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New renderings of stacked cube office tower at 400 W. Georgia St.

The Budget car rental building site at West Georgia and Homer streets in downtown Vancouver will soon be home to a new building with a daring design.

Developer Westbank, Allied REIT and Merrick Architecture are proposing a spectacular, 24-storey office tower made up of several clusters of four-storey, steel-framed cubes, arranged around a central concrete core.

The City of Vancouver held an open house for the upcoming office tower this afternoon, and showed off new models and renderings of the project.

400 West Georgia open house

Lobby rendering 400 West Georgia
Lobby rendering.
400 West Georgia Street lobby
Dramatic tower lobby entrance at West Georgia and Homer Street.
Rendering from Georgia and Richards
Rendering of tower showing relationship to L’Hermitage condominium building and vacant lot.
400 West Georgia Street facade
Rendering looking up at tower from Homer Street.
400 West Georgia frontage
Model of 400 West Georgia, showing Homer Street frontage.
Model of 400 West Georgia.
Model of 400 West Georgia office tower by Westbank and Allied.
Model downtown Vancouver
Model showing 400 West Georgia and upcoming Canada Post development. The new art gallery is also shown (crystal model, left)

The spaces in between the cubes will be home to hydroponic living walls of foliage, as well as water features. The building will contain 350,000 square feet of office space, some of which will have glass floors, as well as a soaring four-storey glass lobby.

There will also be a cafe or restaurant on the ground floor, and extensive landscaping of the public realm surrounding the building, including pavers, seating, lighting and upgrading of the laneway. There will also be a garden and amenity space on the roof of the building for office tenants.

Westbank says the unique design will set the standard for future office developments in Vancouver, and that the large column-free floor plates will be attractive to high-tech companies.

The building will designed to a LEED Platinum standard, and Westbank hopes the project will become a landmark at the eastern gateway to downtown, which is set to be transformed with the removal of the viaducts.

It will be built “on spec”, meaning no major tenant is lined up for the project, but that shouldn’t be a problem — several major tech companies including Amazon are rumoured to be looking for more space in the area.

400 West Georgia Street project renderings

400 West Georgia Street Amazon office
Rendering of new office building to be constructed at 400 West Georgia Street. Credit: Colliers Canada
400 West Georgia Street Amazon office
Rendering of new office building to be constructed at 400 West Georgia Street. Credit: Colliers Canada
Photo of upcoming proposal at the Central Steam Plant site at 720 Beatty Street.

The existing building on the site – formerly home to Budget Car Rental — was constructed in 1913, but it is not protected by a heritage designation.

400 West Georgia Westbank
Rendering of 400 West Georgia in daylight hours.
400 West Georgia Westbank
Rendering of 400 West Georgia at night.
400 West Georgia Westbank
The building will feature glass floors on some levels.
400 West Georgia Westbank
Homer Street view, looking upwards showing the green wall and unique design.

 

400 West Georgia Westbank
Rendering of the new office tower showing the library and also another Westbank project, Telus Garden.
400 West Georgia Westbank
The current Budget car rental building, which is over 100 years old.

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Peter Meiszner
Peter Meiszner
Peter Meiszner is an experienced journalist and media relations professional, based in Vancouver. As founder of urbanYVR.com, he has been reporting on urban development across the Lower Mainland since 2016, and has also served as vice-chair of the Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee. In October 2022, he was elected to Vancouver city council and is no longer actively reporting for urbanYVR.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. This is a win win for Vancouver. Increased office space, new jobs (construction plus office ones) and getting rid of the embarrassment that is Budget Rent a Car Vancouver’s location – never before have I dealt with such a bunch of crooks as those guys.

    I hope you all saved all that money you got from bilking customers on fake damage claims because you’re gonna be on unemployment for a long time!

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