Entries from January 2016
Will the Wall Centre tower go back to all black? My City Plumber question this week
March 7th, 2012 · 28 Comments
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What happens when your Vancouver condo gets old and you have to decide whether to pull the plug?
March 5th, 2012 · 39 Comments
It was exciting for me to get to work this year on a story I’ve wanted to do for more than a decade: What is going to happen to Vancouver’s condo buildings at the end of their lives? I thought that perhaps I might be only imagining there could be problems when 150 people and […]
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City stung by Fair Tax Coalition push for zero new taxes
March 5th, 2012 · 32 Comments
When the Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition took out ads last week lobbying for no new property taxes in Vancouver, it might have sounded like the usual rhetoric from business groups about municipal spending: councillors don’t understand the impact of new taxes, municipal spending is out of control, yada yada But that message stung at Vancouver […]
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Sears store at Robson and Granville to close: Your ideas for this key urban space here
March 2nd, 2012 · 106 Comments
The Twittersphere already bubbling with ideas for what to do with our “iconic” bathtub building at one of the city’s key intersections, which started life as Eaton’s, continued for a while as eaton’s, became Sears and will now be ???
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More thoughtful analysis on Rize project from veteran thinkers about Vancouver
March 1st, 2012 · 47 Comments
Picking out a couple of commentaries from the posts in another thread on the Rize, which is generating the most interesting conversation I’ve seen about development and planning in this city than I’ve seen in a long time. The first from Cameron Gray, the former director of the city’s housing centre. The second from historian […]
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