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Aug. 15, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Development — the Park At Oakridge

Another in our series of posts on Vancouver’s really big transformation of a 1950’s-vintage, 28-acre car-oriented urban shopping mall into…
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Aug. 14, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver’s New Oakridge — Pedestrian Thoroughfare

Thanks to several commenters on THIS Price Tags post who are concerned about the pedestrian realm planned for Vancouver’s new,…
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Aug. 13, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Development – the Really Big and Spiffy New Oakridge

A bold-looking mixed-use Oakridge Centre is rising in the city, on 28 acres, at the site of a Canada Line…
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Dec. 20, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

How To Finance a Subway [Update]

Translink has sold its Oakridge bus barn for $440 M, which will become a one-time (but welcome) part of the financing…
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Jul. 28, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Changing Arterials of Vancouver

It’s been a decades-old commitment to add density along the major arterials of the city. (Residents of low-density and single-family…

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