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Feb. 23, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Planning the New Broadway

Vancouver is getting a major Skytrain extension, a rapid transit line through the second-largest employment corridor in the Province of…
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Feb. 19, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Foreign Property Investment for Visas Displacing Locals in Athens

Imagine you are in a country that is looking to increase investment in a floundering real estate market. Even though…
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Feb. 06, 2019 / Colin Stein

Women in Workplaces: We’re Not There Yet

Carla Guererra, founder and CEO of Purpose Driven Development, Planning and Strategy, and member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI),…
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Feb. 04, 2019 / Colin Stein

BC Place Naming Rights Up for Grabs

Today, Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture Lisa Beare announced an RFP for corporate naming rights for BC Place, the…
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Feb. 01, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Region’s Dirty Laundry Now A Bit Cleaner

Maybe this won’t become a thermal coal port Port Metro Vancouver has cancelled the permit for a project that would…
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Jan. 22, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

The Planetary Health Diet

Among people in Metro Vancouver paying attention to climate change and its mitigation, what we eat is a rising issue.…
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Dec. 24, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Saanich News Paper Carrier Ivan on Santa’s “Nice” List

Placemaking is also about people that interact with place and others in their neighbourhoods. A classic example is the extraordinary…
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Dec. 10, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Party May Be Over for Chinese Investment in American Cities

As reported in the Zero Hedge, the tightening of money in China is impacting North American real estate, with the…
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Dec. 04, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Will Restaurants and Gyms Save Downtown Retail?

While New York City real estate experts have suggested that anywhere between 10 and 20 percent of Manhattan’s retail space…
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Nov. 27, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Dirty Money Fuelling Vancouver’s Real Estate Market?

It’s been obvious that the constant increase in Vancouver real estate pricing did not appear to be a locally driven…
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Nov. 21, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Delta, the Massey Bridge and the Cascade Casino

  South of the Fraser in Delta things are progressing just like you’d expect in a place pretty rooted in…
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Oct. 29, 2018 / Gordon Price

Mayor McCallum’s Langley Express

None of this for Surrey, thank you.   Let’s call Mayor McCallum’s proposal to scrap the LRT L-line for SkyTrain…
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Oct. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: Uber Over All?

Some recent stories about the impact of ride-hailing companies, particularly Uber, and the longer term implications. First, another confirming story…
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Oct. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Losing Retail, One Store at A Time

Peter Ladner called it out on Twitter last week with the tweet posted below. City News has reported on the…

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