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Artistic rendering of the proposed mixed-use building at 105 Keefer Street, Vancouver. (Merrick Architecture/Beedie)
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Chinatown organizations come forward in support of 105 Keefer proposal

"The fear of displacement and rampant redevelopment has subsided."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 25, 2023
Canada Day 2016 fireworks at Canada Place in Coal Harbour in downtown Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Canada Day fireworks in Vancouver permanently cancelled

One of Vancouver's largest public events will not be returning in 2023 and beyond 🇨🇦

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 24, 2023
Temporarily closed Old Navy store in downtown Vancouver due to the pandemic in April 2020. (Shutterstock)
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Businesses in BC face uncertainty as government-imposed costs balloon: report

"Death by a thousand cuts for businesses."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 24, 2023
Future East Building site (left) and the completed West Building (right) of AbCellera's new Vancouver campus; Construction progress at 110-150 West 4th Avenue as of May 22, 2023. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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BC and federal governments invest $300 million in AbCellera's Vancouver campus

The massive state-of-the-art biotech lab project carries a total cost of $700 million.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 24, 2023
Looking south; Concept for SkyTrain 152 Street Station's second entrance at the northeast corner of the intersection of Fraser Highway and 152 Street, including a pedestrian overpass over 152 Street. (City of Surrey)
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Potential expanded design for future 152 Street Station on Surrey-Langley SkyTrain

A second station entrance with a pedestrian overpass across 152 Street.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 24, 2023
Calgary International Airport (YYC). (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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How Canada's major airports compare for passenger volume recovery

Toronto and Vancouver fell behind Calgary and Montreal ✈️

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 23, 2023
Canada Place Way in downtown Vancouver. (Google Maps)
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Canada Place Way could gain second name of Komagata Maru Place

Another way to honour the discriminatory incident over a century ago.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 23, 2023
Exterior of the Wing Sang Building in Vancouver's Chinatown, the location of the future Chinese Canadian Museum. (Chinese Canadian Museum)
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Over $5 million in federal funding for new Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver's Chinatown

The new museum in Vancouver's Chinatown opens on Canada Day.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 23, 2023
Artistic rendering of 5454 Fraser Street, Vancouver. (Engage Architecture/Ledingham McAllister Communities)
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Six-storey rental and retail building coming to Fraser Street and 38th Avenue corner

Right next to Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 19, 2023
Artistic rendering of 1977 West 41st Avenue and 5688 Maple Street, Vancouver. (Yamamoto Architecture/Sightline Properties)
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New rental housing building to expand Kerrisdale retail district eastward

77 rental homes on top of new retail fronting West 41st Avenue.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 19, 2023
Closed public washroom at sθәqәlxenәm ts'exwts'áxwi7 (Rainbow) Park, as of January 6, 2023. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Public washrooms at new downtown Vancouver park often closed due to vandalism

Building public washrooms is the easy part, but keeping it usable is a different matter 🚽

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 18, 2023
Central Park Place office tower at 4555 Kingsway, Burnaby. (Google Maps)
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TransLink to create new Metrotown office for SkyTrain division

Driven by a big expansion of the division that oversees the SkyTrain network.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 17, 2023
Comparison of the misleading activist-made rendering of the 105 Keefer Street proposal from the western edge of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (left) and the accurate view of the proposed building closer to the development site on the border of the Garden and the Sun Yat-Sen Park (right). (SaveChinatownYVR | Merrick Architecture/Beedie)
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Controversial 105 Keefer building proposal will not "tower" over Chinatown garden

One of these renderings is extremely fake.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 17, 2023
Artistic rendering of the rental tower at 2096 West Broadway and 2560 Arbutus Street next to the future SkyTrain Arbutus Station. (MCMP Architects/TransLink/PCI Developments)
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New renderings of TransLink's proposed 30-storey rental tower at SkyTrain Arbutus Station

It includes a potential second subway entrance into SkyTrain Arbutus Station 🚇

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 17, 2023
Examples of asphalt-covered utility cuts on Water Street in Gastown. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Major effort to finally repair Gastown's cobblestone sidewalks this year

The City of Vancouver is seeking contractors for a sweeping repair project starting in June.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 17, 2023
Orpheum Theatre. (Vancouver Civic Theatres)
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Major renovations eyed for Orpheum Theatre, including synergies with adjacent redevelopment

The City is also exploring synergies with a potential adjacent redevelopment.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 17, 2023
The completed 55One rental tower (left) and the Myriad condo tower (right) in Burquitlam. (Concert Properties)
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31-storey rental tower, including 100 affordable homes, now complete at Burquitlam SkyTrain

It includes 100 affordable rental homes, funded by government.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 17, 2023
Flags of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations permanently raised at Brockton Point in Stanley Park. (Vancouver Park Board)
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Flags of Vancouver's three First Nations now permanently raised at Stanley Park

It's the first time the First Nations' flags have been permanently raised in a park.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • May 16, 2023
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