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Online retail giant Amazon will expand its presence in Vancouver with a new headquarters expected to create 3,000 new jobs in the city. The Seattle-based company made the announcement alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Gregor Robertson at 349 West Georgia Street, the old Canada Post office that will be transformed into a commercial mecca for one of the world's most profitable retailers.
Original plans for the Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership-designed redevelopment of the site saw the post office facade preserved with office and residential towers sprouting above. The current plan eliminates the residential component and presents a simpler architectural scheme that largely does away with the setbacks envisioned in the first concept.
QuadReal Property Group, the real estate arm of The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, is developing The Post, which will feature a 200,000-square-foot retail podium. The 416,000-square-foot Amazon Development Centre represents approximately 35 percent of the project's 1.13 million square feet. Bentall Kennedy is serving as development manager on the project.
Amazon already occupies 156,000 square feet of prime Vancouver office space inside TELUS Garden, which opened in 2015. The company also confirmed last November that it will move into a nine-storey development currently under construction at Dunsmuir and Homer Streets.
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