Six Greater Victoria developments were recognized at the 2025 Vancouver Island Building Industry Awards, held by the Urban Development Institute's Capital Region wing on Friday, May 30.
The sold-out gala at the Royal BC Museum and IMAX Theatre brought together over 300 industry professionals for an evening of recognition, connection, and celebration.
Winning the Outstanding Purpose Built Rental Development award is Cascadia Architects and Empresa Properties for The Monashee on Burdett Avenue in Victoria's Fairfield neighbourhood. The Monashee boasts 42 luxury units and "integrates elegant curved urban architecture among a classic Victoria streetscape," according to the property manager, Devon Properties.
Omicron, a Vancouver-based architecture and development firm, won the Outstanding Industrial Development and the Outstanding Community Contribution awards for two industrial projects in Colwood: Wildcat Industrial and the Allandale District, both parallel to each other on Allandale Road. Omicron Developments purchased a 20-acre parcel in Colwood in 2019, transforming into a thriving commercial centre now known as the Allendale lands.
Cascadia also took awards for Outstanding Mixed-Use Development for The Redfern on Oak Bay Avenue, 29 units with a locally owned coffee shop and pharmacy in the commercial spaces, and Outstanding Office Development for the Plexxis Software building in Langford, a six-storey office complex on Westhills Drive.
The 2025 winner of the Outstanding Adapting Reuse went to Cascadia Architects for the Queenswood Daycare at the University of Victoria's Queenswood campus on Arbutus Road, which was created following the renovation of the former Queenswood Chapel.
