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Old Posted Jan 26, 2016, 1:34 AM
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Interesting post about the Bay Parkade site on Changing City updates:

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/richards-street-600-block-west-side/
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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster View Post
It's a colossal amount of commercial. Given that the site is roughly 110,000 sq ft that would mean about 770,000 sq ft of commercial. It's too bad 3 view cones bisect the site, otherwise we could have a 200M+ commercial tower here.

Yet another example of how restrictions and viewcone height limits are strangling the growth of downtown Vancouver, especially when it comes to commercial space.