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Originally Posted by osirisboy
Does anyone know why the building beside this with the national bank on the bottom has that weird set back from the street?? And why they stuck that dumb patch of grass in front of it?
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The right-of-way for No. 3 Rd. is very very wide in the area (it narrows for the London Plaza development) because before the 98 B-Line lanes were built in the middle of No. 3 Rd., there used to be a parallel service road to the west of No. 3 Rd. (or is it still there in places?).
Here's a pic from 1986.
The grass strip is not a median - it separates two parallel (two-way) roads (No. 3 Rd. and a parallel service road).
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/BC/Richmond/Town_Centre/1986/001/2
So those areas are probably municipal property and not available for development.
By the time the parcel was developed, No. 3 Rd. ws widened as can be seen here:
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/BC/Richmond/Town_Centre/2005/147/2
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Richmond looking to build a museum -
http://www.richmond-news.com/news/Richmo...m+dream+floated+again/8154103/story.html
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A report due to be presented to a city council committee Tuesday claimed the museum was a “necessary component of a balanced and healthy community,” and that the “city needs a new museum of the highest quality.”
The report is an update of a 2009 destination museum vision — at that time costing $45 million — and recommends building a 75,000 square feet facility on the middle arm of the Fraser River near a Canada Line station.
Rough estimates indicate that such a venue would potentially “break even” financially by its fifth year.
A slightly smaller project, at 60,000 square feet and costing $48 million, would take six years to break even.
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Personally, I think they would do better building a convention centre (with a theatre) near the Canada Line & Cambie - on the riverfront.
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