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Two members of the Jericho Lands project team take us inside what they have been working on since the revised concept plan was unveiled, and when to expect another update.In Vancouver, there is arguably no real estate development project that's bigger and more complex than the Jericho Lands project.
Furthermore, while Sen̓áḵw involves a collaboration between a First Nation and a private developer, the Jericho Lands project team consists of three First Nations under the jointly-createdSen̓áḵw will be built on lands governed by the Squamish Nation, outside the jurisdiction of the City of Vancouver, but the Jericho Lands project has no such liberty and requires deep involvement from the City.
In 1942, the Government of Canada purchased nine acres of the site from the Jericho Country Club and leased the remaining 140 acres from the Province. In October 2014, the federal government sold the 52 acres it owned to the three First Nations and the Canada Lands Company — a self-financing federal Crown corporation — for $237M, with MST and CLC splitting ownership 50/50. In April 2016, the Province sold the remaining 38 acres it owned to MST for $480M.
"It's kind of like these concentric circles, on all fronts," said the project team executive, who asked not to be named individually. "So day-to-day, you have a much smaller number of people, 10 to 15, but behind that, there's layers of others. Same thing on the City side. They have a core City team, but then a full integrated City staff team of perhaps 45 people.
The Jericho Lands project is also guided by what MST calls a "cultural whorl," which consists of three "cultural design inspirations," seven "cultural site planning elements," and 14 "cultural design principles," many of which overlap and are interconnected.
"There's no battles. It's just this incredibly intense and invigorating planning and design conversation about 'what does that look like' and 'how do we do that.' And so that's just when you iterate and iterate and iterate. 'What about this? What about that?'"The planning team member says the project team is also very aware of the concern among local groups regarding heights and densities.
The planning team member notes that about 900,000 sq. ft is identified for retail space, office space, schools, childcare facilities, light industrial, and hotel space. The executive says there have also been more detailed conversations about schools, community facilities, and land uses. They are also thinking more about how the 90-acre project "embeds" into the broader community, whether it's building orientations and road networks need to be tweaked.
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