Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 832

SpongeG · #**16621** Posted **Sep 29, 2018, 8:24 PM**

the library project opens to the public thisweekend

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trofirhen · #**16622** Posted **Sep 29, 2018, 8:29 PM**

This is just great!! A real step in the right direction for Vancouver!!

retro_orange · #**16623** Posted **Sep 29, 2018, 8:33 PM**

Cool, lots more space for sketchy people to hang out all day in.

Klazu · #**16624** Posted **Sep 29, 2018, 10:16 PM**

Yeah, I was thinking the same. There is a lot of homeless people hanging around the library space. I hope they won't be allowed to make the new rooftop their space as then nobody wants to go there.

osirisboy · #**16625** Posted **Sep 29, 2018, 10:24 PM**

The libarary has a good size security team that monitors all the public spaces. They are supposed to intervene if say someone is sleeping etc

officedweller · #**16626** Posted **Sep 29, 2018, 10:42 PM**

Personally, I think that they should be allowed to sleep in the colonnade at night
- that would take the pressure off the adjacent condo buildings
- like the 819 (7-Eleven) at Robson & Hamilton.

officedweller · #**16627** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 12:27 AM**

Looks right into TV Towers:

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver.html

memememe76 · #**16628** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 3:04 AM**

I attended the opening today. A wonderful spot. It opens just before it rains the next 6 or so months, but it will be very popular next spring.

I have little concerns about the rooftop garden. I do hope the new washrooms remain somewhat clean. The old ones are so sketchy.

excel · #**16629** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 3:32 AM**

Great picture. Those trees are a beautiful colour.

SpongeG · #**16630** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 9:30 AM**

they are pretty. Are they new?

s211 · #**16631** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 6:01 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klazu

Yeah, I was thinking the same. There is a lot of homeless people hanging around the library space. I hope they won't be allowed to make the new rooftop their space as then nobody wants to go there.

I'm already hearing whispers of a move-in: the thought process is that by not being so visible to most people, there would be less push to shut it down.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**16632** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 6:25 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by s211

I'm already hearing whispers of a move-in: the thought process is that by not being so visible to most people, there would be less push to shut it down.

and this is why we cant have nice things.

whatnext · #**16633** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 11:14 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Personally, I think that they should be allowed to sleep in the colonnade at night
- that would take the pressure off the adjacent condo buildings
- like the 819 (7-Eleven) at Robson & Hamilton.

Or 819 could just get rid of the 7-11. Those and Tim Hortons are magnets for homeless.

officedweller · #**16634** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 7:13 AM**

The Tim Horton's at L'Hermitage on Robson is no longer 24 hours.

Only the McDonalds and the 7-Eleven at Robson & Hamilton are 24 hours now.
But I don't see homeless sleeping at the 7-Eleven at Robson & Granville (maybe too busy an area)

Vin · #**16635** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 7:49 AM**

Hmmm, just chase them out? Doesn't the library have security guards?

retro_orange · #**16636** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 8:16 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vin

Hmmm, just chase them out? Doesn't the library have security guards?

Take it from someone who has worked several jobs at different places that attract homeless/vagrants, keeping them out is like herding cats, they will always try again as they have nothing better to do.

officedweller · #**16637** Posted **Oct 2, 2018, 12:38 AM**

Pics by me today - the Kingston Hotel is being painted salmon pink.
Likely to stand out from the green glass of the Telus Garden complex surrounding it.

The pink with beige columns scheme looks familiar, but I can't quite place it.
I think there's another hotel painted similarly somewhere.

Marshal · #**16638** Posted **Oct 2, 2018, 8:27 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by retro_orange

Take it from someone who has worked several jobs at different places that attract homeless/vagrants, keeping them out is like herding cats, they will always try again as they have nothing better to do.

Or,
Take it from someone who has worked several jobs at different places that attract homeless/vagrants, keeping them out is like herding cats, they will always try again as they have nowhere better to go.

Vanville · #**16639** Posted **Oct 4, 2018, 5:43 PM**

998 Thurlow (Washington Court) is on fire. Ironically the empty apt. building next door (across the alley) is slated for demolition as part of the Buro Ole Scheeren Towers project. According to ChangingCity this is the second time it's had a major fire: https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/washington-court-998-thurlow-street/
My pics today:

officedweller · #**16640** Posted **Oct 4, 2018, 10:53 PM**

Comfort Inn at Granville & Nelson coverting into a boutique hotel and Doolin's closing down

https://vancouversun.com/business/commer...-pub-closing-to-allow-for-boutique-hotel