Only destroyed about half, but that's pretty good as far as Canadian city's go, lol. Now that pretty much all the parking lots have been built on new developments are on lots with non-historical one or two story buildings. In the last couple months a church, funeral home and printing shop have been torn down to make way for new residential mid-rises.
Victoria has a historic core that was always dense - and even now the scale is smaller buildings with a smaller footprint which does makes for an interesting jumble of buildings not overly dominated by one style and makes for a great walking experience throughout the downtown core. Just take an overhead look in Google Earth, it's really quite a crazy patchwork.
Anyways, happy that I discovered some drone accounts on Instagram, here's another new one - not a fan of these two 20 storey buildings but they add more residents. The lose rises in front have been purchased by another developer so we'll see what they propose.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVCwkhj5tn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Finally here's a pic I took last year - downtown will continue to densify within it's current core and expand outward - so it could be insanely dense in 10-20 years for a relatively small city (now 400,00 perhaps growing to 550,000 -575,000 in twenty years).
October 10 Victoria BC by
JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr
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