B6 (1090 W Pender) | 123m | 31Fl | Completed - Page 14

s211 · #**261** Posted **Oct 3, 2019, 3:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

It is a bit. It seems just as odd that b5 wasn't called something else after it was sold off - at least in this case it's still Bentall (or more accurately, it's successor, which these days is part of Sun Life) involved in the development.

There's still a legacy cache of sorts with the Bentall name in the local market, even though the Bentall company hasn't actually owned Bentall Centre for something like over a decade now, and that complex still bears the Bentall name, for example.

officedweller · #**262** Posted **Oct 3, 2019, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

And that's where they got the "B" to re-do the signage to read B5.

They re-used the same letter?
Reduce, reuse, recycle...

s211 · #**263** Posted **Oct 3, 2019, 9:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

They re-used the same letter?
Reduce, reuse, recycle...

That's what a Bentall person told me.

Galaxy · #**264** Posted **Oct 4, 2019, 2:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by s211

That's what a Bentall person told me.

I would love to see all the Bentall buildings all [including the B5 and others] connected via the underground retail spaces. It's not like most people even notice what the sign on top of a building says anyways.

jollyburger · #**265** Posted **Oct 4, 2019, 5:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

They re-used the same letter?
Reduce, reuse, recycle...

The B in the Bell logo has a smaller round part on the top of the B compared to the B currently on B5 I think..

s211 · #**266** Posted **Oct 4, 2019, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

The B in the Bell logo has a smaller round part on the top of the B compared to the B currently on B5 I think..

I'm just going on what a rather high-placed person at Bentall told me.

LeftCoaster · #**267** Posted **Oct 15, 2019, 7:15 PM**

It was definitely the B from the old Bell signage.

Their old logo until the mid 90s or early 2000s had just a regular B.

jollyburger · #**268** Posted **Oct 15, 2019, 7:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

It was definitely the B from the old Bell signage.

Their old logo until the mid 90s or early 2000s had just a regular B.

But the photos of the old Bell signage has a different shaped B from the current one.

officedweller · #**269** Posted **Oct 15, 2019, 8:46 PM**

They do look a bit different.

https://alchetron.com/Bentall-5

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=i...1S8IKeVATxyVm1iTcjC&ust=1571258627936558

mcminsen · #**270** Posted **Nov 14, 2019, 12:30 PM**

Nov.13 '19, my pics

mcminsen · #**271** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 10:18 AM**

Jan.12 '20, my pics

officedweller · #**272** Posted **Jan 27, 2020, 10:07 PM**

Looks to be all gone!

Webcam pic today:

https://app.oxblue.com/open/bk/1090wpenderst

SpongeG · #**273** Posted **Jan 27, 2020, 10:14 PM**

wow. that was faster than I thought.

A little off topic, but that moon pennies coffee across the street has been closed for what seems like a decade, still has all its signage up and sits empty, whats their story? why has noone else moved in?

jollyburger · #**274** Posted **Jan 27, 2020, 10:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

wow. that was faster than I thought.

A little off topic, but that moon pennies coffee across the street has been closed for what seems like a decade, still has all its signage up and sits empty, whats their story? why has noone else moved in?

The rent isn't cheap and there's a lot of construction in the area.

jollyburger · #**275** Posted **Jan 29, 2020, 3:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

wow. that was faster than I thought.

A little off topic, but that moon pennies coffee across the street has been closed for what seems like a decade, still has all its signage up and sits empty, whats their story? why has noone else moved in?

Noticed a blue rezoning sign on it.

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Cavallo Winery has applied to the City of Vancouver for permission to change the use, at the above-noted address, to wine manufacturing, consisting of:

wine manufacturing with an ancillary lounge, tasting room and retail;
approximately 2,376.0 square feet; and
proposed hours of operation: 11 am - 11 pm,
seven (7) days a week.

https://development.vancouver.ca/pc1102wpender/index.htm

mcminsen · #**276** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 9:40 AM**

Feb.16 '20, my pics

mcminsen · #**277** Posted **Mar 10, 2020, 10:44 AM**

March 9 '20, my pics

officedweller · #**278** Posted **Apr 21, 2020, 6:39 PM**

Look what's visible in the excavation pit!
... the roof of the Dunsmuir Tunnel.

https://app.oxblue.com/open/bk/1090wpenderst

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1090wpender/documents/parkingplan.pdf

domusile · #**279** Posted **Apr 21, 2020, 10:37 PM**

What's the tunnel for?

Changing City · #**280** Posted **Apr 21, 2020, 11:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by domusile

What's the tunnel for?

The tunnel was originally cut in 1931, and allowed the trains from Waterfront Station to be moved to the Drake Street railyards to be cleaned, supplied and made ready for the trip back to the east. Before it was built, full scale steam trains could block the Downtown streets they crossed for up to 20 minutes. Eventually CP’s use ceased in 1979.

Part of the tunnel was re-purposed by Skytrain when the Expo Line was constructed. The tunnel wasn't wide enough to have two trains side-by side, which is why the tracks are on top of each other in part of the Downtown route of the Expo Line.