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Dec. 10, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Q2Q Bridge

New Westminster is proposing a pedestrian and bicycle bridge from Quayside to Queensborough. The open house project boards are HERE…
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Dec. 10, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

A Hi-Tech Hub

Hootsuite owner  Ryan Holmes is partnering 50-50 with Westbank Projects’ Ian Gillespie to propose a hi-tech hub in the Mount Pleasant…
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Dec. 10, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Bike Lanes – What Employees Want

Frances Bula writes in the Globe and Mail about today’s Council discussion on more bike lanes in Vancouver. Staff report: transport.dec.2015…
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Dec. 10, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Images: Seawall Morning

Went out mid-morning on an errand or two.…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Latest Cycling Outrages From Europe

How, I wonder, does this stuff happen without heads exploding all over Europe?  Oh, wait, that’s only a Vancouver thing. Outrage…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

BC's Biggest Industry

It’s housing, says Business In Vancouver (worth more than GDP of resource industries combined). Projected dollar volume of residential resales…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Dep't of "I'll Do It For $4995"

Here’s some coal to stoke the engines of cynicism.  Academic opinion for hire, according to Elizabeth McSheffry in the National…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Airbnb As Rental Agency

How much sharing is going on via Airbnb in Vancouver? And what is the effect on Vancouver rental stock? Shockingly,…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

A Very Vancouver Story

Many thanks to Frances Bula for this item. It’s got a lot of stuff: a treasured local shop under threat, or…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Timber Tower At UBC

Rod Sweet writes in the Global Construction Review to tell us that something unique is under construction at UBC.  It’s…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

New Biz In Old Digs

Mount Pleasant has industrial heritage buildings.  Who knew? Here’s one at 5th and Ontario heading for a rebuild. Thanks to…
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Dec. 09, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Ottawa's Dollars

Vaughn Palmer writes in the Vancouver Sun about the upcoming trip to Ottawa by Provincial Ministers Stone and Fassbender. They’re…
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Dec. 08, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Uber Review

Many thanks to Victor Ngo for sending along his report on Uber, the ride-sourcing service, which he prepared for the…
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Dec. 08, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Architectural Trump-ectomy

Brent Toderian calls for removing the name Trump from a Vancouver building — the Trump International Hotel and Tower. Thanks…

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