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Woodwards Family Housing
 

120 West Cordova St.

Affordable Housing Societies

75

highrise

Occupied since December 2009, this project is part of the redevelopment of the Woodwards Department Store site in downtown Vancouver. The Affordable component of the project houses low and moderate income families in 75 units in the 32-story Abbott Tower, which also houses market condominiums. The site includes 536 market condo units, 125 units for area singles operated by PHS Community Services and 9 accessible apartments for the disabled, operated by the Vancouver Resource Society for the Physically Disabled. The original seven-storey Woodward’s building, constructed in 1903, remains intact to house businesses on the main level and offices on the floors above. Included on the site are a Nesters Food Store and other retailers, the Simon Fraser University downtown campus with its School for Contemporary Arts, a daycare, a public atrium with basketball court and an outdoor plaza. Also featured is a mural depicting the 1971 Gastown riots.