Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 524

hollywoodnorth · #**10461** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 3:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by phesto

Looks like the website for The Views project in Coal Harbour has been taken offline...probably not a good sign...

www.theviews.ca

seems live to me

rsxstock · #**10462** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 4:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

After lots of hard work and money invested Shaw Tower has just been granted LEED Platinum certification (85points well above the 80 needed for Platinum). Believe we're the first building in Canada to gain that certification after the fact.

i really hate the no flush urinals, the stank never goes away

jlousa · #**10463** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 4:27 AM**

No need for no-flush urinals for LEED.

rsxstock · #**10464** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 7:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

No need for no-flush urinals for LEED.

they usually use them for easy points and im just assuming that they did since it's platinum. i dunno what makes up the points for this project though so perhaps they didn't use them

WarrenC12 · #**10465** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 3:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by rsxstock

i really hate the no flush urinals, the stank never goes away

I've been in plenty of bathrooms with flush urinals that stink far worse.

Maybe there's some confusion out there, but all types of bathrooms and urinals need cleaning.

subdude · #**10466** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 8:55 PM**

Tracing the path of Canada Post’s secret mail tunnel

The tunnel beneath Vancouver’s downtown streets will be no more after 50 years as a relic

In expensive and crowded downtown Vancouver, a historic piece of real estate sits empty. It’s been largely out of sight for decades, and now it’s about to vanish.

A 2,400-foot tunnel that runs from the city’s behemoth main Canada Post office on Georgia Street to the Waterfront train station, an early example of mail-delivery technology rendered obsolete, is to be filled in, sealing off a piece of Vancouver’s history.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...osts-secret-mail-tunnel/article15946231/

Klazu · #**10467** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 9:14 PM**

Wow, that is cool information! I would have never thought there is such thing underground!

s211 · #**10468** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 10:07 PM**

It's been a favourite of movie and TV companies for eons.

osirisboy · #**10469** Posted **Dec 14, 2013, 3:13 AM**

Huh. Never ever heard of this! Wow it was only used for 6 years lol

jlousa · #**10470** Posted **Dec 14, 2013, 4:54 AM**

Well 4yrs after the Olympics I proudly present the COVs installation of the Nike Statue.

Hmm guess they missed the Oct 18th deadline... Perhaps council is sending a stern message to Russia.

logan5 · #**10471** Posted **Dec 14, 2013, 5:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by subdude

Tracing the path of Canada Post’s secret mail tunnel

The tunnel beneath Vancouver’s downtown streets will be no more after 50 years as a relic

In expensive and crowded downtown Vancouver, a historic piece of real estate sits empty. It’s been largely out of sight for decades, and now it’s about to vanish.

A 2,400-foot tunnel that runs from the city’s behemoth main Canada Post office on Georgia Street to the Waterfront train station, an early example of mail-delivery technology rendered obsolete, is to be filled in, sealing off a piece of Vancouver’s history.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...osts-secret-mail-tunnel/article15946231/

Too bad these tunnels weren't a little more extensive. They would make excellent bike lanes.

spm2013 · #**10472** Posted **Dec 14, 2013, 5:25 AM**

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idunno · #**10473** Posted **Dec 14, 2013, 1:47 PM**

I've been in that tunnel! They used to run Halloween events through parts of it. Really cool though - I hope they don't actually fill the whole thing in (just the entrances).