Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 241

nova9 · #**4801** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 3:35 PM**

I see. Well welcome...enjoy the rain. It'll be depressing for a bit but then when you notice how nice your skin gets, you'll surely appreciate it.

The thing with considering Broadway corridor downtown means you'd have to consider Fairview and all of that part that is super sloped downtown as well then. And that just doesn't jive. And if you don't then you can't say an isolated section that's not contiguous with the downtown peninsula as part of downtown.

To each their own but how would one react if you told a taxi to take you 'downtown' and they dropped you off along Broadway?

sacrifice333 · #**4802** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 4:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

To be honest i dont think we can definitively say 10th and main is not downtown. Many people view the broadway corridor as a part of downtown, and where the corridor ends is certainly up for interpretation.

I got chastised for posting an update on Pine on 8th in the Downtown Updates thread.

hollywoodnorth · #**4803** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 4:56 PM**

Broadway is in the METRO CORE. But not technically downtown

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and link http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/corejobs/index.htm

sacrifice333 · #**4804** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 6:00 PM**

Hmmm... time for thread name changes?!

SpongeG · #**4805** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 8:15 PM**

city hall is there its usually considered "downtown"

LeftCoaster · #**4806** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 8:21 PM**

Like I said, there is no clear cut answer....

I just think it is unfair to jump on someone for posting in here since the interpretation is so ambiguious, regardless of your stance on the manner.

mr.x · #**4807** Posted **Nov 13, 2009, 9:40 PM**

QE Theatre renovations look great, it's about to reopen!

Locked In · #**4808** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 2:10 AM**

Sneaky photo I took today of the almost-open Red Card Sports Bar, at Seymour and Smithe. I can make out a pizza oven and some bagged disco-balls...

SFUVancouver · #**4809** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 2:30 AM**

^ Re: Red Card Sports Bar

Where is that located exactly? I cannot really picture where a space like that might be.

Thanks for the covert photography.

delboy · #**4810** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 2:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

^ Re: Red Card Sports Bar

Where is that located exactly? I cannot really picture where a space like that might be.

Thanks for the covert photography.

next ot uva wine bar at seymour and richards.

I also note that in Kits the Old Malones looks set to open as 'Local' looks pretty sharp.

Denscity · #**4811** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 2:55 AM**

City hall is not downtown. Downtown means "tower area" in most cities.

nova9 · #**4812** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 3:09 AM**

Rather than expand downtown because City Hall is all the way on 12th and Cambie, I'd actually say that City Hall is unique in that it is located out of downtown.

Oh semantics.

GeeCee · #**4813** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 3:23 AM**

IMO as a suburbanite - anything on the peninsula is Downtown Vancouver. Anything else in Vancouver is just Vancouver.

hrhsheba · #**4814** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 5:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeeCee

IMO as a suburbanite - anything on the peninsula is Downtown Vancouver. Anything else in Vancouver is just Vancouver.

as a denizen of "the penninsula", I concur.

ckkelley · #**4815** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 5:29 AM**

Anything on the south side of any of the bridges I don't think can be considered downtown.

Architype · #**4816** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 5:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by quobobo

^ Not downtown - it was mentioned in some of the other threads.

I noticed everyone pointing out that Main & Broadway is not downtown; interestingly enough CTV National News reported the fire as being "downtown Vancouver", which I though was funny. Perhaps from the perspective of Toronto, we may as well say it's downtown for simplification. I do sometimes think of Broadway as being relatively downtown in a loose definition, after all the environment is "downtown-like", but is mostly just seperated by geography.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Denscity

City hall is not downtown. Downtown means "tower area" in most cities.

So, if the "tower area" expands, say, all the way around False Creek to meet Broadway, does the downtown then become larger to include that area ?

Also, the West End is sometimes called downtown, but is known to be seperate by most definitions.

SpongeG · #**4817** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 5:41 AM**

what does it matter anyway?

sometimes we call broadway corridor uptown

Architype · #**4818** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 5:53 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpongeG

what does it matter anyway?

sometimes we call broadway corridor uptown

I actually found it a bit upsetting when Lloyd Robertson said the fire was in downtown Vancouver. I live in Mt Pleasant, and should have been rather pleased to know that I am now living downtown.

I like the uptown label too, but have never heard it used in reference.

vancityrox · #**4819** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 7:32 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpongeG

city hall is there its usually considered "downtown"

THANK YOU! I WAS RIGHT! ....lol

EdinVan · #**4820** Posted **Nov 14, 2009, 7:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Have you ever actually seen St. John's in person? A rather interesting piece of ecclesiastical architecture from the Seventies, which is a sub-type rather lacking in Vancouver and quite unexpected in the West End. I'd much rather see that preserved than yet another bland glass tower.

I agree.