Tag: West End

Downtown bus service review proposes route extensions to link West End, Yaletown in next five years

Key downtown bus routes will see route changes and extensions in the next five years to improve service and provide better links between the West End and Yaletown if Translink implements recommendations of the Downtown Bus Service Review…. Read More

Jim Deva commemorative plaza a step closer after West End consultation

A city consultation with West End residents and businesses has found strong support for a commemorative park or plaza to honour Jim Deva, the gay rights advocate and neighbourhood leader whose sudden death last year shocked the city…. Read More

BC Housing’s “transfer of assets” creating wave of concern in non-profit housing sector

BC Housing’s sudden announcement Oct. 3 that it will sell its leased land to non-profit organizations operating housing on its sites is causing a wave of concern in the affordable housing sector, particularly at two Vancouver locations already… Read More

Plan A achieves new low with intensive “greed eviction” campaign against Pendrell tenants

When residents at 1168 Pendrell learned their modest but clean and updated West End apartment building had changed ownership last month, they had no idea what the new landlord had in store. Plan A Real Estate Services Ltd.,… Read More