Attractions and events you'd like to see in Vancouver...a wish list

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Originally Posted by djh

Going back to the first page of this thread is like digging up a time capsule. Mr. X had some really good ideas in there, and some have actually started to happen (e.g., converting Sears not into just more shops but also into office space, or a new Art Gallery at Larwill Park).

I want a new big plaza/event space, so we can have SK-style winter festivals.

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Sydney's slated to open a zoo later this year, no protests, so the problem seems to be more about animal welfare than a general anti-captivity sentiment.



It's definitely interesting to see all the suggestions. Wouldn't mind an HMS Discovery replica, especially a working one; film/CGI crews could probably rent it out too.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who'd like a natural history museum; a new cultural amenity that goes with Vancouver's nature theme seems like a win-win, especially given our rich fossil and biodiversity record.

WRT available space, I believe the UBC golf course lease will expire within a decade or two. Perhaps both the zoo and museum could be built there, side by side? There's a lot of educational overlap.

It's supposed to remain a golf course until the 2070s. But yeah, a zoo and museum is infinitely better than the most likely scenario of more condos.

Originally Posted by misher

I suspect the horsetrack is probably on the rocks so it’s a good potential site for a zoo. Alternatively the PNE still has a lot of space.

I wouldn't bet on it.
There's always Stanley Park, anyways, and most of the oil refineries in Vancouver are steadily shutting down. Shellburn Zoo would be a pretty good eventual terminus for a Hastings Subway.

Somewhere next to Burns Bog would be difficult to get to via transit, but is really the ultimate location for wildlife restoration. Ioco/Burrard Generating Station would be a decent compromise if you can snap up the rest of the site soon(and build a Gondola from Burnaby Mtn to there). Pac Spirit is good for transit (like Stanley Park), but it seems way too small as a space to release animals into.

Originally Posted by SpongeG

probably too busy with the dailyhive now

Is he Kenneth Chan?

Originally Posted by cairnstone

We are in a no fun city. Disney wanted to build in surrey on the river flats when all the land was for sale when ralphs went tits up. Winn wanted to be a convention center here before the olympics were awarded. Oh there was the new soccer pitch east of waterfront station. Oh and wait we still cant have open wine or beer in a park yet.

And breeding wolves? There is an open hunt on them as they are destroying the wild game in the interior.

Speaking of game saw 3 deer last night in the bog area by the truck pull out

I'm pretty sure the 'river flats' you're talking about is Burns Bog, which is the largest bog of its sort on this side of the Americas. We already got rid of Sumas Lake, we didn't need to get rid of more wildlife habitat.

I saw 2 deer at the park next to the airport. They're everywhere.

I also live next to a beaver dam/ lodge that the Township tore down because they were destroying all the trees.
Seeing beavers in the real is fascinating.

Originally Posted by djmk

I think a Great Wolf Lodge would do really well in Surrey or Abbotsford.

There were plans to put one in Surrey, but it was pulled out, presumably because of money.

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

EDIT: Looks like it is. That leaves the warehouse and parking lot beside them.

The 'warehouse' is the old Emily Carr area Granville Island promised would remain 'institutional'. Don't see the point, but still.

I can't find anything on that original Convention center proposal, so I'm Out of the Loop...

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Because it was only designed to last ten months; after 20+ years, it was mostly rusted through, and the owners decided a teardown would be the cheapest solution.

I mean sure, it looked pretty, but I don't blame anybody for not wanting to spend money on maintaining an empty, not very significant space. A new (and simpler) one would be nice.

That's what I meant by 'replacement'. I know it wasn't supposed to last that long, but the assumption was there'd be a replacement to the covered plaza and performance space, not condo towers. I don't really care for the 'if you replace all the parts, is it still the original' thing. The same happened to Fort Langley- practically none of the stuff there was actually from back in the day.

Also, there's way less significant places City Hall forces to keep for 'historicity' all the time.





The stuff with Hastings Park seems to be proof that there simply isn't enough events/ non- 'green park' public space in Vancouver to begin with.
There's a parking lot behind Pac Colosseum that I don't think there's any plans for.