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University Heights, building C is proposal for a six-storey mixed-use rental and retail complex at Cedar Hill Road and McKenzie Avenue in Saanich. The building is part of a redevelopment of the southern half of University Heights Shopping Centre bordered by McKenzie Avenue, Cedar Hill Road and Shelbourne Street.
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I didn't realize this was going up in two halves. Are any of the other buildings on the site under construction yet?
So far, it looks like work is ongoing for the foundation of the building fronting Shelbourne but it's moving ever so slowly compared to the one above. The rest of the site is still being excavated from what I can tell.
Going up so fast! I guess there wasn’t a lot of underground excavation here?
My guess is that because the majority of that site was a parking lot and that it was the first side to start excavation that they got a quick head-start.
Do my eyes deceive me or can you see these cranes from Begbie Street? The next time you're zipping by in your car try craning your neck in that direction (but just briefly enough so as not to be a road menace, because safety comes first). The cranes seem too close and too large. They appear to be right behind Hillside Mall. It's not quite three miles distance from there (from Begbie to University Heights), but I guess it's just very flat going up Shelbourne way.
edit: upon further review, I suppose the tallest crane must be about as tall as a ~20-story residential building?
Upon further further review, is there a crane anywhere else out Shelbourne way? Is there a crane at the McRae Ave project?

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