{"id":192,"date":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/kitsilanos-rental-boom-quiet-downtown-or-second-downtown\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","slug":"kitsilanos-rental-boom-quiet-downtown-or-second-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/kitsilanos-rental-boom-quiet-downtown-or-second-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitsilano\u2019s Rental Boom: Quiet Downtown or Second Downtown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Kitsilano\u2019s Broadway area is entering a major period of change, led by new secured-market rental housing. The Broadway\u2013Arbutus project is under construction and planned to include 256 homes in a 31-storey building, with completion expected in 2029. Nearby, two proposed 22-storey towers at 2244\u20132280 West 6th Avenue could add 416 rental homes, while an approved 22-storey tower at 2260\u20132266 West 2nd Avenue would provide another 176 units. Timelines can shift as approvals and construction progress. Together, these projects raise an important question: will Kitsilano become a second downtown, or remain a quieter urban centre?<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitsilano\u2019s Broadway area is entering a major period of change, led by new secured-market rental housing. The Broadway\u2013Arbutus project is under construction and planned to include 256 homes in a 31-storey building, with completion expected in 2029. Nearby, two proposed 22-storey towers at 2244\u20132280 West 6th Avenue could add 416 rental homes, while an approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammehrbod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}