31-storey condo tower proposed for Cambie Street and 41st Avenue corner | Daily Hive

31-storey tower with condos, offices, and retail proposed for Cambie Street and 41st Avenue corner

Concept of 5635-5655 Cambie St., Vancouver. (NSDA Architects/Polygon Homes)

New redevelopment plans have now been proposed for the final remaining corner without a redevelopment vision at the intersection of Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue, within Vancouver’s emerging Oakridge Municipal Town Centre.

Currently, construction is nearing completion on several major projects surrounding this key intersection: QuadReal Property Group and Westbank’s new Oakridge Park mall at the southwest corner; PCI Developments’ 14-storey mixed-use rental and commercial building at the northeast corner; and Polygon Homes’ Claridge House development at the southeast corner, featuring 27-storey and 14-storey mixed-use buildings with condominiums, rental housing, and retail space.

While three of the four corners are now occupied by new high-rise developments, the northwest corner has so far remained untouched. At this site, a three-storey office and retail building, originally constructed in 1962, continues to stand — for now.

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Polygon Homes is now moving swiftly on its second site at the intersection — the recently acquired property at 5635-5655 Cambie St. — with the developer submitting a new rezoning application to build a 305-ft-tall, 31-storey mixed-use tower featuring condominiums, childcare facilities, office space, and retail and restaurant uses.

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Site of 5635-5655 Cambie St., Vancouver. (NSDA Architects/Polygon Homes)

Concept of 5635-5655 Cambie St., Vancouver. (NSDA Architects/Polygon Homes)

There will be 176 strata market ownership condominium homes, with a unit size mix of 39 one-bedroom units, 118 two-bedroom units, and 19 three-bedroom units. Residents will have access to indoor and outdoor amenity spaces on the sixth level, lower rooftop, and the partial tower rooftop level.

On the fifth level, there will be a childcare facility for 69 children, featuring 7,000 sq. ft. of indoor space and 7,740 sq. ft. of outdoor space.

The childcare facility is directly above the four-storey commercial base podium, which contains 51,000 sq. ft. of office space on three levels and 11,500 sq. ft. of retail/restaurant space on the ground level, activating the prominent intersection.

Five underground levels will provide 266 vehicle parking stalls, including 176 for resident uses, and 448 secured bike parking spaces.

Concept of 5635-5655 Cambie St., Vancouver. (NSDA Architects/Polygon Homes)

The total building floor area will reach about 276,000 sq. ft., establishing a floor area ratio density of a floor area that is 8.93 times larger than the size of the 30,853 sq. ft. lot.

This design by NSDA Architects steps back the tower from both Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue to create wider views from Oakridge Park’s transit plaza at the southwest corner of the intersection, where the stationhouse entrance into SkyTrain’s Oakridge-41st Avenue Station is located.

The proposal largely aligns with the prescriptions and stipulations outlined for the site in the City’s Cambie Corridor Plan. This area plan also calls for a future additional street-level entrance to reach Oakridge-41st Avenue Station, made possible by a new underground pathway below the street to the site at the northwest corner. However, the proposed design does not incorporate any provisions for such a future entrance, with NSDA Architects noting that its “recent discussions with the transit authority (TransLink) have confirmed that there is no requirement for an underground connection to adjacent transit facilities.”

During previous public hearings for nearby projects, City staff indicated that any future rezoning application for this site would likely be required to include an additional station entrance. However, that no longer appears to be the case. Such an entrance would have improved connectivity to the subway station as the area continues to densify and would have better supported transfers to the R4 41st Avenue RapidBus and any future rapid transit project along the 41st Avenue corridor.

Later this year, a major expansion project of Oakridge-41st Avenue Station will reach completion, including an expansion of the existing street-level entrance with additional escalators and the construction of a secondary station entrance accessible underground from the new indoor mall.

Concept of 5635-5655 Cambie St., Vancouver. (NSDA Architects/Polygon Homes)

The existing building’s longtime TD Bank will relocate to PCI Developments’ new mixed-use building at the northeast corner, which will reach completion in early 2026.

To the north, the existing Signature BC Liquor Store will relocate to a new replacement and expanded space adjacent to Safeway inside the new Oakridge Park mall.

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