Tag: Development
Updated on August 3, 2015
The fight to “save” industrial land is really all about jobs, that forgotten priority of “city-building”
Suddenly, after months and years of obsessive coverage of Metro Vancouver’s red-hot housing market, we get two in-depth probes of the region’s dwindling industrial land base, that forgotten step-sister of the affordable housing debate, one with a Vancouver… Read More
Updated on December 18, 2013
Cambie rezonings generating millions for affordable housing, childcare
Just two years ago, then chief city planner Brent Toderian was warning developers to cool the frantic speculation that was driving up land prices along the Cambie Corridor, leading some to worry they would be unable to offer… Read More
Posted on November 5, 2013
City greenlights $20m theatre hub for False Creek in latest investment in arts, cultural space
Today’s unanimous council vote to approve a new $20 million rehearsal and theatre space in Southeast False Creek will add 48,330 square feet to the city’s arts infrastructure, support two key theatre organizations, create a 250-seat theatre and… Read More
