From Vancouver’s Seaside Greenway, near Granville Island. The starchitect twisty building that just won’t stop growing.
Plus a look at one of Vancouver’s unique marine environments. Plus a great big bridge that never quite became the freeway it was built to be.
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I like Vancouver House—and the more attractive the buildings along False Creek, the more hideous the Granville Bridge becomes. Overbuilt on day one, and about as pedestrian-hostile an environment as we have in this town. Every time I have to walk over it, I debate walking an extra couple of kilometres just to avoid the dangerous pedestrian crossings. The day the viaducts come down is the day I start lobbying to do the same at the south end of Granville Bridge.
Gotta love Westbank.
“Vancouver is becoming a safe deposit for the global rich!”
Those are the words[1] used to promote Vancouver real estate in China by luxury real estate developer Westbank, whose owner Ian Gillespie is under fire for asking the federal government for billions in tax dollars to build 50,000 affordable housing units in Vancouver and Toronto[2].
“In recent years, the boom in Vancouver’s properties has attracted the global rich,” the post on Westbank’s China site goes on to say. “It took only two years for Vancouver’s housing prices to double.”…
…Vancouverites continued to react with anger and disbelief to the news that Ian Gillespie, who has been dubbed the “architect of the housing crisis”, is seeking taxpayer money to build affordable housing.
“Westbank is a major contributor to housing affordability issue,” housing advocate Raza Mirza with Housing Action for Local Taxpayers (HALT) said. “They have perpetrated the crisis by selling new supply, which would have gone to locals, to non-residents in sale galas outside of Canada.”..
https://thinkpol.ca/2018/05/24/vancouvers-becoming-safety-deposit-box-global-rich-developer-seeking-billions-tax-dollars-affordable-housing-pitches-citys-hot-real-es/