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864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
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This is one of the many Vive projects that I dug up after looking through the growing together documents, it is located on the old CTV property and King/Pine.

The proposal includes 4 towers ranging between 16 and 55 floors, the tallest tower is located at King/Pine, the second tallest is fronting King and connected to the tallest tower via a 18 floor tower, then along Pine there is the 16 floor building and the 38 floor building is located to the rear of the site.

Exact unit counts aren't available nor are bicycle parking counts, however from the preliminary zoning plans there is 1222 parking spaces for a rate of 0.63 per unit, so this should be around 2000 units. However this is still very preliminary so that will likely change.

The property will not need to get a ZBA/OPA as the new SGA-4 zoning allows for this development, however Vive might still require a ZBA for setbacks as that is the issue they have with many of their other projects as they go through development.

The preliminary phasing indicates that Vive will start with the 38 floor tower first, before proceeding to phase 2 which contains the 55 floor tower, phase 3 is the 16 floor tower and finally phase 4 is the 44 floor tower.

The podium is 6 floors and primarily contains parking, however residential and commercial uses are facing the street so parking is contained to the site. There is ground floor commercial fronting King and Pine, 693.1 sqm below the 55 and 44 floor tower, then a 492.7sqm commercial space that is marked as ambulatory, so that might have some relation to the hospital.
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There is no model available in any of the documents, however there is the site plan, which I have attached below, sorry about the quality.
   
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This would be exciting if it wasn't from Vive. All they seem to do is buy property, hire a local architecture team to throw together a vague plan, propose it, it gets approved and then they shelve it. The only project they've managed to get started in probably a year is the Sylk Towers project. The other 8 seem to be DOA despite initially planning and proposing them years ago.

They sure have deep pockets to keep it going...about half of the staff on their payroll seem to be accounting/financial/marketing related employees.
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