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Nov. 16, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The "Santana Row" effect coming to your commercial area

There is a new “mall reinvention” in town-and you may  find it on a street near you.As reported in the…
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Oct. 24, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

A Tower by Any Name other than…

BBC News reports on what happens when your brand and your name is Donald Trump. The Vancouver hotel designed by Arthur…
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Oct. 13, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Oakridge Transit Site Going going gone.

Business in Vancouver has published an article about the Really Big Deal-The sale of the Oakridge Transit Centre located on 41st…
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Oct. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quote: What Tsawwassen Mills means

From The Sun:   “What the Tsawwassen First Nation was able to accomplish with the opening of the mall is…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Playing Monopoly in Vancouver

Ian picked this up from Rachael Ashe’s site, Canvas to the Imagination   Last week these small red houses began popping…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Cascadia Tech Hub-The Next Big Thing?

The New York Times suggests that smoother immigration policies and Vancouver’s ambitious technological hopes can spark a “Cascadia Innovation Corridor”, noting that…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The newest Vancouver Suburb an Ocean Away

The new Vancouver suburb as reported by Kerry Gold in the  Globe and Mail last Friday is not in British Columbia,…
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Sep. 30, 2016 / Gordon Price

A solution to overheated housing? In Vancouver?

From The Guardian: Has Vancouver found the solution to a super-heated housing market? There is a city which is suffering…
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Sep. 29, 2016 / Gordon Price

Almost least surprising Vancouver headline ever

Really – “in the world”? Once again, Vancouver is top of the list.  From Business in Vancouver: And yet, we…
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Sep. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall-Last of its Kind?

In a not very surprising article in the Vancouver Sun, Chuck Chiang notes that Industry observers agree: The 1.2-million-sq.-ft. Tsawwassen Mills could…
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Sep. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: London and Gentrification

From The Guardian: The bubble that turned into a tide: how London got hooked on gentrification Earlier this month the…
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Sep. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Is the party over?

From today’s Sun: Figures prepared for Postmedia by Juwai.com, a popular website in China that connects investors with international home sellers…
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Aug. 11, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

McMansions-What they are, how to describe them

This article from McMansionhell outlines those proportions and massings we see on some new large single family housing that somehow doesn’t…
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Jul. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Falling Down in London – 2

From The Guardian: The first real signs of distress in the market for luxury London apartments are starting to emerge,…

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