Downtown Vancouver Updates

[hollywoodnorth]

maybe the assisted living facility is a childcare facility with assisted care also.....I only read the sign quick and then walked the length of the lot to see if they could fit 2 buildings of the size proposed in that lot.......me and the dog will be back in that area tomorrow

[subdude]

Originally Posted by leftside

So what if those units are existing SRO's? The only way to improve the area is to reduce the amount of social housing in the area and encourage market housing, which in turn will encourage businesses to the area.

Big business down there in the "poverty industry"... An interesting read (if a little slanderous at times) is the "DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE ENQUIRER". S/He calls the people opposed to change in the area povertarians (people who earn a living in the lucrative poverty industry). See http://downtowneastsideenquirer.blogspot.com/

[mr.x]

Poverty is a lifestyle? o_O

These people are freaks. I thought this statement was mind boggling: "They make you pay for a spot to live on the planet you were born onto!!"

[Yume-sama]

Originally Posted by mr.x2

Poverty is a lifestyle? o_O

These people are freaks. I thought this statement was mind boggling: "They make you pay for a spot to live on the planet you were born onto!!"

That's hilarious. A perfect example of why Marijuana is still illegal.

Or at least I hope the person behind that statement was on some sort of drug...

[deasine]

Originally Posted by Yume-sama

That's hilarious. A perfect example of why Marijuana is still illegal.

Or at least I hope the person behind that statement was on some sort of drug...

LOL I hope so too. But some are just mentally-ill and need attention.

[SpongeG]

for some people it is

I have heard of woman who would rather pump out kids and collect government money than get a job

they get welfare, subsidized housing, grocery money, child bonus, gst rebates, daycare, handouts and such

at christmas they can get groups to donate presents and dinners etc.

they say they are better off living that way than getting a job cause they lose the cheap housing, grocery money etc. so its in their favour to remain unemployed with kids and they get to be stay at home moms

so one could argue they are choosing a "poverty" lifestyle

[mr.x]

^ i have a friend who knows someone that has been living off welfare and social housing for the past 25 years...has kids, both he and his wife are perfect capable of working (mentally and physically), but they choose not to.

It disgusts me when so many who actually need this help aren't getting it because they choose to be asswipes. We need to ship these folks off to Sudan.

[Jacques]

So they just finished paving the entire back side to make it a parking lot, and now they are going to add on the site a school and an assisted care housing,
would love to see the plans on this one, are they encroaching into the park?

can wait to see this one

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Jacques

So they just finished paving the entire back side to make it a parking lot, and now they are going to add on the site a school and an assisted care housing,
would love to see the plans on this one, are they encroaching into the park?

No they wouldn't encroach on the park - at least the school has always been in the offiial community plan for the site.

As for ripping up the asphalt - maybe at the event rates they charge GM Place visitors, they can make it up pretty quickly!

[Jacques]

thank for the information, I reside in Gastown, when summer days come I like to go an sit there and read a book under my favourite kind of tree " the weeping willow "
cheer

[204]

Originally Posted by leftside

I can't wait to see the cartoons in the British press.

Don't hold your breath. Canada is not really on the radar of the British, I doubt they'd be much interested in this.

[LukeMasonTRGRealty]

I went to the chinese new years parade last week, and spent some time walking around the area. It is really changing, and fast! I particularly liked the area up the street on pender, where they are completing EAST, but the little hub outside of Tinseltown, shown in this photo, is turning out great!

Two thumbs up to the revitalization of the downtown eastside and chinatown areas!

[officedweller]

There's a sign on the 175 Robson site that says "Hilton coming soon" or something like that. There's a rendering on the sign too.

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L'Hermitage is setting up a big display centre on the ground floor to sell the remaining units in the building - LOUD red wrap on the windows - at first I thought they were the permanent colour for the spandrels - luckily not.

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A new awning is being installed above the door to the Westin Grand on the Robson frontage.

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Got a mailout for a City open house regarding the triangular Cambie Bridgehead site but I misplaced it. May have been this week. I think the height of the taller of two towers was in the 300ft range.

[Yume-sama]

Yes, 17 units remaining at L'Hermitage, their current sales center (688 Richards) is closed, new one opens up February 23rd in the building itself. Residents are to begin moving in very soon.

I haven't seen a rendering of the Hilton... any way anybody can get a photo of it? Any website or marketing team associated with it yet?

[Delirium]

picked up a copy of westcoast homes and took a picture of "the beasley"

i hate it. too many things going on here. the original version was much better.

[Jacques]

take away the podium and it looks like a copycat of the L'Hermitage?

[Delirium]

yeah your right!

[djh]

Larry Beasley is probably highly embarrassed his name is going to be on this ugly thing..."aah great, that's my legacy"

[osirisboy]

the base is kinda weird looking but i like how theyre redoing that office building. also i spoke with one of the sales people and they informed me that excavation will start in april.

[Yume-sama]

Well... you can't say it doesn't fit the area. Seems they aren't allowed to think outside the box down there...