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Echoes

Aug 10, 2025 11:16 PM

Metro-One

Aug 11, 2025 1:07 AM

Always enjoy Saskatoon! My favorite city in the Prairies.

Wigs	Aug 11, 2025 2:09 AM

I love me some Saskatoon :cheers:

MolsonExport

Aug 11, 2025 2:20 AM

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...06ddbb68_h.jpg

I once lived in the dark brick building in the upper right hand corner. 10th and Hemlock.

zoomer

Aug 11, 2025 4:42 AM

Thank you Echoes!

Some sweet summer time vibes in those pics - D’lish cafe looks like a place I’d check out.. well, in fact I just did look at their menu. Good prices, and it relates to the Vancouver picture above in a way as they have a Kitsilano Bagel (never knew that was a thing), cream cheese, cucumber and tomato).

MolsonExport - my sister lived on that street many years ago, just a block or two in from your former building. Judging by her building I bet yours was fairly generous in size with hard wood floors. It’s a handy location and we used to walk down to Kits Beach a fair bit from there when I was visiting.

Arrdeeharharharbour

Aug 11, 2025 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10466793)

Wow, great pictures!

As for the Sen̓áḵw towers I almost wish they didn't have functional balconies as they look really cool the way they are now, very organic, like mushrooms growing up the side of a tree.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...791cf870_c.jpg

Mushrooms on a tree by Kylian, on Flickr

Speaking of which, tell me more about those gorgeous bags of mushrooms!!

Regarding the mushrooms, I happened across a street market next to Nelson Park in Vancouver's west end (I think it's west end). It was a lively spot on a Saturday morning. All the different vendors put out a good display but the mushrooms really caught my eye thus the pic.

MolsonExport

Aug 11, 2025 2:57 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10466960)

I loved the location. Steps from Kitsilano, Fairview slopes, and the Granville/Broadway commercial corridors, and also relatively close to Queen Elizabeth Park. The building had carpeting as I recall, but it has probably been renovated since (I moved out in early '96).

Ironically, after moving away (To Steveston), I later ended up working on West Broadway, about two blocks from where I used to live.

ScreamingViking

Aug 11, 2025 11:35 PM

Saskatoon is up there for places to explore, with Victoria, Winnipeg, Halifax, and others.

More Hamilton harbourfront:
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...ize=1200%2C758
Source

whatnext

Aug 13, 2025 7:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport (Post 10466938)

I once lived in the dark brick building in the upper right hand corner. 10th and Hemlock.

Worth noting that the red brick building and almost everything in that Hemlock photo set have targets painted on their back thanks to the ruling ABC Party and their "Broadway Plan". Just another ones of their schemes to give developers unbridled license to bulldoze neighbourhoods to "solve the housing crisis"

someone123

Aug 13, 2025 7:50 PM

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Originally Posted by whatnext (Post 10468150)

I used to live around there too many moons ago. I don't think there's really any conflict between heritage and development as, while there are some nice apartments which should 100% be preserved, most of the lots have little to no heritage character. In theory you could pick out and save the nice ones while building new buildings with more character on the less nice sites. In practice, this doesn't really seem like the norm in Canada.

It really should be done on a building-by-building basis with points awarded for public-facing character. Demolition permits shouldn't be issued for the character buildings, but they should also get a tax break. I believe the highest and best use policy already covers some of this. You could also issue tax credits for maintenance of expensive older buildings.

As an aside, I've often wondered what used to be on a lot of these sites before 1950 or so. I guess most were probably detached housing, but some older apartment buildings must have been torn down. Vancouver has a decent stock of historic apartments overall but they are quite spread out.

