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May. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: The Liberation of Hayes Valley

When you think of freeway removal, San Francisco’s Embarcadero Freeway along the city’s waterfront immediately comes to mind.  Structurally unfit…
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May. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

A wave of change in Seattle

A Seattle friend reports: “This year is the start of an unprecedented wave of change in our neighborhoods.” . .  …
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

The disturbing loss of lower-income rental stock in Burnaby

This is astonishing, and not in a good way: . . From Business in Vancouver: A wave of land speculators…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

How Seattle beats Vancouver

 From KIRO TV: New apartments could offer transit passes instead of parking . In a presentation to the city council…
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Apr. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

This is Justice

Janis Magnuson links to this delicious piece in the Daily Mail. . . .…
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Apr. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Jericho Update

Ken Ohrn attended the community meeting on April 29th, hosted by the West Point Grey Residents Association, with respect to…
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Apr. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

Tripling Tweets: What three items about real estate might really mean for Vancouver

Everyone talks about it – except our leaders.  There has been little sustained comment or debate by elected officials, local…
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Apr. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Mutual support for the Missing Middle?

Two items thast came in that same time, both dealing with the dominant planning and social issue of our city:…
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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ray Spaxman: How high could we go?

Ray Spaxman:  . Last week, when I was travelling back from a meeting at UBC, I drove back along Spanish…
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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

A Dilemma for Our Times: The Brenhill/Jubilee House Rezoning

From Frank Ducote: “This letter to Council may be of interest to Price Tags’ readers.” . April 13, 2015 To: …
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

Simple Math: Elizabeth Murphy Responds

Elizabeth Murphy, quoted in a Daily Durning post on population growth in Metro, responded in the comments to the post.…
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Apr. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Contradictory Growth

Tom Durning sends around a housing update each week. Here’s an excerpt from this week: . Interesting take on the…
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Mar. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Development: Arts Space and Poor Doors

Ian Robertson draws attention to this proposal at 2nd and Main: . . Interesting that there is some non-market artist…
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Mar. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Transit and Development – The Implications

Scot links to this ‘advertorial’ from Colliers: an interview with Andrew Grant, President of the PCI Group, the developer of…

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