Postmedia outlet the Vancouver Sun previews material to be shown at tonight’s open house for this planning process.
Date and time
January 25 2017, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location
281 Industrial Ave (Enter off of Southern Street)
More space for more jobs; more homes; more transportation options on a busy 450 acres near downtown Vancouver.
Thanks to Matt Robinson. The Flats, which extends east from Main Street to Clark Drive and south from Prior Street to Great Northern Way, is one of the largest industrial areas remaining in the city. It’s jammed with rail lines, populated by hundreds of businesses, and has some of the most expensive industrial land in the region — second only to that in Mount Pleasant.
The city wants to increase employment floor space in the area to 11 million square feet, from 5.4 million, and pave the way for as many as 22,000 more workers (many of them at the new St. Paul’s hospital and new Emily Carr University campus), according to information boards that staff will take to residents at an open house Wednesday at 231 Industrial Ave.
Barely mentioned in the article is the word housing. Introduction of new housing anywhere in the FC Flats except along Main Street would be a dramatic departure from most heavy and light industrial use districts in cities. I hope they tread very, very lightly and cautiously along this potentially very slippery slope. A slope that can dramatically increase land prices and thereby tend to outbid industrial and transport uses in this area.
No kidding, nobody wants another Jameson House in the flats.
Please don’t build a factory here, because it will ruin the feng shui of my apartment…