Coquitlam
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DEVELOPMENT
Marcon tweaks TriCity Central JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com
Port Coquitlam’s Bill Jones has created a new community for cyclists in the Tri-Cities who also want to learn more about what’s brewing at local craft breweries. See the story on Page 19. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
The pub is now razed. And soon, too, the car dealership will go at Tri-Cities’ busiest junction. Marcon and the Quadreal Property Group are now readying the land at the southeastern corner of Lougheed and Barnet highways for “TriCity Central,” a proposed master plan that, if approved by city council, will house about 8,000 residents and see about half the retail space of Coquitlam Centre mall. On Monday (April 11), Marcon’s Nic Paolella and Ryan Bragg of Perkins & Will Architects stood before council-in-committee to give their second update on the massive mixed-use project that, according to city staff, will likely see the first application come to council by the summer after a public consultation. Paolella said they’ve
made some refinements since the bid was introduced last June, including increasing the total conference centre size by 17 per cent, to 24,000 sq. ft. The ballroom is now proposed to be 40 per cent bigger than originally planned — at 7,200 sq. ft. to accommodate up to 560 guests — while the meeting room area will increase to 2,800 sq. ft. As well, the childcare hub will have room for 220 kids; previously, it was for 150 children. Originally branded as “Coquitlam Central,” TriCity Central is planned in two phases on the 11.6-acre site at 2954/65/66/76 Pheasant St., 2960/68 Christmas Way and 2950 Lougheed Hwy.: • Phase 1 (north side): Two rental buildings with 1,000 units; one strata building with 500 units; 535,000 sq. ft. for retail, office and a SEE
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