Trying to get a struggling real-estate project to start smelling like a rose again is one of the more difficult jobs in marketing. The Olympic village hasn’t suffered from just cost overruns and being built on an incredible timeline and some tussles with the city over design and green stuff. It’s also become everyone’s favourite […]

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This thoughtful column from former city councillor Peter Ladner.

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Quick links to news today. – The lenders for Millennium Development’s Evelyn Drive project have gone to court to start foreclosure proceedings, according to the CBC. A real blow for Millennium, even more than the village receivership in a way. It came the morning after Bob Rennie praised them for all the work they’d done […]

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There was huge anxiety at Vancouver city hall the last two months over whether Housing Minister Rich Coleman would come up with the money to fund the four extra winter shelters that operated last year. In fact, people I talked to sounded sincerely dismayed at what seemed to be an uncompromising message from the province […]

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Vancouver’s plan to put 7,000 people in close proximity to two stadiums, an outdoor civic plaza and (potentially) a casino is unique in North America. Not surprisingly, it’s raising questions about how to deal with some of the inevitable conflicts, noise being one of them. The city, trying to minimize the likelihood of any lawsuits […]

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Kwok Chan’s family contacted me on the weekend, concerned and upset about an accident that took the life of their father last week, four days after he celebrated his 80th birthday. Although they politely hesitated about blaming anyone too quickly, they were distraught that they didn’t know how exactly their father had lost his life […]

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I’m sure no one here will want to miss this.

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Tom Hawthorn, who chronicles the transitions of those who have made B.C. the place it is, has a lovely story here about the life and passions of Chuck Davis. Chuck, one of the handful of people in Vancouver who have fought to tell its historical story in spite of this city’s tendency to amnesia, died […]

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After the news that the Olympic village was put into receivership Wednesday, all of us reporter types went galloping off in all directions to try to figure out more what this means now and in the future. I focused on the possibility of block sales of some condos to investors. CBC focused on the possibility […]

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As requested, the court document about the receivership appointment. RECEIVERSHIP As well, anyone wanting to follow the trail of documents in the receivership process can do so through Ernst & Young’s website here. (Currently all they have up is the same court doc in my link above.)

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