520 E 1st Av, Vancouver

Neighbourhood profile

From the 2021 Census, for the small area around this address that Statistics Canada calls a dissemination area (59150750, 1,128 people). Statistics Canada draws these areas; they are not the City's neighbourhoods.

Permit history

1. 2025-05-16 3rd floor & 4th floor Interior alterations to provide improvements to rooms on the third and forth level of this existing Institutional/School use - university or college building on this site. Scope of work: Interior wall alteration to convert of existing graduate studio area into multipurpose rooms and computer lab on the southeast end on level 4. Conversion of critique studio area into classrooms on the southeast end of level 3. OK for field review per City staff. · $600,000
   no contractor listed Issued
2. 2025-01-29 Interior alterations to provide improvements to create ancillary office at A1001 on level 1 of this existing Institutional/School use - university or college building on this site. Scope of work: new walls, doors, windows, and T-Bar ceiling with new lights. Mechanical and electrical elements to be relocated to match the new t-bar ceiling, lighting & sprinkler work. Ok for field review as per City staffom N wall to S wall - Add small window on N wall · $100,391
   no contractor listed Issued
3. 2024-10-15 #D4330 Interior alterations to provide tenant improvements to room D4330 on the 4th floor of this existing School - University building. Scope of work includes relocation of the door, install interior wall, finishes, new wudu station, and electrical upgrades. OK for field review as per City staff · $71,828
   no contractor listed Issued
4. 2024-08-30 2nd floor (D2310 and surrounding rooms) Interior alterations to provide improvements to the ancillary office at D2310 on the second level of this existing Institutional/School use - university or college building on this site. Scope of work; Minor renovations to the office area of D2310, including new walls, doors, windows, and T-Bar ceiling with new lights. Mechanical and electrical elements to be relocated to match the new t-bar ceiling. REVISION #1: Reducing the number of offices in area 2323/2312A from 3 down to 1 and other interior layout changes. - Aug 14/25 - LLL · $172,821
   no contractor listed Issued
5. 2023-04-06 Interior alterations to install a totem pole in the lobby of this existing School - University building. Scope of work includes constructing the totem concrete base and seismic restraint. · $200,000
   Klondike Contracting Corporation Issued
6. 2021-06-02 interior alterations to create new office rooms, D1325 - 1st Level, B2153 - 2nd level, B3171 - 3rd level and B4112 - 4th level in this existing 4 storey Institutional (Emily Carr University of Art & Design) building on this site. Scope of work includes: alterations on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th level to remove bulkhead, drop ceiling, light fixtures, shelving and equipment; new partitions, doors and new power and HVAC work to create 4 new office rooms; relocate/re-use existing light fixtures OK for Field Review as per City staff: ~ Energy Upgrade: Exempt (Base Building 90.1-2007 or better) ~ Building Sprinklered – Building inspector to determine on site if a separate sprinkler permit is required. · $140,000
   no contractor listed Issued
7. 2019-09-17 Interior alterations and change of use from retail (E) to restaurant (A2). This is a first tenant TI to this space scope of work includes a new mechanical mezzanine. Occupant load 53 people. Class 2 cooking (non-grease laden vapours). 2014 VBBL. · $565,000
   no contractor listed Issued
8. 2019-07-08 Interior alteration to provide tenant improvement for this existing office in this institutional building on this site. Scope of work includes installing non-loadbearing walls to create separate offices. Okay for field review as per City staff.1-2007 or better · $100,000
   no contractor listed Issued
9. 2017-07-28 Interior alteration for Kitchen Tenant Improvement work on level 2 of the existing building - Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Kitchen System Notes: Class 1 Cooking (Grease-Laden Vapours): 1.\tClass 1 cooking operations (Grease-Laden Vapours). 2.\tCommercial kitchen exhaust system to NFPA 96 (Type 1 hood). · $92,000
   no contractor listed Issued
10. 2017-06-22 To develop on this site a one-storey retail building, and a new public plaza, all over three levels of underground parking providing a total of 502 parking spaces having vehicular access from Carolina Street. see BU467708 - site permit for review clearance
    no contractor listed Issued
11. 2017-06-02 To construct a new four-storey school for the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
    no contractor listed Issued

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