Who is developing Pearson Dogwood Lands?

Pearson Dogwood Lands is being developed by Onni Group on the approximately 25-acre former George Pearson Centre and Dogwood Lodge site at Cambie Street and West 57th Avenue, Vancouver. Onni is the master developer; the project integrates a BC Housing partnership for the replacement George Pearson Centre long-term care facility on-site, plus Vancouver Coastal Health programming for the health-care components. Confirm the current sales / phase status against the live Onni Group and pearsondogwood.com marketing materials before relying on any sales timeline.

What is distinctive about Pearson Dogwood vs Oakridge Park?

Three differences. (1) Land use mix — Oakridge Park is a transit-oriented mixed-use district anchored by a regional shopping centre redevelopment with a Canada Line station inside the master plan; Pearson Dogwood is a residentially weighted master plan integrated with a fully operational replacement long-term care facility (the original George Pearson Centre lineage), plus supportive housing, on a former BC Housing institutional site. (2) Scale — Oakridge Park is the larger total program; Pearson Dogwood at ~25 acres + ~2,700+ residential units is meaningful but smaller. (3) Transit position — Oakridge Park sits on top of Oakridge–41st Station; Pearson Dogwood sits between Oakridge–41st (~1.5 km north) and Marine Drive Station (~1 km south) — Bill 47 transit-oriented-development zoning radii overlap the site from both stations rather than centring it. The two projects are complements within the Cambie Corridor, not substitutes; buyers comparing presales should price the health-care campus integration and the supportive-housing component as distinguishing features specific to Pearson Dogwood.

When did the master plan get approved?

Vancouver City Council approved the Pearson Dogwood rezoning in 2018, the same year the City adopted the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3. The 2018 rezoning is the controlling municipal document for the master plan's permitted density, building heights, and amenity package; subsequent development permits are issued phase-by-phase against that rezoning. Confirm specific permit and phase status against the City of Vancouver development-application record at vancouver.ca.

How many residential units will Pearson Dogwood deliver?

Publicly cited figures place the total at approximately 2,700 or more residential units across multiple high-rise and mid-rise buildings on the site, phased over the full build-out. The exact figure depends on the per-phase development permits issued against the 2018 rezoning, and the building-by-building program continues to be refined through the City of Vancouver development-permit process. Treat 2,700+ as the publicly cited working figure and confirm the current per-phase number against the live Onni Group marketing materials before underwriting a purchase.

What is the supportive housing component?

Pearson Dogwood includes a supportive housing component delivered alongside the market residential as part of the public-benefit package negotiated through the 2018 rezoning. The on-site replacement George Pearson Centre provides long-term care for adults with complex physical disabilities (continuing the institutional purpose of the original facility), and a separate supportive housing building delivers a non-market tenure tier. Confirm the unit count, operator, and current programming against the City of Vancouver rezoning record and the BC Housing project page.

When do the residential phases deliver?

Phased construction is underway with residential occupancies running through 2026 and beyond — Pearson Dogwood is a multi-year build-out, not a single completion date. Buyers comparing presales should confirm the exact estimated occupancy and warranty start date for the specific building (not the project as a whole) on the disclosure statement, and stress-test the financing math against potential occupancy slippage. Always read the disclosure statement filed with the BC Financial Services Authority before signing.

What schools serve the Pearson Dogwood site?

The site sits in the Vancouver School Board (SD 39) catchment zone for the Cambie Corridor / Marpole area. Sir Winston Churchill Secondary is the publicly cited secondary catchment for much of the surrounding Cambie Corridor — but VSB catchments vary by exact street address and are subject to periodic review. Confirm both the elementary feeder and the secondary catchment for the specific Pearson Dogwood building and unit address through the VSB myschoolfinder tool at myschoolfinder.vsb.bc.ca; never assume a unit a few floors apart in the same complex shares a catchment without checking.

How does the site sit on the Canada Line?

The Pearson Dogwood site is between two Canada Line stations — Marine Drive Station approximately one kilometre south, and Oakridge–41st Station approximately 1.5 kilometres north. That position means the Bill 47 transit-oriented-development (TOD) zoning radii from both stations overlap portions of the site (within the 800 m Tier 3 radius from at least one of the two stations across most of the parcel), but Pearson Dogwood does not sit on top of a station the way Oakridge–41st centres Oakridge Park. The site's transit story is two-station walkability with a meaningful walk to either, not station-adjacency.

What does the unit-supply concentration mean for buyer pricing?

