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Samsung R&D Vancouver office at a South Flatz office building at 565 Great Northern Way. (Google Maps)
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Vancouver City Council to create policies that encourage new tech hub spaces

Mayor Ken Sim wants to develop land use strategies that grow the tech industry.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 26, 2023
Skookum Music Festival was held in 2018 at Brockton Oval in Stanley Park, backdropped by the downtown Vancouver skyline. (Brand Live)
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Mayor Ken Sim aiming to restore civic pride, fun and events in Vancouver

Vancouver is "open for business again."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 24, 2023
Map showing all of Vancouver's view cone height restrictions. (City of Vancouver)
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Vancouver City Council to review the impact of view cones on new housing

Vancouver has a housing crisis, not a view cone or shadowing crisis.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 24, 2023
The new UBC student residence at 5955 Student Union Boulevard, named The Houses of the Ones Belonging to the Saltwater, as of August 14, 2021. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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UBC student housing rents set to increase by up to 8%

Expect "higher level than usual" increases for the next 3 years.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 24, 2023
Lime e-scooters in Valencia, Spain. (Shutterstock)
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Coquitlam aiming to launch its own e-scooter share service this summer

Personal e-scooters can already be used in Coquitlam šŸ›“

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 21, 2023
January 2023 design of the development permit application for the London Drugs redevelopment at 2585 Hastings Street, Vancouver. (Rositch Hemphill Architects/JTA Development Consultants/Hastings Sunrise Development)
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New London Drugs building with rental housing on Hastings Street moves forward

Vancouver's Hastings-Sunrise area will finally get its new London Drugs, plus 157 rental homes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 21, 2023
Artistic rendering of General Fusion's test plant at the Culham Campus of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). (General Fusion)
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Vancouver's General Fusion hits milestone in plan for major UK test plant

Construction on the $400 million proof-of-concept test plant begins this year āš”ļø

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 20, 2023
The Peak building completed at 3737 Rupert Street, Vancouver. (Success Realty & Insurance)
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Over 500 applications to live at new Vancouver rental building with 52 suites

The provincial government provided the project with $22 million in construction financing.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 20, 2023
Vancouver Centre II office tower from the Granville Entertainment District. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Granville Street should be Vancouver's version of NYC's Times Square: City staff

There's a lot of work to do šŸ’”

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 20, 2023
Exterior of Vancouver Centre II office tower with the 29th floor skyline rooftop outdoor deck shown (left), and the "Spawn" salmon sculpture by Douglas Coupland in the lobby atrium (right). (GWL Realty Advisors)
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New Vancouver Centre II office tower complete with Douglas Coupland salmon sculpture (PHOTOS)

The new 34-storey office tower next to Telus Garden is now finally complete.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 20, 2023
Interior of the VPD building at 3585 Graveley Street (left) and the exterior of the VPD headquarters at 2120 Cambie Street (right). (MCW Group/Amir Ali/Daily Hive)
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Vancouver Police Department looking to build new headquarters building

This will be a purpose-built "post-disaster" police headquarters facility.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 20, 2023
Artistic rendering of 5562-5688 Manson Street, Vancouver. (DA Architects & Planners/Mirage Management)
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Two 18-storey rental towers in Oakridge approved by Vancouver City Council

Nearly 400 rental homes will be built north of Oakridge mall.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 19, 2023
Artistic rendering of 1065 Pacific Street, Vancouver. (Wall Financial Corporation)
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32-storey rental housing tower proposed for Pacific Street in the West End

180 rental homes near the corner of Pacific Street and Thurlow Street.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 19, 2023
Proposed changes for allowing multiplexes on all RS-zoned lots across Vancouver, with standard lots (yellow) and large lots (turquoise) shown. (City of Vancouver)
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Vancouver proposes allowing multiplexes for all single-family zoning

Increased density would be allowed on all single-family lots in all neighbourhoods šŸ 

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 19, 2023
Artistic rendering of 1063-1075 Barclay Street, Vancouver. (ACDF Architecture/IBI Group)
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New Vancouver City Council approves its first building: a 47-storey residential tower

372 units of condos and social housing in downtown Vancouver.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 19, 2023
Artistic rendering of the first phase of the new community and recreation hub of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. (Acton Ostry Architects)
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New Vancouver Jewish Community Centre project sees $36 million donation

Vancouver's Oakridge area is set to gain a major new community centre.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 18, 2023
BC Transit bus on the Sea to Sky Highway near Whistler Village. (Trevor Bodnar/Resort Municipality of Whistler)
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New calls for real public transit linking Vancouver, Squamish, and Whistler

There's growing demand for alternatives to driving on the Sea to Sky Highway.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 18, 2023
Reconstruction of a segment of the Stanley Park seawall. (Vancouver Park Board)
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Estimated $300 million cost to rebuild the entire Stanley Park seawall

And a year later after the storm, the Jericho Pier is still a closed wreck.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 18, 2023
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