property several residential highrise towers and a highrise hotel will be built over the next decade with some 1,700 residences expected upon Bayview Place’s full build-out.

Restoration of Roundhouse's historic structures is likely to begin this year as is construction on the site’s new-build commercial spaces. C

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