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The St. Paul’s Hospital site in Downtown Vancouver has quietly been put up for sale. But details are hard to come by.

The site is being marketed by CBRE, which declined to comment on the record because “it’s a deal in progress.” There is no dollar figure on a sales brochure for the property, but the 6.6-acre site has an assessed value of $784,054,000.

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The hospital takes up almost two blocks between Burrard, Thurlow and Comox streets and See-em-ia Lane, behind Davie Street. This works out to 292,235 square feet of land.

The brochure says the property has an FSR (floor-space ratio) of 6.6, which means in theory you could build 1,928,751 sq. ft. on the site. But a city spokesperson said various factors may limit the square footage to 1.4 million.

“Based on some very preliminary analysis and taking into account view corridors, shadow analysis of nearby parks, on-site open space, heritage retention, tower form and separation, and transportation requirements, it is anticipated that the density achievable on the site under the existing zoning could be in a range of roughly 1.4-million sq. ft. gross floor area,” said a city spokesperson in an email.