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Looking toward the Vancouver Eastside and Burnaby from downtown Vancouver. (Wangkun Jia/Shutterstock)
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Over 41,000 homes sold in the Lower Mainland in 2024 amid slump

But there's new momentum for 2025.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 6, 2025
December 2024 construction progress on Bakerview-166th Street Station of Surrey-Langley SkyTrain. (Government of BC)
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It's official: Major construction underway on Surrey-Langley SkyTrain

Construction on the $6 billion project will reach completion in 2029.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 6, 2025
2023 condition of BC Ferries' former Pacificat fast ferries in Egypt. (Ehab El Nemr/Submitted)
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BC Ferries' failed PacifiCat fast ferries could be turned into hospital ships

All three failed fast ferries are mothballing in Egypt.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 4, 2025
Boxing Day 2024 crowds at SkyTrain's Templeton Station. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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SkyTrain ridership jumps fourfold on Boxing Day at McArthurGlen mall

Unlike any other SkyTrain station.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 4, 2025
Stanley Park | Canada Place. (EB Adventure Photography/Shutterstock | Daily Hive)
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19 assessed values of Metro Vancouver landmarks and major properties

The UBC campus is worth $7.6 billion.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 4, 2025
The first Mark V SkyTrain train being tested at Alstom's facility in Kingston, Ontario, August 2023. (TransLink)
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First new generation SkyTrain cars to enter service early 2025

Get ready for that new SkyTrain smell.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 3, 2025
The former Nordstrom building at CF Pacific Centre in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Cadillac Fairview on future of Nordstrom building in downtown Vancouver

The "next phase in CF Pacific Centre's evolution."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 3, 2025
The former Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver tower at CF Pacific Centre. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver tower to be demolished for redevelopment

The 30-storey hotel tower will be demolished instead of renovated.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 3, 2025
Arc'teryx will open a new flagship store at the former Roots flagship space at 1001 Robson Street. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Arc’teryx to replace longtime Roots store at Burrard and Robson corner

After a quarter century, Roots has closed its flagship location.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 2, 2025
Construction cranes for towers in downtown Vancouver. (Eric Buermeyer/Shutterstock)
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Vancouver chief planner on the City's "healthy tension" with developers

"No good outcome has come from acrimony or bureaucratic churn."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 31, 2024
Conceptual artistic rendering of the redevelopment of Columbia Square Plaza at 88 10th Street, New Westminster. (Edgar Development/MCMP Architects)
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8 towers for 7,000 residents approved for New Westminster strip mall site

3,800 new homes next to SkyTrain in downtown New Westminster.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 31, 2024
Livestock Building at Hastings Park. (PNE)
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New centre at Hastings Park to honour Japanese Canadian internment

The $3 million centre will be located in the Livestock Building.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 31, 2024
A wood-frame apartment building under construction. (Imagenet/Shutterstock)
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115 projects with over 11,500 pre-sale homes launched in Lower Mainland in 2024

Much of this was driven by wood-frame construction.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 30, 2024
Hollywood North; filming at the Vancouver Art Gallery. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Hollywood North: BC's struggling film industry gets big boost with new tax incentives

Hollywood North is struggling to remain competitive.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 30, 2024
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BC's new 20% home-flipping tax takes effect January 2025

"One more tool in our toolbox to help people find affordable housing."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2024
Preliminary conceptual artistic rendering of the New Major Vessels. (BC Ferries)
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BC Ferries pondering taking on more debt

It has already made $1.425 billion of bond issues.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2024
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BC Transit express bus from Swartz Bay to University of Victoria reinstated

A quicker and more convenient service from the BC Ferries terminal.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2024
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Many sailings on BC Ferries cancelled due to Christmas Day storm

Most sailings on the major routes have been cancelled.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 25, 2024
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