Downtown Vancouver Updates

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by csbvan

Yeah, I like it, it makes a great fit for that block. It will also add yet more vibrancy to that neighbourhood, especially when combined with the old Pappas furniture building's top to bottom renovation that is currently ongoing. Suddenly there are going to be a lot of students in the Victory Square area.

Pappas made fur furniture?

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

Leased sign on the cafe space........I'm gonna have to call a STARBUCKS ....

any other predictions?

RBC Cafe. Or CIBC Coffee.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by Jebby

Pappas made fur furniture?

I don't know why I typed furniture, I must have had something else on the mind when I made that post

[Klazu]

We may joke about it, but actually Gastown is the last bastion without a Starbucks. It seems that hipsters like their coffee more artisanal.

[Tetsuo]

Originally Posted by Klazu

We may joke about it, but actually Gastown is the last bastion without a Starbucks. It seems that hipsters like their coffee more artisanal.

Water st. and Cambie?

[Klazu]

Ah, you are right and Google Maps is outdated. The bastion has fallen! The cancer has spread everywhere.

[Joseph K.]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

Leased sign on the cafe space........I'm gonna have to call a STARBUCKS ....

any other predictions?

I know for a fact it will be a new indie café from 2 former 49th Parallel baristas (baristi?). Along with Revolver, Timbertrain and Prado, this area is getting spoiled with great coffee!

[officedweller]

Thanks!

The SFU housing building looks good.

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I know that the 800 Burrard condo includes 2 storey lofts - so they're a bit unique in that regard. Not sure if the required percentage of condo owners would be willing to sell. I don't know if the property extends all the way to the corner of Smithe (Winking Judge pub).

WRT 595 Hornby, it's a shame that the Le Soleil property left this site being so narrow.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Klazu

We may joke about it, but actually Gastown is the last bastion without a Starbucks. It seems that hipsters like their coffee more artisanal.

There's been a Starbucks on Water Street for years.

[officedweller]

By Yellow Fever - new sign ?

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

IMG_0380 by Yellow Fever @ SkyscraperCity, on Flickr

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

April 16 '16, my pics

So much uniformity on new buildings in terms of awnings and signage (size, shape, colour, location, etc.). It's very cookie-cutter.

[officedweller]

... and little space for unique signage.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by officedweller

By Yellow Fever - new sign ?

Been up nearly a year now. Looks good but could have been bigger.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by EdinVan

So much uniformity on new buildings in terms of awnings and signage (size, shape, colour, location, etc.). It's very cookie-cutter.

Perfect for the cookie-cutter retail common to commercial space in new builds.

[nova9]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Ah, you are right and Google Maps is outdated. The bastion has fallen! The cancer has spread everywhere.

Wasn't the first Starbucks in Vancouver at Waterfront station? Plus, the startbucks at gastown has been there since the early 2000s. Gastown has been under the opression of the Starbucks empire for almost 2 decades....there before the hipsters....would that then make Starbucks, more hip than the hipsters?

[Vin]

Originally Posted by nova9

Wasn't the first Starbucks in Vancouver at Waterfront station? Plus, the startbucks at gastown has been there since the early 2000s. Gastown has been under the opression of the Starbucks empire for almost 2 decades....there before the hipsters....would that then make Starbucks, more hip than the hipsters?

Before Starbucks set foot here in the 90s, there wasn't really a big coffee/cafe culture in this town among the general public (perhaps people here knew tea better?). That's why folks here lapped up Starbuck's crap coffee then. The same cannot be said about cities back east, such as Montreal.

Therefore I don't see Starbucks as hip, but just a big corporation like Mc Donald's. The newer homegrown cafes that came post-starbucks are definitely way more hip, and the coffee tastier (not the chains like Blenz or Wave, but more unique cafes like JJ Beans, Matchstick, etc).

[dreambrother808]

Coffee preferences are naturally subjective. I can't stand the sour espressos and under-roasted coffees served at these supposedly hipper third wave locations. Starbucks is still my go-to place.

Go to the Roastery in Seattle. That is the future of Starbucks.

[csbvan]

I suppose when you're used to the excessively over roasted sludge from Starbucks, everything will seem under roasted

[trofirhen]

Do they still sell MJB Coffee? It was, IMO, the best ground coffee on the market. No bitter aftertaste. And what was even better .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mHQkBHekGY&list=PLq2p-tSVj-RZUNpe39wvyKQwi1_IeRCV0&index=2

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by csbvan

I suppose when you're used to the excessively over roasted sludge from Starbucks, everything will seem under roasted

Snap.