Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 858

officedweller · #**17141** Posted **Apr 8, 2019, 8:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

Gotcha and thanks. Ahh yes, Phase 3 of Yaletown right up to Granville Bridge are the ones with the vacant social housing lots. But it still doesn't explain how they could not gather up enough funds to build at least one building. They could channel CDCs from other developments all over the city to fund the housing. There have been many misplaced priorities for between 15 to 20 years.

Because social housing is a Federal and /or Provincial responsibility - not the City's.
There was an ideological gap.

There was also a dispute:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...n-affordable-housing-plan-was-inevitable

Changing City · #**17142** Posted **Apr 10, 2019, 4:38 AM**

There's an interesting conversion/addition planned for an old warehouse on West Pender. The upper floors become office, a possible restaurant on the main floor, and 16 rental apartments in a two floor addition on top. Source - and a few more details here.

mcminsen · #**17143** Posted **Apr 10, 2019, 6:34 AM**

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April 2 '19, my pics

April 9 '19, my pic

mcminsen · #**17144** Posted **Apr 12, 2019, 9:46 AM**

St. Andrews Wesley United Church at the corner of Nelson and Burrard is now closed and fenced off for it's repairs/restoration/seismic upgrade. Could be eighteen months to two years.

April 10 '19, my pic

osirisboy · #**17145** Posted **Apr 12, 2019, 2:29 PM**

Wow looks bette without the plexiglass all over the stain glass windows. I have no idea why all the old churches in metro Vancouver do this

jlousa · #**17146** Posted **Apr 12, 2019, 3:14 PM**

I can safely say that it's because replacing stained glass windows is expensive and a major inconvenience. It's not like they just decided to cover them up for no reason. They got tired of replacing them.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**17147** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 2:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Wow looks bette without the plexiglass all over the stain glass windows. I have no idea why all the old churches in metro Vancouver do this

because people break them. same people who take ball-peen hammers to the glass blocks for areaway basements under sidewalks.

osirisboy · #**17148** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 2:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

because people break them. same people who take ball-peen hammers to the glass blocks for areaway basements under sidewalks.

No. I understand why. My point is why is it just here. Maybe building insurance here requires it

osirisboy · #**17149** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 2:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

I can safely say that it's because replacing stained glass windows is expensive and a major inconvenience. It's not like they just decided to cover them up for no reason. They got tired of replacing them.

Why is it every single church in all the cities in Vancouver. But any other city outside of Vancouver I have never seen plexi glass

Has no one else noticed this? Lol

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**17150** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 4:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

No. I understand why. My point is why is it just here. Maybe building insurance here requires it

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Why is it every single church in all the cities in Vancouver. But any other city outside of Vancouver I have never seen plexi glass

Has no one else noticed this? Lol

Vancouver has a higher concentration of homeless, drug addicts, and general scofflaws. these are the same people who break the glass blocks in the side walks, break parking meters, and go general damage to others properties for no other reason then "why not."

with a higher concentration of these types, you get more property/petty crime. in Vancouver, we just cant have nice things; that is just a fact of the type of people who are here.

SpongeG · #**17151** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 5:29 AM**

It's crazy that we let a minority of people live and do whatever they want. They can spit on people, break things, do drugs openly wherever they want, basically harass people if they come into "their" part of town, yell at people, assault people, grab people's cameras/belongings etc and build an industry around them.

retro_orange · #**17152** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 5:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

It's crazy that we let a minority of people live and do whatever they want. They can spit on people, break things, do drugs openly wherever they want, basically harass people if they come into "their" part of town, yell at people, assault people, grab people's cameras/belongings etc and build an industry around them.

and expect you to give them money.

retro_orange · #**17153** Posted **Apr 13, 2019, 6:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

Vancouver has a higher concentration of homeless, drug addicts, and general scofflaws. these are the same people who break the glass blocks in the side walks, break parking meters, and go general damage to others properties for no other reason then "why not."

with a higher concentration of these types, you get more property/petty crime. in Vancouver, we just cant have nice things; that is just a fact of the type of people who are here.

They do it for several reasons like prevent vandalism and damage from storms but a big one is energy efficiency, stained glass windows slowly sag as the lead 'came' deforms from the weight of the window above and slowly opens up many small holes throughout the pane where solder fails.

I used to work in The Dick Building from the late 20's at the corner of Granville and Broadway, the stained glass windows in the stairwell were in poor shape and badly distorted at the bottom, ready to collapse but Colliers didn't care to fix them. On a windy day you could feel serious air flow in the stairwell.

https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/33-stained-leaded-glass.htm#deterioration

mcminsen · #**17154** Posted **Apr 14, 2019, 6:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by x32ace

I've been meaning to post these images for a while. This is what the redeveloped 401 W Georgia south plaza is to look like after renovations.

They've been gradually fencing off the plaza for the last week.

Work has also begun on the lobby renovations. I've included an image of that too.

Images are courtesy of Oxford.

401-Plaza by Lots Pictures, on Flickr

401-Aerial by Lots Pictures, on Flickr

Lobby:

401-Lobby by Lots Pictures, on Flickr

As seen today from the library roof.

April 13 '19, my pics

fredinno · #**17155** Posted **Apr 14, 2019, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

As seen today from the library roof.

April 13 '19, my pics

This is supposed to connect to the building in the back?

Changing City · #**17156** Posted **Apr 14, 2019, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by fredinno

This is supposed to connect to the building in the back?

Eh? There's a render a couple of posts back. It's a re-vamp of the existing plaza to make it more useable, with a café in the podium to the west.

Vin · #**17157** Posted **Apr 14, 2019, 11:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Wow looks bette without the plexiglass all over the stain glass windows. I have no idea why all the old churches in metro Vancouver do this

Yahoos love throwing stuff to destroy glass doors and windows in this city. I've seen countless businesses having their doors and windows smashed in here.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**17158** Posted **Apr 14, 2019, 11:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

Yahoos love throwing stuff to destroy glass doors and windows in this city. I've seen countless businesses having their doors and windows smashed in here.

it is the exact same reason the City doesn't allow the area-ways to have glass blocks anymore. or at least not the old original style made of cast iron.

people with ballpeen hammers smash them, literally just because they can for fun. then the cast iron rusts and they become a hazard for collapsing and injuring people walking over them.

fredinno · #**17159** Posted **Apr 15, 2019, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Eh? There's a render a couple of posts back. It's a re-vamp of the existing plaza to make it more useable, with a café in the podium to the west.

I'm not familiar with the area. The render looked like it is, but I wasn't sure. So yes?

(Sorry)

Changing City · #**17160** Posted **Apr 15, 2019, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by fredinno

I'm not familiar with the area. The render looked like it is, but I wasn't sure. So yes?

(Sorry)

No problem! It's a bit unusual, because the site is a the entire half block, from Georgia to Dunsmuir. There's a 1984 office building - 401 W Georgia - in the middle, a small plaza on West Georgia (that's losing it's 'screen' and getting a makeover) and there was another plaza on the Dunsmuir end with a single storey structure adjacent to the tower. That's being redeveloped as a 10 storey office building, that will be addressed as 402 Dunsmuir. They're pouing the 10th floor, or thereabouts, and Amazon have leased it all. That will have some retail at grade.