Somehow, I don’t know, it seems like just the right moment for this. First talk is March 7 Poster – Gentrification and the City, Spring 2013

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FYI, the latest Carnegie Centre Action Project report, since it’s unlikely to be published verbatim elsewhere. I am assuming this report only looks at private hotels, not at the hotels that have been acquired by the province in recent years and are now rented at welfare rates. While the city brags about its housing accomplishments, […]

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A change of topic that we all need: story here.

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Chapter 43. BTW, I hear that the park board and associations have selected a mediator and were starting talks yesterday.

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I’m so sorry all. I thought I had posted this weeks ago, but apparently not. This is too good a story to go uncommented. Here’s the story. I can’t do any better than I did here, except to say kudos to whoever raised the question about the glass changing originally on my blog a few […]

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I started out doing a quick, simple story about the trend I’ve noticed locally of smaller hotels being converted to either higher-end rental apartments or social housing. As it turns out, it’s a national trend, according to the CBRE report that was issued while I was in the middle of researching this story. But an […]

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Big cities like Vancouver and Toronto have embarked on their own development projects over the years. But now we’re starting to see places like Surrey and New Westminster put cash on the line to try to make money from the real estate they hold or invest in development to spur more private-sector interest. My story […]

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The Beach + Howe tower, developed by Ian Gillespie and designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, went to urban design panel for a second review earlier this week. Some information in my story here. Couldn’t capture everything that happened at the meeting, though. An interesting point that several panel members made, worth noting: They admired […]

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Any municipal lawyer types want to weigh in on this opinion? I have the utmost respect for Jonathan Baker, whom I have called frequently in my reporting career, but he has quite a Vision hate-on thing going in his Twitter stream and lawyers are known to have different interpretations. So far, one of my background […]

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A lot of stories I’m hearing seem to be misreporting that the board voted to take all the revenue. That is certainly what was originally proposed and it may be the end result of the negotiation, but here is what the board actually voted on. That the Park Board endorse in principle the key elements […]

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