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Old Posted Jan 26, 2009, 6:41 AM
Phil McAvity Phil McAvity is offline
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i still believe in the Ritz, but it does appear that this one will be above ground first, so if the Shangri-La was not here it would become the tallest tower in Van, even if for less than a year, hehe. The theme of the comment is i find this project has been overshadowed, and if it were not for the S-L (and the Ritz) is would have received much more attention on this forum. Simply meaning, 5 years ago this would have been huge.
True dat.

Ritz and S-L are really the attention whores in construction lately. Were it not for them, a lot more people would be microanalyzing others, like this one, the fairmont and the convention centre.

Bottom line? It's a pretty exciting time to be a Vancouver skyscraper wonk.
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