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More on the fight between condos and other uses

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

For those who don’t think to click on the comments sections here, I had a couple of interesting responses to those who read my recent post that linked to a story about condos taking over New York commercial and industrial land. Here they are. It’s interesting and not surprising to see this happening. San Francisco, [...]

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Businesses and industry lose out to condos again — in New York

August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

For the last couple of years, there’s been much agonizing over whether condos are encroaching too much on the downtown, the invasive species of the development world choking out commercial and industrial uses wherever they go. People often talk as though this is something unique to Vancouver, the product of its policy of promoting housing [...]

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Why are there no more apartments being built?

August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

After I posted my little vignette about the trauma of renting my basement suite (hundreds of calls from desperate people), I got a couple of comments from people who went through similar experiences recently, at either end of the rental trauma. I also got this question from regular correspondent RossK: “Sure would be interested in [...]

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