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Jan. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Real Estate Development Challenge – Day 3

Yesterday’s question: Emphyteutic is a real estate term used in Quebec. True.  It is a form of lease under the…
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Jan. 29, 2013 / Gordon Price

Real Estate Development Challenge – Day 2

Yesterday’s question: Real Estate Developers like to use OPM.  OPM means Operating Program Manual. True or False ? False.  OPM means “Other…
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Jan. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Real Estate Development Challenge – Day 1

This week’s theme: Real Estate Development.   Pretend you’re a developer (or maybe you are).  There will be a true-or-false question…
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Jan. 15, 2013 / Gordon Price

Blog Post of the Day: Transit as an economic force

Andrew Jones picked up on an important report in his blog: The Fall 2012 Crane Survey, published by Deloitte, is…
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Jan. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

Mixed Salad: Thoughts on the Waldorf

Several requests have come in to address the controversy surrounding the Waldorf Hotel. [As you might have noticed, Price Tags tends…
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Jan. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

A Starter House with a Difference

Michael Kluckner has been observing an interesting change in his east-side neighbourhood: It is the conversion/modernization of one of the…
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Jan. 03, 2013 / Gordon Price

Light Rail City – 2: More cherry-picked images

Several commentators on the Light Rail City post felt I had selected the images I showed of views from Phoenix’s…
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Dec. 14, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Development in Western Canada – Board of Trade Panel

 From the Vancouver Board of Trade: Real Estate Panel 2013: Western Canadian Urban Development Tuesday, January  22, 2013  07:15 – 10:00…
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Dec. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

Whistler in Guatemala: Cayalá

It doesn’t look quite real: . It’s Cayalá, featured in Better! Cities & Towns: I have to assure readers that…
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Dec. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

Wading into the North Shore’s development controversies

As the proposed (and now-withdrawn) Onni development at 13th and Lonsdale, or the Grosvenor proposal for Ambleside, reveal, the North Shore…
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Dec. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Bad thoughts on a blustery day

Ken Orhn writes: Occasionally, I wonder about the joys and frustrations of the professional lives led by others.  But I…
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Nov. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

New image, new entrance: How Hudson’s Bay sees itself and its customers

It’s not “The Bay” anymore; it’s now “Hudson’s Bay”- a part of the re-positioning of the oldest commercial corporation in…
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Nov. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

Change of Views

How the familiar if undistinguished views of the cityscape change incrementally. Like the view up Kingsway from Victoria that used…
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Sep. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Costs of Deferring Transit

Paul Pinsker, now retired from the Engineering Department at Vancouver City Hall (his special focus was on parking standards), sent…

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