A two-tower mixed-use project has been proposed for Cloverdale Avenue at Highway 17 in Saanich. 467 residential units are envisioned, plus at-grade retail spaces, in towers standing 22 and 20 storeys tall. The proposal joins recently approved plans nearby for 555 units in a three-tower redevelopment of the Mayfair Lanes property opposite Mayfair Shopping Centre. Google
467-unit Saanich proposal emerges near recently OK'd 555-unit Superstore project
Mike Kozakowski, Citified.ca
Published April 10, 2025
The area around Saanich’s former Mayfair Lanes bowling alley and upcoming Real Canadian Superstore could see more than 1,000 residential units within a duo of high density, highrise developments, Citified has learned.
Last year, Saanich council approved plans for developer Townline’s 555-unit, three-tower redevelopment of the Mayfair Lanes property bordered by Tolmie Avenue, Oak Street and Roderick Street (opposite the Staples and Winners retail centre to the east, and Mayfair Shopping Centre to the south) with towers of 21 to 24 storeys above a two-storey retail centre anchored by Superstore.
Now, just a stone’s throw to the northeast overlooking Highway 17 at Cloverdale Avenue, is a fresh proposal that could deliver an additional 467 residential units above commercial space within two towers.
A rezoning application has been filed for 3311 Oak Street and 816 Cloverdale Avenue (collectively encompassing just under 1.5 acres of land) for two residential towers standing 22 and 20 storeys tall with ground floor retail space and two underground parkade levels. The area height limit permits towers of up to 24 storeys.
If approved in its current incarnation, and in addition to the Superstore site, the planned density jump on two frontages of the Winners retail plaza would total 1,022 units, representing among the highest density nodes anywhere in the Capital Region.
A little further afield, meanwhile, developer Woodsmere Holdings has plans for 278 residences in the 900-block of Cloverdale Avenue just to the east of Highway 17. 169 homes were also envisioned by Aryze Developments at the former location of Island Outfitters near the intersection of Cloverdale Avenue at Douglas Street, although that parcel has since sold without development permits in hand. Several blocks to the north at Uptown Shopping Centre, Saanich has approved a 24-storey tower as the mall’s fourth and final phase, with around 330 residential units.
Across the Saanich border in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood of Victoria, developer Mike Geric Construction is nearing the completion of Tresah West, a 12-storey, 179 condominium-turned-rental tower on Speed Street west of Mayfair Shopping Centre, about two blocks from the future Superstore. Several other projects that recently reached occupancy near Tresah have added over 300 units to the Mayfair Shopping Centre area of Burnside Gorge. C
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