People have been waiting for four months, ever since the Olympic village went into receivership, to see what the strategy was going to be. Rumours of bulk buyers (someone who would take the whole project off the city’s hands at garage-sale prices) abounded. Plus there was a lot of sideline advice about what to do […]

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Rob Macdonald is well-known in the development world (best-known holdings or developments include the St. Regis Hotel at Dunsmuir and Seymour and the Hudson/Shore Club building next door that he announced as his first celebratory project when the NDP were defeated in 2001). But he’s been stepping out into the media world more lately, with […]

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We love the Canada Line, but not because of its stations — concrete boxes that are as utilitarian as you can get (with not enough stair or escalator space already). Not like here.

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Someone has been emailing this doc to bloggers here, there and everywhere. Due to a technical glitch, I can’t put up the PDF I got, but it’s the same thing as here on the Citycaucus blog. This is in response to city manager Penny Ballem’s recent memo, which detailed the rate of staff turnover to show […]

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I feel obliged to note for the record that the blog Civicscene seems to be in a coma. No posts, no tweets since Jan. 6. The blog, written by ommunications guy, sometime Liberal campaign organizer Jonathan Ross, made a few headlines last fall with news reports that he seemed to be getting paid for the […]

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Mayor Dianne Watts has been on a mission to remake Surrey in image and in reality since she was elected in 2005, from burb to big city in all ways. The business mission to India in the latest of a series of public events designed to bolster Surrey as a business centre. But no one […]

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Lots of interesting info from the presentation on housing and homelessness yesterday, currently only in PP form, no report.

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I’ve been getting news releases from some organizations that were just named to the top-employer list, so thought I’d add another twig to the smouldering employee-relations debate here by posting this. Also paid for by your tax dollars on the list: Coast Mountain Bus. You can go to the link here, click on the organization […]

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There’s almost zero chance council won’t endorse staff’s long-awaited report suggesting the Vancouver Art Gallery should get two years to develop a financial plan to build a new facility on the empty block next to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. But the back and forth between VAG board member David Aisenstat, union president Paul Faoro, and […]

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The city and province have spent hundreds of millions to create supportive housing for the chronically homeless. But the homelessness conveyor belt isn’t stopping. So, in spite of a the big push of the past few years, the city is projecting that homeless numbers will dip over the next two years but then start to […]

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