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Jun. 20, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Rising Housing Costs, Less Migration in British Columbia

Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock have reported in Business in Vancouver on another startling casualty of rising housing prices. Late last…
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Jan. 23, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Curbing Road Violence-"Business in Vancouver" Weighs In

“For some reason, we’ve come to accept this road violence against pedestrians as part of the wallpaper of urban living…
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Jun. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Million Dollar Real Estate in Blue

  The Vancouver Sun has published Vancouver’s Million Dollar Map .  This series of maps was produced by Acting Director of Simon…
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Jun. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Changing Retailing into "Experiences"

The Economist in their June 18th edition has an article describing the changing face of retailing. Price Tags has been exploring…
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Apr. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Legacy of Expo 86

A good topic to chew on this week, 30 years after opening day.  Business in Vancouver has done a good…
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Jan. 07, 2016 / artitectus

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

  Vancouver is a young city. While this means we don’t have our own Arc de Triomphe (though some seem…
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Jan. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

Defying Conventional Wisdom: Poverty and Gentrification

“Gentrification” is frequently used as a pejorative to oppose new and more costly development in an older neighbourhood attracting more…
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Dec. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

BIV Column: A New Strategy (and Opportunity) for the NPA

My latest Business in Vancouver column: . The NPA has lost the last two civic elections. It’s time for a…
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Dec. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ladner on Uber

Peter Ladner, in Business in Vancouver, looks at the bigger issues related to the rise of Uber: Why Vancouver should…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Two Worlds of Housing in Vancouver

Captured in a single juxtaposition of stories in Business in Vancouver: .…
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Aug. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

TransLink’s Compass Card needs course correction

My Business in Vancouver column: . TransLink’s Compass Card needs course correction before rollout I am a creature of habit.…
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Mar. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

BIV column: Wanted – Referendum champion to put transit funding on right track

From my Business in Vancouver column:  It’s time for Christy Clark to do what former premier Gordon Campbell did when he…
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Oct. 25, 2013 / Gordon Price

A Tale of Two Centres: Transit is the Key

My latest Business in Vancouver column: Building better Metro Vancouver transit is the key to revitalizing the region’s major malls…
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Aug. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Business: Rethink at the Wedgewood

Back in September, 2010, when the Hornby cycletrack debate was just heating up, I posted this: The Wedgewood Hotel (is)…

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