Pearson Dogwood concentrates approximately 2,700+ units onto a single ~25-acre site, phased over multi-year construction. That has two pricing implications buyers should price explicitly: (1) phase-on-phase competitive pressure — multiple Pearson Dogwood buildings will hit completion + warranty start within overlapping windows, which can soften resale pricing on early-phase units when later-phase product is still in active sales; (2) area-level supply absorption — Pearson Dogwood plus Oakridge Park plus the broader Cambie Corridor delivery pipeline materially raises the Cambie / Marpole / South Cambie / Oakridge supply count over the plan horizon. Buyers should not underwrite Pearson Dogwood resale velocity assuming neighbourhood-typical absorption; the supply context is materially different.

Development landing — Cambie Corridor / Marpole

Pearson Dogwood Lands (Vancouver) — Onni Master Plan Buyer Guide

Last reviewed May 10, 2026 by Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR®Sources: Onni Group / pearsondogwood.com, City of Vancouver — Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (2018), BC Housing — George Pearson Centre redevelopment, Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver School Board (VSB / SD 39)CC BY 4.0How we verify

Pearson Dogwood Lands is the Onni Group master-planned redevelopment of the approximately 25-acre former George Pearson Centre + Dogwood Lodge site at Cambie Street and West 57th Avenue, Vancouver — a publicly cited ~2,700+ residential units across multiple high-rise + mid-rise buildings, integrated with a BC Housing-partnered replacement George Pearson Centre long-term care facility, supportive housing, childcare, and community amenity. Vancouver City Council approved the rezoning in 2018, the same year the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 was adopted; phased construction is underway through 2026 and beyond. Companion to the Marpole pillar, the Oakridge pillar, and the South Cambie pillar.

The defendable opinion

Pearson Dogwood is the only master plan on the Cambie Corridor where the “amenity story” is structurally different from the rest. Oakridge Park sells transit-on-top + retail spectacle; the smaller Cambie infill towers sell tenure mix + RM-density math. Pearson Dogwood sells a fully operational long-term care campus integrated with the residential — the replacement George Pearson Centre is not a marketing flourish, it is the historic on-site institution being rebuilt. That single fact reshapes the buyer underwrite: the public-benefit package is unusually heavy, the daytime population mix on the site is permanently more diverse than a pure-residential master plan, and the supply concentration of ~2,700+ units on one parcel materially changes the resale-velocity assumption a buyer should bring to a presale. Buyers pricing Pearson Dogwood like a generic Cambie Corridor concrete tower are mispricing both the differentiation and the supply risk.

Site at a glance

Master developer: Onni Group
Location: Cambie Street + West 57th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
Site area: Approximately 25 acres
Sub-area: Marpole / South Cambie / Cambie Corridor (Oakridge edge)
Council rezoning approval: 2018 (Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 era)
Residential program: ~2,700+ units (publicly cited) · multiple high-rise + mid-rise buildings
Health-care anchor: Replacement George Pearson Centre (BC Housing + VCH partnership)
Public benefits: Supportive housing · childcare · community amenity space
Phasing: Phased build-out through 2026 and beyond
Transit: Marine Drive Station ~1 km south · Oakridge–41st Station ~1.5 km north (Canada Line)

Site history — George Pearson Centre + Dogwood Lodge

The site is the former George Pearson Centre — a long-term care facility operated within the BC Housing / Vancouver Coastal Health framework that for decades served adults with complex physical disabilities — together with the adjacent Dogwood Lodge. The Pearson Centre is widely documented in BC’s institutional and disability-services history, including sustained advocacy around resident self-determination and de-institutionalization. The historical context is not background colour; it is part of why the master plan integrates a replacement long-term care facility on-site rather than relocating the program off-parcel.

The decision to rebuild the Pearson Centre on the same parcel as the new market residential is the single most architecturally and operationally distinctive feature of the master plan. The replacement facility is delivered through a BC Housing partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health programming the health-care services. Buyers comparing Pearson Dogwood against pure-residential master plans should price the daytime population mix, the public-benefit weight, and the long-term institutional anchor as durable and intentional — not as transitional.

Master plan components

The publicly cited program for the full Pearson Dogwood build-out covers four overlapping components. Building-by-building unit counts, heights, and amenity programming are refined through the City of Vancouver development-permit process per phase against the 2018 rezoning — verify the live numbers for any specific phase against the Onni Group / pearsondogwood.com marketing materials and the City development-application record.

