Project: Terry Fox Way Project
Location: From Expo Boulevard to Pacific Boulevard
Start Date: 2013/10/15
Status: Road Closure
Description: This project is an expansion of Smith Street from Pacific Boulevard to Expo Boulevard. Road will be closed to all traffic starting October 15, 2013.
The LED screen is half removed, it's made up of square panels. You can see the inside of the structure from the front for now, looks well made and hopefully easy to get most of the money back that was initially spent on it.
Someone please start a new thread for this already. Good to see a 5-star J.W. Marriott coming in town. Is that their flagship or does Ritz-Carlton go above it? I would think they are equal flagship brands in their hotel portfolio.
Someone please start a new thread for this already. Good to see a 5-star J.W. Marriott coming in town. Is that their flagship or does Ritz-Carlton go above it? I would think they are equal flagship brands in their hotel portfolio.
Seems about the same with more continental US Ritz-Calrtons and they also have their Bulgari partnership hotels.
According to the last published report, the casino has not yet received final clearance. The Development Permit Board issued a permit on the condition that the casino come-up with a plan regarding vague notions about — addiction and public health safeguards to the satisfaction of city council. Council was supposed to have decided on that issue in January 2014. To my knowledge, the city has still not signed-off. The current work is being done with a temporary permit which allows some limited preparatory work. In fact, in one of the news articles above, it even mentions that the casino had to put-up money to pay for the reversal of the work been done in case the city does not sign-off on the full permit.
But maybe someone has some news that the city has finally agreed that the casino has satisfied the DPB's unusual conditions.
According to the last published report, the casino has not yet received final clearance. The Development Permit Board issued a permit on the condition that the casino come-up with a plan regarding vague notions about — addiction and public health safeguards to the satisfaction of city council. Council was supposed to have decided on that issue in January 2014. To my knowledge, the city has still not signed-off. The current work is being done with a temporary permit which allows some limited preparatory work. In fact, in one of the news articles above, it even mentions that the casino had to put-up money to pay for the reversal of the work been done in case the city does not sign-off on the full permit.
But maybe someone has some news that the city has finally agreed that the casino has satisfied the DPB's unusual conditions.
Does the casino actually need city approval, though? It's on provincial land.
The second hotel will be the Autograph brand of the Marriott. The plan is to be open and operating on the September 2016 date(optimistic) but actually expect to be open December.. That's their logic/thinking.
The second hotel will be the Autograph brand of the Marriott. The plan is to be open and operating on the September 2016 date(optimistic) but actually expect to be open December.. That's their logic/thinking.
Both those dates are very optimistic. It's almost 2015 and there has been no work done at all. It probably won't be fully excavated till halfway through 2015 and up to grade by the end of 2015. I can't see how they'd build all the floors as well as outfit the entire interior in just one year to be open by December 2016.
Isn't it interesting how the original windows on BC Place where a copper colour and they were replace with blue... and now the new casino/hotel will be copper! It just shows how trends go full circle.
Wish our stadium / casino / hotel complex could have a couple LED screens. Seems like every other city in Canada has screens on their recent stadium related tower projects...
Wish our stadium / casino / hotel complex could have a couple LED screens. Seems like every other city in Canada has screens on their recent stadium related tower projects...
The stadium had 3 giant screens. They already tore one down for where the casino is going.
The Terry Fox plaza screen is about 50% Terry Fox stuff and 50% ads. The rest are/were 100% ads... not sure why people want to see more ads.
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Good to see a 5-star J.W. Marriott coming in town. Is that their flagship or does Ritz-Carlton go above it? I would think they are equal flagship brands in their hotel portfolio.
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