Partners
Southwynd Place is delivered on behalf of the Society by a development lead, a design team, and public and community funding partners.
- Development and Financing Lead
- Purpose Driven Development
- Design
- GBL Architects; Gauthier & Associates Landscape Architecture
- Approvals
- City of Vancouver
- Funding
- Public, community and credit union partners
Development
Development and financing lead
Kiwanis-Soroptimist is partnered with Purpose Driven Development as Development and Financing Lead. The team brings decades of development expertise across private, public and nonprofit sectors.
Non-profit housing partnership
Purpose Driven Development and Soroptimist International of Vancouver are partners on Soroptimist House, affordable homes for women on West 13th Avenue.
Purpose Driven Development
Funding
Funding and financing partners
Kiwanis-Soroptimist and Purpose Driven Development have secured funding and financing from Vancity Community Foundation, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, CMHC, Vancity Credit Union and BC Housing. These commitments support feasibility and successive stages of development as the project advances.
Federal and national
CMHC
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Provincial
BC Housing
Community finance
Vancity Credit Union
Vancity Community Foundation
Design
Design team
The project's design is led by GBL Architects, with landscape architecture by Gauthier & Associates.
GBL Architects
Gauthier & Associates Landscape Architecture
Approvals
Approving authority
The City of Vancouver approved the rezoning of 8080 Yukon Street and enacted the Housing Agreement By-law for the site.
City of Vancouver
8080 Yukon Street on Shape Your City
The Society that owns Southwynd Place is described on the Ownership & Governance page
Latest milestone
Rezoning enacted: Southwynd Place moves to permitting