Downtown Vancouver Updates

[Vanville]

It's a sticky situation indeed. Here is the former location of the Pantages Theatre, photo taken by me today. The replacement (Sequel 138) certainly looks resplendent in it's fine surroundings. I wonder how many International Students have been stuffed to the rafters in those affordable condos:


Nearby we have Oppenheimer Park:


Yes people need homes. And one could argue that the social housing needs to be located throughout the city. However there are so many zombies around Hornby/Helmcken these days, thanks to all the social housing in that area. Build it & they will come. And they just keep coming.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by Vin

Don't businesses and residents have the right to a clean and neat streetfront? Why isn't the City doing anything about this area? I think the City should come with dump trucks to remove everything here once they are brought in.



Consuming ALL drugs is disgusting.

Well, I assume you're straight edge, and don't enjoy the benefits some drugs offer, and that's fine, but disgusting? I quite enjoy a glass of red wine and the odd smoke, thank you very much.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Broken water main on Georgia Street creating a water show.

Originally Posted by mcminsen

source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/water-incident-downtown-vancouver-1.5294881

All fixed.




Sept.25 '19, my pic

fullsizeoutput_8bb3 by mcminsen, on Flickr

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Sept.8 '19, my pics

The new store is fully revealed and open now.



Sept.25 '19, my pic

fullsizeoutput_8bb6 by mcminsen, on Flickr

[Aroundtheworld]

Originally Posted by Vin

What an ignorant and bigoted thing to say.

https://www.lanternfestivalmic.com/

https://www.lanternfestivalmic.com/project/upcoming-zigong-lantern-festival-canada/

How on earth is what I said ignorant or bigoted? The CCP is sponsoring these types of events worldwide and they are doing or have done all of the things I've mentioned.

By the way, my mother is from China and our family has suffered at the hands of the Chinese government.

[Vanville]

[QUOTE=mcminsen;8698584]All fixed.

That was a 100 year old pipe. I wonder how long that's going to last.

In the meantime it's a little bewildering out there, esp for the tourists. Hotels on strike with picketers banging on drums to keep everyone awake. Massive logging trucks blaring their horns, cyclists going the wrong way on the Stanley Park Seawall, lol...Welcome to Vancouver!

My pics

[cairnstone]

I love the story about the local guy in the interview. He stays in the DTES because its to easy to live. Free food cheap drugs and housing. All things that we have created and the word is out Vancouver will feed all of Canada degenerate druggies.



As for the loggers tough tittie, I moved here 25 years ago and do to the softwood lumber agreement logging in Canada was over then. Good ol Glen Clarke decided to retain loggers as Fast Cat welders and shipwrights. Many got into the trade. Well beetle kill fiber recreated a demand for the logs and here we go again. People looking for a handout even though they no they cut all the trees down.

If you work in an industry that is changing would you not take a moment to look at your future and not wait till your layoff papers came before you looked at re educating?

[jollyburger]

Well politicians aren't forward thinkers either so they'll cow tow to anyone they think can gather enough votes to give them money or vote for them.

[rofina]

Originally Posted by cairnstone

I love the story about the local guy in the interview. He stays in the DTES because its to easy to live. Free food cheap drugs and housing. All things that we have created and the word is out Vancouver will feed all of Canada degenerate druggies.



As for the loggers tough tittie, I moved here 25 years ago and do to the softwood lumber agreement logging in Canada was over then. Good ol Glen Clarke decided to retain loggers as Fast Cat welders and shipwrights. Many got into the trade. Well beetle kill fiber recreated a demand for the logs and here we go again. People looking for a handout even though they no they cut all the trees down.

If you work in an industry that is changing would you not take a moment to look at your future and not wait till your layoff papers came before you looked at re educating?

That's easily said - but what do you reeducate to at 40, in a small town, that can feed a family?

You can make the same case for most professions these days, financial advisers, accountants, truck drivers, should they all be looking to retrain as their jobs are likely to be automated in the next decade?

Its all pie in the sky until reality hits, planning ahead sounds great, but the amount of variables to calculate for in this globalised world is near impossible.

We have created an inordinately complicated global network of trade and finance since the post war era. I think a lot of the political inaction, public anger, and general discontent can be traced back to the fact that we have too many complicated multinational agreements and regulation to abide by.

Nothing is as simple as it seems because its all interconnected.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Aroundtheworld

How on earth is what I said ignorant or bigoted? The CCP is sponsoring these types of events worldwide and they are doing or have done all of the things I've mentioned.

By the way, my mother is from China and our family has suffered at the hands of the Chinese government.

Funding from the Cultural department comes from tax payers like your mom's relatives and friends in China. So are they all murderous and insane too? Be careful because your statements stereotype an entire nation and culture.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by rofina

That's easily said - but what do you reeducate to at 40, in a small town, that can feed a family?

You can make the same case for most professions these days, financial advisers, accountants, truck drivers, should they all be looking to retrain as their jobs are likely to be automated in the next decade?

Its all pie in the sky until reality hits, planning ahead sounds great, but the amount of variables to calculate for in this globalised world is near impossible.

We have created an inordinately complicated global network of trade and finance since the post war era. I think a lot of the political inaction, public anger, and general discontent can be traced back to the fact that we have too many complicated multinational agreements and regulation to abide by.

