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4545 West 10th Avenue - Second Enquiry (Archived Link)One does not have to be an expert at ranking well… pretty much everything, to know that out of all our city’s retail nodes, the West Point Grey Village is suffering the worst. As a UBC alumni myself, I watched that decline everyday for years as store... Continue Reading →
1710 and 1730 East Pender Street (Place of Cedars) (Internet Archive)After missing the Cohen Block’s open house, you can imagine how excited Hannah and I were when a friend of ours told us they knew of another meeting for a proposal in the Grandview Woodlands. Immediately, I looked to see what date we needed to... Continue Reading →
4545 West 10th AvenueTo say I was excited when I saw renowned journalist Frances Bula tweet out a notice about an in-person pre-application meeting in West Point Grey would be an understatement. I was worried this event could be a heated affair in light of the backlash to the Jericho Lands, which includes a GoFundMe... Continue Reading →
1405 East 15th Avenue & 3047 - 3071 Maddams Street At first glance this may seem like a terrible location to add new homes. After all, why would anyone want to live near the Clark-Knight diversion where traffic to the port is forced to bend around a wavey s-curve. It's no wonder that, nearly 50... Continue Reading →
2803 West 41st Ave (Crofton Manor) While fall is generally considered a season of harvest and decline, it seems in Vancouver it's actually brought a time of rebirth. From a long-stalled townhome project in the Cambie Corridor, to a grandfathered building under the old HA-1A guidelines, many areas of our city are springing back to... Continue Reading →
2924 Venables Street - Alice Saunders House Admittedly, Hannah and I were a little torn on whether to write this post. While we enjoy sharing information about upcoming pre-application events, it almost feels unnecessary when the notice is openly available on Twitter. Then again, as we only learned about it when we were sent a... Continue Reading →
4750 Granville Street and 1494 West 32nd Avenue Following city council's recent rejection of 21 rental homes in Shaughnessy, neither Hannah nor I thought we would see any changes here for a long time. After all, the majority indicated they were only paying lip service to the idea of allowing new rental housing in one... Continue Reading →
1425 East 12th Avenue and 1451 East 12th Avenue With the dire shortage of low income senior's housing in Vancouver, this is one project we would expect to receive wide acclaim. After all, despite a recent re-branding, Brightside Community Homes Foundation has been looking after our city's most vulnerable residents for almost 70 years. Admittedly,... Continue Reading →
4683 Arbutus Street (Quilchena Gardens) Admittedly Hannah and I are both looking forward to the annual pause that comes to our city in the month of August. Out of respect to those who are vacationing, looking after children home on Summer Break, or those just wanting to spend a day at the beach, almost no civic... Continue Reading →
357 - 475 West 41st Avenue and 325 - 343 West 41st Avenue The end of July will mark the 10th anniversary of when Vancouver City Council approved the terms of reference for the Cambie Corridor Plan. Unfortunately, by the time the second phase was completed in 2011, it was already woefully outdated, allowing only... Continue Reading →
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