Market residential
The publicly cited program is approximately 2,700+ residential units across multiple high-rise and mid-rise buildings phased over the build-out — a substantial concentrated supply on a single ~25-acre master-planned site rather than parcel-by-parcel infill. Confirm building-by-building unit counts, heights, and tenure mix against the live Onni marketing materials for the specific phase.
Replacement George Pearson Centre
A new long-term care + health-services facility built in partnership with BC Housing and Vancouver Coastal Health to replace the original George Pearson Centre — the historic on-site facility for adults with complex disabilities. The integration of a fully operational health-care campus inside a market residential master plan is the single most distinctive feature of the project.
Supportive + non-market housing
A supportive housing component delivered alongside the market residential — a public-benefit deliverable negotiated through the Cambie Corridor + Pearson Dogwood rezoning. Confirm the unit count, operator, and tenure structure against the City of Vancouver rezoning record.
Community amenity + childcare
New community amenity space, childcare, and publicly accessible open space (including a publicly cited urban farm component on portions of the site) form part of the Community Amenity Contribution package tied to the rezoning. Programming is finalized through the City of Vancouver development-permit process per phase.

Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 + Bill 47 TOD context

The 2018 Pearson Dogwood rezoning landed inside the City of Vancouver’s Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 — the controlling municipal land-use document for the broader Cambie spine, which sets density, height, tenure-mix, and public-benefit expectations along the corridor. Pearson Dogwood is one of two master-planned anchors on that corridor (the other being Oakridge Park at Oakridge–41st Station); the rest of the spine delivers as building-by-building infill rezonings against the same plan framework.

Layered on top of the Cambie Corridor Plan is the Province of British Columbia’s Bill 47 transit-oriented development (TOD) framework, which sets minimum allowable density tiers within walking radii of major transit stations. The Pearson Dogwood site sits between two Canada Line stations — Marine Drive ~1 km south and Oakridge–41st ~1.5 km north — so portions of the parcel fall within Bill 47 TOD radii from one or both stations. The relevant practitioner reading: the City of Vancouver rezoning + the Cambie Corridor Plan are the binding documents for what gets built; Bill 47 sits as the provincial floor underneath. Pearson Dogwood’s 2018 approval pre-dates Bill 47, so the project’s approved density was set by the corridor plan, not by the TOD floor.

Schools — VSB catchment for the site

The Pearson Dogwood site sits in the Vancouver School Board (SD 39) catchment zone for the Cambie Corridor / Marpole area, with Sir Winston Churchill Secondary the publicly cited secondary catchment for much of the surrounding corridor. VSB catchments vary by exact street address and are subject to periodic review — the catchment for the specific Pearson Dogwood building and unit address must be confirmed through the VSB myschoolfinder tool at myschoolfinder.vsb.bc.ca before underwriting any school-driven purchase decision. Never assume two units in the same complex share a catchment without checking the live VSB feeder pattern for each address.

Buyer pricing impact — supply concentration + differentiation

Two pricing realities a Pearson Dogwood buyer should price explicitly. Supply concentration: ~2,700+ units on a single ~25-acre site, phased over multi-year construction, means multiple Pearson Dogwood buildings will hit completion + warranty start within overlapping windows. Layered on top of Oakridge Park and the broader Cambie Corridor delivery pipeline, the corridor-level supply absorption story over the plan horizon is materially different from a typical Vancouver West concrete-tower neighbourhood. Buyers should not underwrite Pearson Dogwood resale velocity assuming neighbourhood-typical absorption.

Differentiation: the integrated replacement Pearson Centre + supportive housing + community amenity package is a structurally different product than the pure-residential alternatives on the corridor. That differentiation is durable (the long-term care facility is permanent), and it should price into the buyer underwrite as a meaningful character feature — not get glossed over. The honest practitioner read on a presale shortlist: name the differentiation and the supply concentration as two distinct pricing inputs, not as a single “Cambie Corridor presale” bucket. Run the math both ways.

