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MPC has significant holdings here and the very hot Riverbend area in Burnaby where Amazon is getting a very large facility built. MPC has a long pipeline of development opportunities.
A city block-sized redevelopment in the core of the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area (MPIA) is set to become AbCellera’s new global headquarters office, and research and development hub.
Vancouver City Council unanimously approved the rezoning applications for the new biotech research campus, with the east building located at 110 West 4th Avenue and the separate west building at 150 West 4th Avenue — between Manitoba and Columbia streets.
The nine-storey east building — replacing existing low-storey structures with A&B Party Event Rentals — will encompass 212,000 sq ft of total floor area, with 70% of the space outfitted as state-of-the-art flexible laboratory uses, and 30% as office and support spaces.
Meanwhile, the west building is already under construction, but city council’s approval allows for the mid-construction addition of two more floors — increasing the height to seven storeys, and growing the total floor area from 128,000 sq ft to 169,000 sq ft of office and research uses. A restaurant is also included in the ground level of the west building.
Artistic rendering of the AbCellera campus’ east building at 110 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, with the west building faded. (Francl Architecture/AbCellera)
Artistic rendering of the AbCellera campus’ west building at 150 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver. (Taylor Kurtz Architecture & Design/AbCellera)
Both buildings combined will provide AbCellera with a total floor area of about 380,000 sq ft, with a floor area ratio (FAR) density of 7.0 for the east building and a FAR of 4.0 for the west building.