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Sep. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Image: Pay Parking

Concord Pacific has some new condos on the rise, called One Pacific.  Their web site describes suites ranging in size from…
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Sep. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Anti-transit advertising: Another low blow

An utterly unoriginal ad in 24 Hours (which is targeted to transit riders) for the River District development: . . Note…
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Sep. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Hard to tell parody from reality

Such is the state of real estate nuttiness, and public gullibility (see the petition, below), that these two indistinguishable media…
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Sep. 04, 2015 / Gordon Price

Trumped?

It’s an awfully attractive building, and the last one associated with a name, Arthur Erickson, even more iconic than the…
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Sep. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Summer Quiz 9 – Where is this?

The image: . Where and what is this? . The answer below.  Just click on ‘Read more’.…
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Aug. 31, 2015 / Gordon Price

Gold Rushes and Earthquakes in the West End

For several decades, the West End has remained remarkably stable for the 30,000 mostly lower-middle-income tenants, many who have lived…
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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Damage Being Done: Density in a Post-Referendum Region

  It’s just a matter of time before those fighting the densification of their communities figure something out: When high-density…
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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Summer Quiz 8 – Where is this?

The image: . This one shouldn’t be too hard: Whereabouts? . The answer below.  Just click on ‘Read more’.…
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Aug. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Candidates for Post-Mortems: Controversial projects that actually got built

In the column excerpted below that Michael Geller wrote for The Sun, he suggests there could be “post-mortems on controversial projects that…
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Aug. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

The height of density in the West End – 2

Further to this post on an offering of a site in the West End that could accommodate 24 FSR (floor-space…
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Aug. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

The height of density in the West End

Ray Spaxman received this from a contact: . There is a real estate listing today for 1070 Barclay Street: (The…
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Aug. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

Back to the 80s? – Density, Development and Heritage in Canadian Cities

Apparently Vancouver is not the only city with a controversial proposal (555 West Cordova) to insert an overscaled highrise into…
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Aug. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

Summer Quiz 7 – Where is this?

The image: . The question: Where is this? . The answer below.  Just click on ‘Read more’.…
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Aug. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Dialogue

Tom Durning and Michael Geller have been debating the Kettle highrise proposal (technically a mid-rise) in Grandview.   .  .…

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