The Cross Roads Development is located between 8th Avenue and Broadway along Cambie Street in Vancouver. Due to its size, street frontages, sloping topography and ready transit access, the site is ideally suited to a mix of uses. The project houses large-format food and drug stores, commercial retail units, rental office space, a bank, two restaurants, and market residential uses. Located at a major transit node that will accommodate stations for the Canada and Millennium Skytrain lines, the programmatic mix ensures a vibrant urbanism that enhances a viable economic alternative to downtown Vancouver.

The diversity of uses the project will house, as well as a complex series of zoning and developmental restrictions that are unique to its site, made Cross Roads a singular architectural challenge. Two key strategies were employed to ensure the project's success. At an urban design level, all major entrances to the various commercial uses are gathered together at plazas inset from the public sidewalk, to provide an order and purpose to the facades and to focus and intensify pedestrian activity around the site. Secondly, particularly at the scale where architecture interacts directly with the pedestrian, a material palette has been carefully selected to create a family of detailing that is able to respond to specific situations while maintaining an overall consistency. As a result, Cross Roads combines a diverse selection of uses with elegance and sensitivity. The project is targeting LEED silver certification.