Architype

Aug 13, 2025 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by whatnext (Post 10468150)

Vancouver doesn't have much trepidation when it comes to destruction of actual heritage. In my photo of Main Street, is one of the oldest existing commercial blocks outside downtown. There is a proposal for a 25 storey student housing building here where the white building is at center. There may be some facade preservation as suggested in the proposal, but I don't hold too much hope for preservation in the area as a whole.

https://a4.pbase.com/o12/52/479852/1...ngswayMain.jpg

someone123

Aug 15, 2025 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Architype (Post 10468247)

It's too bad. I think this area around Main and Broadway should be a heritage district. The larger buildings are landmarks but the smaller supporting buildings matter also help to establish the character of the neighbourhood.

I am a big fan of making the Broadway corridor denser but if you look at the wider context, this is just a tiny part of the corridor, and there are many appropriate intensification sites even right around Main. Meanwhile, Commercial Drive station, one of the busiest in the whole system, has surface parking around it. Stations farther out like Renfrew and Nanaimo have minimal development and virtually no heritage buildings to worry about.

zoomer

Aug 18, 2025 3:33 AM

ScreamingViking

Aug 18, 2025 4:17 AM

Nice. Victoria seems to be crying out for a streetcar though, even just one line never mind a system.

zoomer

Aug 19, 2025 2:20 AM

A recent bike lane project uncovered a bunch of old street car rail and wood ties just below the surface. I guess the good news was that the roadway was being narrowed and bike lanes being added in on both sides of the road.

The idea of a gondola from the cruise ship terminal to downtown has been floated, as has a gondola from the western suburbs. More realistically the plan is for light rail from downtown to Uptown (about 4 km) but that's years if not decades off. Unfortunately but understandably any provincial lrt/transit money goes to Vancouver and it's hard to argue that when there are still large population centres not connected there. Still it would be wise for the provincial government to invest elsewhere to broaden and diversify the economic base in BC, but the biggest negative impact to Victoria is the ferry service. By that I mean on busy weekends it can totally sell out or people hear about 3 or 4 sailing waits if you don't have a reservation so they don't even try. Not to mention the high cost of ferry travel - one way car with driver and passenger is $115 and if you want to make a reservations add another $20. So for a return trip you're looking at around $250, and it's been a long/widely held belief (can't find the numbers to prove it) that the Victoria route actually makes money, subsidizing some of the smaller routes. A bit frustrating in that we don't expect road users on the island or the lower mainland to fully pay for the cost of driving on the roads/bridges, etc. Anyways, I digress - yes, looking forward to/hoping for mass transit in some form in my lifetime, lol.

kora	Aug 19, 2025 9:54 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10470505)

More realistically the plan is for light rail from downtown to Uptown (about 4 km) but that's years if not decades off.

The big question is do you extend light rail from Uptown (1) to the airport and the ferry or (2) the westshore

zoomer

Aug 20, 2025 12:27 AM

Hey kora!

Uptown to airport is 22.4 km and to the ferry is 28.4 km.

Uptown to Westshore Town Centre is 13.5 km.

Based on that alone, and the population growth being centered along the later's corridor I'd say to Westshore is far more likely. As the Pat Bay Highway goes through a fair bit of agricultural land I would also think dense transit oriented developments are not very likely on this route. The main draw would be the connection to the airport and the ferry. Now if there was a light rain connection from Tsawasssen to Bridgeport on the Vancouver side I could see the temptation to duplicate it on our side, but I think those are long shots. In a perfect world, heck a better world where we could figure out how to build transit more affordably I'd love both options.

Tone	Aug 21, 2025 1:33 AM

Rimouski east side in August - appearing are the convention center's yellowish wall for its expansion and the Quartier Maritime phase 1 redevelopment, the parking lot in front awaiting its turn
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...34d68a00_o.png

kora	Aug 21, 2025 8:45 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10471065)

It's almost certain planners will choose the Westshore route. I would like to see both. Yes, the ferry and airport are far away but the stop density could be quite a bit lower than for the denser Westshore alignment.

I would advocate for a Westshore-UVIC line and a downtown-ferry line with Uptown or McKenzie Avenue as a transfer point.

Architexture

Aug 23, 2025 6:54 PM

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