„ Vancouver-based developer Joo Kim Tiah envisions a 1,033-foot-high tower on a downtown city block he owns bounded by Georgia, Seymour, Dunsmuir and Richards streets.“
After a decade of dreaming about it, a developer who’s generated controversy with some of the Vancouver’s biggest projects has unveiled plans to build the city’s tallest tower.
Vancouver-based developer Joo Kim Tiah, a member of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families, and chief executive officer of Holborn Group, envisions a 1,033-foot-high tower on a downtown city block he owns bounded by Georgia, Seymour, Dunsmuir and Richards streets. If it passes a recently submitted rezoning application, the hotel tower with observation deck will stand alongside 69- and 80-storey residential towers, with 1,288 strata condo units and 273 market rental units, a large public plaza and retail spaces.
The tallest tower will feature a three-level, glass-topped observation deck that will be free for residents, as well as 920 hotel rooms and conference centre. At a separate site at 388 Abbott St. there will be a fourth tower, where Holborn will build 378 nonmarket housing units, a daycare and Indigenous art gallery with three artist-in-residence suites. The Abbott Street site is Holborn’s contribution to the city. The embodied carbon for the project will be 50 per cent below the city’s goal.
„ The tallest tower will feature a three-level, glass-topped observation deck that will be free for residents.“