Granville WHEN IT is com- pleted, the Lonsdale | Quay public market complex will be every North Vancouverite’s seaside shangrila. | By TIMOTHY RENSHAW Through the eyes of someone who has spent a good deal of his youth dodg- ing the freight trains, grain elevators and mountain ranges of coal that render North Vancouver’s water- front off limits to recre- ational use, the $24 million market hotel complex is a shaft of pure white light through the industrial morass. John Evans, senior vice- president for Intrawest, the company responsible for the concept and construction of the complex, says, ‘‘There is nothing in North America that can compare to this project. In the U.S. there have been similar attempts al revitalizing urban waterfront in combination with retail and market developments, but most have been trite and small, The essence here is authenticity over upscale plasticity.’’ AUTHENTIC MARKETS According to Evans, the only two truly authentic public markets in North America today are Seattle’s Pike Street market and Van- couver’s Granville Island public market. The runaway success of the latter, he says, was one of the major factors in deciding to focate the public market hotel complex at Lonsdale Quay. That coupl- ed with what he sees as the evolution of the retail food industry into two main branches, ‘‘mega-stores where you make large mon- thly purchases combined with smaller public markets for purchases of fresh quali- ty everyday food items,’ convinced investers that the Lonsdale Quay market would match the success of Granville Island. At 40,000 square feet, the Lonsdale Quay market will be 4,000 square feet larger than the Granville Island market. It will include 50 permanent merchant stalls and facilities for 60 day stalls. BUSTLING STREET The pervading theme of the market is one of a busti- ing main street crowned with a massive vaulted glass ceil- ing, suffused with light, mercantile adrenalin, and surrounded with floor to ceiling panoramas of Bur- rard Inlet and North Van- couver’s industrial water- front. Indoor outdoor access on every level is designed to bring the public to their seaside heritage. The complex, designed by Norm Hotson and Josst Bakker, the same architects responsible for Granville Island’s overall desizn, is neither direct competition for the Vancouver market nor a hackneyed carbon copy, according to Evans. “Ir is a North Shore development for North Shore people who have given up on trying to shop at 12 - Friday, October 18 1985 ~ North Shore News LONSDALE QUAY investors hope to match island success = * gant 5 te TN eget tt, . — THE STEADILY developing building that will house Lonsdale Quay's public market and hotel slowly takes shape. Scheduled to be completed February 14, 1986, the $24 mil- lion three-storey project will also include three restaurants, one pub, and 25 retail outlets. Granville Island because of the crowds and parking con- gestion, As a development Granville Island was the revitilization of an old warehouse district. This is a totally new development and because of that we have the freedom to do something totally different.” ADULT FUNHOUSE From the beginning, Evans says, Intrawest was adamant that the develop- ment would be more than just retail: ‘‘an adult funhouse, alive 24 hours a day.” The upper two floors of the three level structure, therefore, will be given over to retail shop space and the Market Hotel. Both levels ting the market, looking down upon a_ courtyard, of hustle and hubbub, The second floor will feature 25 assorted retail outlets including an !1-store Kid Street section in which to indulge the fantasies and frivalities of baby-boomer progeny. Crowning the complex will be the Market Hotel. Designed to capture the fla- vor of a seaside resort, the hotel will have 57 cooms and a 175-seat restaurant. Each room will be outfitted with windows that, in this age of air tightness and air condi- tioning, actuaily open to an intimate panorama of Cates Tugs. Versatile Pacific ship- yards, and assorted North Vancouver urban seaside in- dustrial vitality. The upper- floor haute cuisine restau- rant will be one of three ma- jor culinary outlets in the market complex, PARKING FEARS Consumer fears of park- ing, Evans says, should be dispatched with the approx- imately 1,000 parking stalls contained in the immediate market area, 600 of which will be made available in the ICBC parkade as part of a shared use agreement. Scheduled to open Febru- ary 14, 1986, the Lonsdale Quay market-hotel complex, Evans says with unbridled enthusiasm, will have no real competition. The plethora of mall and retail food outlet development taking place on the North Shore represents nothing to match the breadth and beauty of the Lonsdale Quay public mar- ket. “The public will decide what is real and what is a con,” Evans said. “If you look at this property and look at the development, you can only ask yourself, how can it not be a suc- cess?" , i HING FLOOR. 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