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Old Posted Mar 26, 2008, 1:50 AM
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Originally Posted by EastVanMark View Post
Thanks for the link.
The difference between Vancouver and most of those cities is that in other cities, they replaced older buildings with larger, more modern ones whereas with Vancouver, they tore the buildings down, and the sites they sat on remained empty for years, some, like the second train terminal STILL having nothing on them.
Not Calgary. There's a ton of empty lots that are now just starting to see action after decades of nothing.
I've always been impressed with the stock of old buildings in Vancouver.
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