Project Update
Emily Carr University of Art + Design would like to announce, with the Ministry of Advanced Education and Partnerships BC, that the Applied Arts Team is the preferred proponent for the new campus project at Great Northern Way.
This proponent group will now enter into negotiations with Emily Carr. This milestone marks the next step in the final stages before groundbreaking and will lead to a final announcement in February 2015 when the financial negotiations will be completed.
In 2017, Vancouver will be known for more than rain, and the great outdoors. Emily Carr University of Art + Design will become the heart and hub of a new cultural epicenter.
The preferred proponent, The Applied Arts Team, will now enter into final negotiations with the selection committee and Emily Carr University of Art + Design to establish the final terms so construction can begin in Spring of 2015.
The Applied Arts Team includes:
- Brookfield Financial Corp.
- EllisDon Corporation
- EllisDon Capital Inc.
- Fengate Capital Management Ltd.
- Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated
- Chernoff Thompson Architects
- Johnson Controls Inc.
Our new campus will allow us to be innovative and agile creators and connectors between east and west, art and industry, research and entrepreneurship – growing the creative culture, community and economy. The selection of our preferred proponent allows Emily Carr University of Art + Design to move forward in developing our Big Ideas on how we reshape, reinvent and reinvigorate the Great Northern Way district to become a new cultural hub for the city of Vancouver.
Read the official media release.
On Friday, May 2nd, Emily Carr University hosted Vancouver’s most notable philanthropists and creative economy leaders for a spectacular evening celebrating creativity, our greatest natural resource! Our University’s purpose is to transform creativity in art, design and media into an infinite spectrum of possibilities for our culture as well as for our economy. With such an ambitious mandate, the University has numerous contributors to recognize and thank for their ongoing support. To do just that, on May 2nd, we hosted three distinct yet simultaneous cultural events which mingled festivities for: the launch of 
The Government of British Columbia issued a Press Release announcing Emily Carr University’s major step forward en route to its new home at the Great Northern Way Campus. Today the University released the RFP to the three short-listed proponents preparing submissions to deliver the project. Read the Press Release 
