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Originally Posted by misher
I know the Broadway hotel had a public feedback session so I assume this one would too even if the city said it was ok and changed the rules for them.
I note that Onni a "local" company has a google review of 1.7, Westbank has 3.7, ASPAC a "foreign" company has 3.0, Coromandel 5.0, etc.
Being foreign doesn't make you a slimeball. Being a slimeball makes you a slimeball. I do think that foreign developers that come here and play on their "good" reputations back home are probably going to be above average. In the end if you've built 100+ buildings well you'll probably build a good one here too. Plus they can usually fund themselves which means their margins can be a bit tighter than most local developers.
Its always the small developers that can declare bankruptcy and disappear you got to be scared of.
In the end the most reliable car is a Toyota and that's a Japanese car built here. If we're ok driving a foreign designed car built here, why not a foreign designed building built here? Though of course you should seek to support Canadian companies all things being equal.
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If it's a small developer it's almost certain it will be Canadian-designed (and built as well).
As in designed by a Canadian (and likely Vancouver) architecture firm.
Unless you meant "foreign-built" which is even less likely given labour laws and local unions and whatnot.
More likely the more appropriate expression is "foreign-developed" (as in, the developers being foreigners rather than local Canadians or Canadian-born).
Either way for actually building it or designing it, they're almost certainly using Canadian labour/expertise on some level if not in whole.
Foreign-designed buildings (typically of the Starchitect level of the kind of guys like BIG, Kengo Kuma, Ole Schereen etc) are usually out of the price range of those kinds of small developers in terms of the rates that those kinds of architects would charge, especially for what would probably be a signature building (the Vancouver House's, and the likes) and as such you're most likely only going to get those being developed by the bigger and more established developers who are almost more invariably Canadian, if not local.
And of course you do have "big" foreign (meaning, American) developers who will use American architects or international architects as well - and usually in conjunction with a local architect as the architect of record.
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