Nothing is as simple as it seems because its all interconnected.

I thought the Okanagan lacks fruit pickers? What about tree planters? Fact is, if one wants to work and survive, one can't starve to death, especially in a country like Canada. In DTES, the people there do have a choice in life, yes, even in their 40s.

[s211]

Originally Posted by rofina

That's easily said - but what do you reeducate to at 40, in a small town, that can feed a family?

You can make the same case for most professions these days, financial advisers, accountants, truck drivers, should they all be looking to retrain as their jobs are likely to be automated in the next decade?

Its all pie in the sky until reality hits, planning ahead sounds great, but the amount of variables to calculate for in this globalised world is near impossible.

Completely agree. It's disconcerting when some seem to think training for a wholesale career change is as simple as taking a basket weaving course at a community college.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by logan5

That’s a left approach too. Is left or right to allow people the freedom to destroy themselves?

Going to hospitals and rehab would have to be voluntary and I don’t think that will happen, so the other option is to charge drug addicts with a crime and forcibly confine them to jail. Very difficult issue to deal with.

Committing suicide is a crime and yet letting a person have the freedom to destroy themselves using drugs isn't. What an irony.

I think forcing people who's too deep in the rut to go cold turkey should be the answer, while at the same time be stricter on enforcing drug smuggling and drug-selling laws. Drug criminals should be treated like murderers.

[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by Vin

Committing suicide is a crime and yet letting a person have the freedom to destroy themselves using drugs isn't. What an irony.

It's a crime to abet a suicide, which is entirely consistent with logan's viewpoint. What sentence do you give to somebody who wants to die?

[officedweller]

Couldn't help notice the water main break is right next to a new digital sign.
Wonder if the construction of the sign footings impacted the pipe (vibration, etc.)?

Originally Posted by mcminsen

All fixed.

Sept.25 '19, my pic

fullsizeoutput_8bb3 by mcminsen, on Flickr

[s211]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Couldn't help notice the water main break is right next to a new digital sign.
Wonder if the construction of the sign footings impacted the pipe (vibration, etc.)?

I'm more amazed that the sign didn't get killed by a little water infiltration.

[Aroundtheworld]

Originally Posted by Vin

Funding from the Cultural department comes from tax payers like your mom's relatives and friends in China. So are they all murderous and insane too? Be careful because your statements stereotype an entire nation and culture.

I never stereotyped Chinese people, I criticized their government and their actions - a government they did not choose I should add.

The fact is this is a CCP-sponsored propaganda event happening at the same time as their 70th anniversary.

This is not about promoting China, this is about celebrating the CCP.

[jollyburger]

Think this hasn't been posted yet.

Bentall Centre to expand by one-third, as owners add 500,000 square feet
New ownership group plans to reposition retail space, lobbies and outside space
By Glen Korstrom | September 26, 2019, 3:34pm

New owners at the commercial real estate hub in downtown Vancouver known as Bentall Centre are planning a transformative upgrade to their four office towers and underground shopping mall.

The plan involves the owners building about 500,000 square feet of space to the current 1.44-million square feet of total floor area, which sits on a five-acre footprint, said Victor Coleman, CEO, president and chairman of Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP) at an Urban Development Institute luncheon September 26.

In all likelihood this would mean an additional office building, as well as expanded retail space.

Los Angeles-based Hudson Pacific Properties and a private equity fund managed by a subsidiary of New York City-based Blackstone Group Inc. (NYSE:BX) bought Bentall Centre earlier this year from Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group Co. Ltd. in a transaction announced in March. Hudson Pacific owns a 20% stake and is the operational manager of the site.

The sale price was not disclosed but Anbang reportedly bought the complex for $1.06 billion in 2016, in what is the largest real estate transaction in Vancouver's history.

“Bentall Centre has the opportunity in the facility itself for us to build at least half a million square feet, and that’s our objective initially,” Coleman said while on a panel. “We’re going to take 1.5 [million square feet] and make it two [million square feet] and grow from there.”

After the event Coleman spoke with Business in Vancouver and said that the changes to the complex’ approximately 140,000 square feet of retail space will be significant.

“We’re in the process now,” he said. “We don’t have a timeline – who knows? We have to design. We’re going to have to get entitlements, permits. Then we’ll effectively do it. The retail is going to be repositioned.

The lobby is going to be repositioned. The outdoor areas are going to be repositioned. It’s all going to be different.”

One big change to the retail space is that there will be a more centralized food court, he said.

“There are multiple food areas and angles. We’re going to make it flow so it is a lot more easy for you to know exactly where the White Spot is, for example.”

He did not reveal how much capital the company would pump into the real estate but he called it a “substantial” amount.

“We’re not putting a budget out in the public.”

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https://biv.com/article/2019/09/bentall-centre-expand-one-third-owners-add-500000-square-feet

[Metro-One]

Exciting... would be nice to have a new tallest office tower...

Also wonder how much this would change Burrard Station?

If a complete rebuild is done one theme I hope they retain / reimplement is the cherry trees.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Exciting... would be nice to have a new tallest office tower...

Also wonder how much this would change Burrard Station?

If a complete rebuild is done one theme I hope they retain / reimplement is the cherry trees.

Just wondering how they squeeze in a tower if they demolish one of the parkades.