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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Our Aquarium is world class.
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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
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Top 10 lists are subjective and often-contested as it is. One that was chosen by popular vote from a seemingly North American audience, even more so.
I mean I love the crap out of our Aquarium, but on a global scale, it's undeniably lacking. Let's get a shark tunnel or a five megalitre tank before we think about calling it "world class."
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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Nobody is building a new zoo these days, and not in this Enviro-hippy part of the world.
Victoria is home to the Royal BC Museum, so we aren't getting another one of those either. We are one of the youngest cities on the planet. We'll never compete in a historical/culture sense. We've got mountains, skiing, hiking, camping.
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True, and there's no space for a zoo even if we wanted one.
Not duplicating per se; the Royal BC is 1/3rd Museum of Victoria (which is useless to us) and 1/3rd First Nations galleries (which is already covered by our MoA).
Budget willing - think I've said this before, but whatever - we could do a dedicated Natural History Museum just fine. No reason why BC's fossils should all go to Ontario. Add some exhibits about evolution and BC's biodiversity, and it ties into the nature theme we're going for. Or an Art and Science Museum like Singapore's; they've done everything from a DreamWorks behind-the-scenes to a Titanic artifact display to a National Geographic photo gallery. Like the broom closet in Science World that gets seasonal galleries, but exhibit-sized.
We can also build more theatres, more art displays, more music and performance spaces. Come on, just because Vancouver's only had about a century and a half to develop our identity doesn't mean we just give up and go with "trees and volleyball."
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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
I think a Great Wolf Lodge or similar would do well in Squamish, but what do I know.
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Or Surrey. Either one should do fine.
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Originally Posted by GMD
Interesting discussion but largely irrelevant to the initial study which mainly just said that there's not a lot of tourists/conference attendees in Vancouver because it is in the middle of nowhere geographically and much smaller in size than many of the comparison cities.
E.g. Yes, there are more non-stop flights from Manchester than Vancouver, but that's because there are 10x more destinations in range there vs. here. Yes Hong Kong gets more international visitors than Vancouver does - how on earth could you possibly expect anything else, etc. Nothing to do with Uber or petting zoos or people's pet causes they want to project onto this.
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Fair enough,
BUT we can still make sure that people like our city
as a city.
That should be the Big Vision: come to Metro Vancouver, not just as a layover, not just for the outdoors around it, but because we've made it into a city worth spending time in.
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