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More east Vancouver development planned

Residential, office space would add to growth at old Evergreen Airport

By , Columbian Business Reporter
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A proposed retail development called The Landing has seen only the Hampton Inn &amp; Suites land at the former Evergreen Airport at Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard and 136th Avenue. Another developer recently submitted office and residential plans for an empty swath just north of The Landing.
A proposed retail development called The Landing has seen only the Hampton Inn & Suites land at the former Evergreen Airport at Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard and 136th Avenue. Another developer recently submitted office and residential plans for an empty swath just north of The Landing. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

The city’s going to need an air traffic controller to manage all the development about to land at the old Evergreen Airport.

In addition to the planned retail center called “The Landing” at Mill Plain Boulevard and 136th Avenue — the area around the new Hampton Inn and Suites — a developer this month submitted plans for a residential and office development just to the north, off of Fourth Street and what will be 137th Avenue.

“It’s exciting, it’s very exciting to see folks building and bringing new businesses to the east side — it has an impact on everybody’s ability to do business,” said Kris Greene, a board member of the East Vancouver Business Association. “We have a great community out here, and it keeps getting better.”

Evergreen MX Investments LLC is looking to build 33 “live/work” units, a 2,000-square-foot office building and 63 town homes on nearly 17 narrow acres nestled between single-family homes and businesses between Northeast Fourth and Ninth Streets, according to documents submitted to the city May 9.

The plan involves building 137th Avenue on the western edge of the strip, with 10 feet of landscaping separating the street from the post office and an office housing Charter Communications.

Two airplane hangars remain on the site, the last vestige of a small and well-loved private airport that operated from 1945 to 2006.

A representative for the Evergreen MX LLC, Patrick Ginn, did not respond to emails or calls for comment.

The Landing update

Meanwhile, development is slow to come to fruition at The Landing, a 59-acre plot around where the Hampton hotel opened in 2014.

While east Vancouver’s retail centers and subdivisions continue to fill up, the former airstrip along the busy Mill Plain Boulevard remains remarkably green.

In 2011, The Columbian reported that development for The Landing was taking off.

“It could take five years, but starting now makes sense,” commercial broker Deborah Ewing said at the time.

On Thursday, the listed broker for The Landing, Elaine Gesik-Nusser, declined to answer questions about the development, and a call to a representative of Hawthorn Development LLC, which has been connected to the property, went unreturned.

Greene said the development was one more plus for the booming area, though it has one downside.

“The more businesses out here, the greater the ripple effect,” he said. “The only concern I have personally is the traffic on Mill Plain.”

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