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VANOC branding for the 10-year anniversary festivities of Vancouver 2010. (VANOC / Canadian Olympic Committee)
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Vancouver's 10-year Olympic anniversary festival to be held at Jack Poole Plaza

With Glowing Hearts. 🇨🇦❤️

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 15, 2020
Artistic rendering of 234-278 Leon Avenue and 1620-1630 Water Street in downtown Kelowna. (HDR Architecture)
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3-tower redevelopment up to 435 ft proposed for downtown Kelowna

A "big city" project with 600 homes, 200+ room hotel, retail and restaurants, and video boards.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 15, 2020
Artistic rendering of 1425-1452 East 12th Avenue, Vancouver. (Ryder Architecture / Brightside Community Homes Foundation)
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157 units of social housing proposed for Grandview-Woodland in Vancouver

A net gain of 100 units over the site's existing structures.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 14, 2020
Electric-battery vehicle charging stations. (Shutterstock)
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More electric car charging stations proposed for Vancouver's parks and community centres

Seven additional electric-battery vehicle charging locations.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 14, 2020
Artistic rendering of the PigeonBox smart lockers inside SkyTrain's Stadium-Chinatown Station. (TransLink)
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Smart lockers for online order pick-up coming to SkyTrain stations

PigeonBox is partnering with TransLink for its smart locker service.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 14, 2020
Level 2 - ice rink and Vancouver Canucks space within the civic centre. (James Cheng Architects / Canadian Metropolitan Properties)
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First look at plans for new Canucks practice rink in downtown Vancouver

With nearly 400 seats, plus other dedicated space for the team đź‘€

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 14, 2020
Artistic rendering of the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna by 2040. (UBC)
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UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna to double in size over 20 years

Many more campus buildings and 18,000 students, approaching the size of SFU Burnaby.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 11, 2020
Students walking up Burnaby Mountain on January 10, 2020 to reach the SFU campus, after their buses became stuck on the road. (Daryl Dela Cruz)
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Stuck buses, walking students on snow day renews calls for SFU gondola (PHOTOS)

Many students today had to walk the remaining journey up Burnaby Mountain.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 10, 2020
The downtown skylines of Seattle and Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Seattle built 17,450 rental homes in 1 year, while Vancouver only counted 1,364

Vancouver's rental strategy "doesn’t just defy basic economics; it defies basic common sense."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 10, 2020
Grant McConachie Way near the terminal building of Vancouver International Airport. (Google Maps)
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6-month closure of YVR Airport terminal's lower roadway for construction

Canada's largest geoexchange facility is being built for the terminal building.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 10, 2020
Construction progress on 400 West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver on January 8, 2020. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
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New downtown Vancouver office tower for Apple and Deloitte on the rise (PHOTOS)

The 24-storey tower of stacked cubes is named Deloitte Summit.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 10, 2020
Artistic rendering of a market rental housing tower 1500 Robson Street, Vancouver. (GWL Realty Advisors)
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Over 6,700 rental homes began construction in Metro Vancouver in 2019: CMHC

40% of the starts were located in the city of Vancouver.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 10, 2020
Aerial of Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver saw a record number of housing starts in 2019: CMHC

Here's how each municipality performed.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 9, 2020
Downtown Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Opinion: Vancouver is greener in 2020, but not the greenest city in the world

Not quite "Mission Accomplished."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 9, 2020
Phase 1 of Port Coquitlam Community Centre reaching completion in August 2019. (City of Port Coquitlam)
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Port Coquitlam city council approves property tax hike of only 0.48%

Port Coquitlam will have the lowest municipal taxes in Metro Vancouver.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 9, 2020
V2V Vacations' V2V Empress vessel berthed at the terminal at Vancouver Convention Centre in downtown Vancouver. (V2V Vacations)
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Opinion: Downtown Vancouver to Vancouver Island high-speed ferries can be viable

But V2V Vacations was doomed to fail from the beginning.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 8, 2020
Artistic rendering of 13335 King George Boulevard, Surrey. (Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership Architects)
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Over 1,000 homes proposed near Gateway Station in Surrey (RENDERINGS)

City council is requiring this proposal to "incorporate iconic architecture."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 8, 2020
TransLink's first new double-decker bus. (TransLink)
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More of TransLink's double-decker buses entered service this week

Double-decker buses are now being used on three routes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 7, 2020
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