Frequently asked questions

Who is developing Pearson Dogwood Lands?
Pearson Dogwood Lands is being developed by Onni Group on the approximately 25-acre former George Pearson Centre and Dogwood Lodge site at Cambie Street and West 57th Avenue, Vancouver. Onni is the master developer; the project integrates a BC Housing partnership for the replacement George Pearson Centre long-term care facility on-site, plus Vancouver Coastal Health programming for the health-care components. Confirm the current sales / phase status against the live Onni Group and pearsondogwood.com marketing materials before relying on any sales timeline.
What is distinctive about Pearson Dogwood vs Oakridge Park?
Three differences. (1) Land use mix — Oakridge Park is a transit-oriented mixed-use district anchored by a regional shopping centre redevelopment with a Canada Line station inside the master plan; Pearson Dogwood is a residentially weighted master plan integrated with a fully operational replacement long-term care facility (the original George Pearson Centre lineage), plus supportive housing, on a former BC Housing institutional site. (2) Scale — Oakridge Park is the larger total program; Pearson Dogwood at ~25 acres + ~2,700+ residential units is meaningful but smaller. (3) Transit position — Oakridge Park sits on top of Oakridge–41st Station; Pearson Dogwood sits between Oakridge–41st (~1.5 km north) and Marine Drive Station (~1 km south) — Bill 47 transit-oriented-development zoning radii overlap the site from both stations rather than centring it. The two projects are complements within the Cambie Corridor, not substitutes; buyers comparing presales should price the health-care campus integration and the supportive-housing component as distinguishing features specific to Pearson Dogwood.
When did the master plan get approved?
Vancouver City Council approved the Pearson Dogwood rezoning in 2018, the same year the City adopted the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3. The 2018 rezoning is the controlling municipal document for the master plan's permitted density, building heights, and amenity package; subsequent development permits are issued phase-by-phase against that rezoning. Confirm specific permit and phase status against the City of Vancouver development-application record at vancouver.ca.
How many residential units will Pearson Dogwood deliver?
Publicly cited figures place the total at approximately 2,700 or more residential units across multiple high-rise and mid-rise buildings on the site, phased over the full build-out. The exact figure depends on the per-phase development permits issued against the 2018 rezoning, and the building-by-building program continues to be refined through the City of Vancouver development-permit process. Treat 2,700+ as the publicly cited working figure and confirm the current per-phase number against the live Onni Group marketing materials before underwriting a purchase.
What is the supportive housing component?
Pearson Dogwood includes a supportive housing component delivered alongside the market residential as part of the public-benefit package negotiated through the 2018 rezoning. The on-site replacement George Pearson Centre provides long-term care for adults with complex physical disabilities (continuing the institutional purpose of the original facility), and a separate supportive housing building delivers a non-market tenure tier. Confirm the unit count, operator, and current programming against the City of Vancouver rezoning record and the BC Housing project page.
When do the residential phases deliver?
Phased construction is underway with residential occupancies running through 2026 and beyond — Pearson Dogwood is a multi-year build-out, not a single completion date. Buyers comparing presales should confirm the exact estimated occupancy and warranty start date for the specific building (not the project as a whole) on the disclosure statement, and stress-test the financing math against potential occupancy slippage. Always read the disclosure statement filed with the BC Financial Services Authority before signing.
What schools serve the Pearson Dogwood site?
The site sits in the Vancouver School Board (SD 39) catchment zone for the Cambie Corridor / Marpole area. Sir Winston Churchill Secondary is the publicly cited secondary catchment for much of the surrounding Cambie Corridor — but VSB catchments vary by exact street address and are subject to periodic review. Confirm both the elementary feeder and the secondary catchment for the specific Pearson Dogwood building and unit address through the VSB myschoolfinder tool at myschoolfinder.vsb.bc.ca; never assume a unit a few floors apart in the same complex shares a catchment without checking.
How does the site sit on the Canada Line?
The Pearson Dogwood site is between two Canada Line stations — Marine Drive Station approximately one kilometre south, and Oakridge–41st Station approximately 1.5 kilometres north. That position means the Bill 47 transit-oriented-development (TOD) zoning radii from both stations overlap portions of the site (within the 800 m Tier 3 radius from at least one of the two stations across most of the parcel), but Pearson Dogwood does not sit on top of a station the way Oakridge–41st centres Oakridge Park. The site's transit story is two-station walkability with a meaningful walk to either, not station-adjacency.
What did the site historically house?
The site is the former George Pearson Centre — a long-term care facility operated under the BC Housing / Vancouver Coastal Health framework that for decades served adults with complex physical disabilities — and the adjacent Dogwood Lodge. The historic Pearson Centre is widely documented in BC's institutional and disability-services history, including extended advocacy work around resident self-determination and de-institutionalization. The Pearson Dogwood master plan integrates a replacement Pearson Centre facility on-site, continuing the long-term care role on the same parcel rather than relocating the program off-site.
What does the unit-supply concentration mean for buyer pricing?
Pearson Dogwood concentrates approximately 2,700+ units onto a single ~25-acre site, phased over multi-year construction. That has two pricing implications buyers should price explicitly: (1) phase-on-phase competitive pressure — multiple Pearson Dogwood buildings will hit completion + warranty start within overlapping windows, which can soften resale pricing on early-phase units when later-phase product is still in active sales; (2) area-level supply absorption — Pearson Dogwood plus Oakridge Park plus the broader Cambie Corridor delivery pipeline materially raises the Cambie / Marpole / South Cambie / Oakridge supply count over the plan horizon. Buyers should not underwrite Pearson Dogwood resale velocity assuming neighbourhood-typical absorption; the supply context is materially different.