[Burnside Gorge] Selkirk Waterfront Community | Current phase: Boardwalk | U/C

[Mike K.]

Plans for Selkirk Waterfront's last undeveloped property have morphed from a residential building with groundfloor retail into a mixed-use office, residential and commercial building.

Also, Fortis (Terasen) is vacating its space after 20 years at Selkirk and plans are underway to re-locate the operation to the west shore. Fortis was one of the initial tenants at Selkirk and gave the project its first major line of support.

Of course with Fortis moving out, this positions the surface parking/maintenance yard at Selkirk for some form of redevelopment.

More in the article below.

Mixed-use office and residential project last piece of the puzzle at Selkirk Waterfront
By Mike Kozakowski, VibrantVictoria.ca
Mixed-use office and residential project last piece of the puzzle at Selkirk Waterfront | VibrantVictoria.ca

Jawl Properties has applied to the City of Victoria with a zoning variance request for the last remaining undeveloped parcel at the Selkirk Waterfront Community along the Gorge waterway.

Company representative Robert Jawl says the initial plans for 2950 Jutland Road envisioned a six-storey residential building with commercial space along the groundfloor. However, strong demand for office space at Selkirk has recently lead to a re-think of the project to include a mix of offices, residences and commercial space.

“Several office tenants at Selkirk are bursting at the seams and would like to remain within the community. Our plans are for a 65,000 square foot mixed-use building that could start construction by early 2013,” Jawl said. [Read more]

[aastra]

A couple of Corazon-style buildings would be great back there.

[geekthegreek]

Ah, there goes my water view.... It was great while it lasted. I guess it will probably be a year or more before the building is up. So I assume that the new building will go up in the current location of the parking lot in front of the docks?

[Mike K.]

That's correct, but construction will likely start next year and completion will follow sometime in 2014.

[aastra]

Not sure if we've seen this image before:
http://www.burnsidegorge.ca/events/c...0-jutland-road

Also, the school wants to do a little expansion:
http://www.burnsidegorge.ca/events/c...orge-road-east

[manuel]

Fencing is up on site for this one and digging to start in the next few days. Waiting in anticipation to see what Jawl does with this site

[dasmo]

A great site development in general. Top marks from me...(Selkirk as a whole)

[Dylan Leblanc]

Wow this is exciting! Totally forgot about this one.

[Dylan Leblanc]

[Mike K.]

Hoarding is being erected and site-prep is well underway.

6-storey Boardwalk project to complete Selkirk Waterfront
By Mike Kozakowski
6-storey Boardwalk project to complete Selkirk Waterfront | VibrantVictoria.ca

Site preparation and excavation has begun on The Boardwalk, a six storey mixed-use office, commercial and condo project at Burnside-Gorge’s Selkirk Waterfront Community.

After 20 years of construction on industrial land once occupied by a lumber processing facility, Boardwalk will rise above Selkirk Waterfront’s last un-developed parcel and complete one of the most successful mixed-use urban redevelopment projects in Victoria.

Originally planned as a condo building with groundfloor retail, developer Jawl Properties decided to re-envision the site (officially located at 2950 Jutland Road) and accommodate several of Selkirk Waterfront’s existing office tenants “bursting at the seems,” as company representative Robert Jawl stated earlier in the year. [Read more]

[VicHockeyFan]

Doug Clement Photography

[Mike K.]

That's the Railyards! Get your Gorge Waterway/Upper Harbour harbourside walkable/livable/environmentally friendly urban renewal projects right, VHF.

[VicHockeyFan]

Damn it, that's what I though when it was posted on my page (with the Selkirk label), then I rethought it and went along.

But you are right:

Link to map

[Dylan Leblanc]

Here's a view of the new building from the water. Construction should be starting soon.

Image from the Selkirk waterfront Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Selkir...03302893036544

[Dylan Leblanc]

The eight residential units will be on the first two floors at the back of the building overlooking the water.

[jonny]

OH MY GOD IT'S A MASSIVE FIVE STOREY HULKING TOWER THAT WILL OVERSHADOW THE HARBOUR AND RUIN THE VIEWS!


Seriously, dare I say this is a handsome, modern looking building. I like it!

[G-Man]

^^ Construction has started they have already excavated almost to waterline.

[History Buff]

This excavation goes to below sealevel it was obvious when I was there today that the ocean was higher than the hole.

[Bernard]

shows me how long since I have been down there, I have missed the start of construction.

[Mike K.]

The view Vic West.

[Linear Thinker]

Amaze your friends with this technical term:
Sheet pile.
Seen along the right side of the excavation.

And yes, at college there was much giggling when the ee was replaced with an i.

Originally Posted by History Buff

This excavation goes to below sealevel it was obvious when I was there today that the ocean was higher than the hole.

[geekthegreek]

They were banging in those steel plates just after New Years. The whole ground, including our building (the blue-windowed one at left in HB's photo) shook alarmingly. It really was probably equivalent to a series of magnitude 5.x seismic events in the local area (I was in Seattle during the 6.1 earthquake of March 2001, do have some experience with such things). We were starting to worry about windows shattering, and the pounding was causing some headaches...
Anyway, nothing happened, all was well, they look like they know what they're doing out there, and it remains an constant interesting/distracting view.

[geekthegreek]

Lots of steady progress on this one over the past few months. One of those big t-style construction cranes is going up right now outside my window as I type this... Hopefully one of the pieces doesn't come through my window!

[Gary H]

The (jr) tower crane is going up today:

[Gary H]