Rize Alliance’s controversial Mount Pleasant development The Independent finally got the green light from city council November 26 after seven years of planning and consultations.
At Tuesday’s council meeting, the City passed a bylaw to rezone the property at 285 East 10th Avenue.
The complex, which includes a 21-storey tower, a nine-storey tower and two five-storey buildings, by local developer Rize Alliance will boast the tallest building in the neighbourhood.
The 21-storey development, which will contain about 250 residential units with commercial space at street level, will be the area’s tallest building and has received much-publicized backlash from local residents.
The proposed building at Main Street, Broadway and Kingsway was objected to by some local residents who claimed the height and the design of the tower was not in keeping with the neighbourhood.
Rize responded by removing some of the originally proposed commercial space and redesigning the building.
In August, the Residents Association Mount Pleasant (RAMP) filed a petition in the BC Supreme Court asking the court to stop the project, claiming the revised designs had not been subject to the same consultation process as the original proposal.
However, this week the BC Supreme Court denied the petition, saying that it was “without merit.”
If construction now goes ahead as planned, the building is expected to be complete in 2017.
“We’re looking forward to the groundbreaking in 2015, and providing new homes for people wanting to live in Mount Pleasant,” said Rize CEO Will Lin.
