Two public Open Houses will be hosted by the City of Vancouver to present three design concepts created to guide redevelopment of the Pearson Dogwood lands.
The sessions are slated for Thursday, June 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both Open Houses will be held at Pearson Dogwood Redevelopment Office, located on the George Pearson site.
All VCH staff who are interested in this redevelopment project are encouraged to attend. Public and staff feedback gathered on these three concepts will help VCH determine which is publicly supported.
Consultation-driven design
Through extensive public input that occurred over last winter, the redevelopment project’s design team has produced concepts that are innovative, financially viable, and environmentally sustainable.
Each concept contains health care and housing options as well as soft site amenities, such as green space and water features, all plotted on site diagrams in accordance with various density massing schemes. The site diagrams provide an accurate glimpse of what the 25-acre site could look like once all desired health care, housing and green space is situated on the property
By September, and via its partnership with the City of Vancouver, VCH hopes to have a final design vision for the site. This Best and Final option will be presented to the public and to the City of Vancouver in Fall 2013.
A little more context
Pearson Dogwood Redevelopment is a long-term project that is in its very preliminary stages.
Due to the redevelopment’s extensive and on-going public process, project construction would not begin anytime before 2015 and will likely extend outward for the next eight to 10 years.
To keep up-to-date on what’s happening on the Pearson Dogwood lands, please visit the Pearson Dogwood Redevelopment Project website.
Links to more Pearson Dogwood Redevelopment stories:
Planning underway for a new mixed-use community in Vancouver
Pearson-Dogwood residents, staff, families invited to first Open Houses