Metro Vancouver's Next City Centre?

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by rpvan

Lonsdale is really just a spillover of Downtown Van.

In the near future, Downtown Van will most likely expand south to Broadway, west to Arbutus, east to Main and north to Lonsdale. We're already seeing the spillover happen on Granville, Cambie and Main south to Broadway. Higher density buildings are quickly moving south.

Won't be long till the area as a whole really starts filling in with high density development.

The problem is that the view cones get pretty restrictive at Broadway, to about 10 stories or less. There's more than enough people around who want to keep the view cones around, so Downtown is basically artificially hemmed in to keep the mountains visible from arbitrary points.

If you're against that, you're a paid shill to the RE lobby, btw./s

Originally Posted by Vin

It would have already if not for Vancouver's various restrictions. Hence the spill jumped, and is still jumping across municipal boundaries into Burbaby, Richmond and Surrey. If the current restrictions are still in place and not revised, the current trend will continue.



What about downtown as a bedroom community (West End, Yaletown, OV, Coal Harbour, Kitsilano, Fairview Slopes, Chinatown, Gastown, etc.) and entertainment/retail/work in other places such as Metrotown, Brentwood, Richmond Centre and Surrey Central?

Uhh, Downtown as a Bedroom community? Have you seen the strata prices?

Plus, AAA office space generally needs a ton of office space close together to be considered 'central'.

[Sheba]

New tech institute for Surrey will take pressure off Vancouver

The B.C. government will spend up to $17 million over five years to help establish a new computer institute on the campus of Simon Fraser University in Surrey.

Premier John Horgan says the province sees Surrey as a second downtown to Vancouver in the Lower Mainland.

The Quantum Algorithms Institute at the university is part of that vision, and something that Horgan says will create jobs locally, raising Surrey’s standard of living.

The province says in a news release that the cost and availability of industrial land are two of the biggest constraints to growth in B.C.’s technology sector.

By developing Surrey as a hub of regional economic growth, Horgan says that will help ease those development pressures.

Horgan says helping Surrey become a so-called innovation hub is intended to complement what is happening in Vancouver, not replace it.

“We have, indeed, an innovation and technology hub developing right here south of the Fraser (River),” he said Wednesday.

A new hub would also take some pressure off the “booming economy” in Vancouver, Horgan added.

“What that means is we can reduce congestion. What that means is investment can look at a place to spread their wings where there is more property, where property values are lower and where they can attract and retain the skilled workers we are going to need for the next decade.”

Bruce Ralston, the minister of jobs, trade and technology, said the institute will train data scientists to help attract companies to Surrey.

“Quantum computer solutions will help develop the innovations of tomorrow in sectors such as transportation and logistics, medical research, advanced design and materials testing,” he said in a news release. “Adoption across these sectors is predicted to surpass $450 billion annually.”