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Comment: Time to rethink the Downtown Eastside plan

Comment: Time to rethink the Downtown Eastside plan

A decade ago the author warned “if approved, these zoning changes would result in the DTES remaining the worst crime-ridden and impoverished ghetto in any Canadian city.”
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More than 100 DTES homeless will move to ‘ultra-trendy’ South Granville

More than 100 DTES homeless will move to ‘ultra-trendy’ South Granville

Residential tower is ‘Just steps from the ultra-trendy South Granville shopping district, with a mix of high end fashion boutiques, home furnishing stores, cafés and restaurants’
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Lethbridge industrial market at ‘inflection point’

Lethbridge industrial market at ‘inflection point’

New space will push lease rates towards $15 per square foot, a fresh benchmark for the market
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Bank of Canada holds steady on key rate

Bank of Canada holds steady on key rate

Central bank was widely expected to maintain pause on overnight rate
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Juggling bricks and mortar as Nordstrom abandons space

Juggling bricks and mortar as Nordstrom abandons space

Retail giant will leave 230,000 square feet and 1,000 employees when it pulls out of downtown Vancouver in June
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Mixed-use menu: housing, work, shops – and social objectives

Mixed-use menu: housing, work, shops – and social objectives

New projects asked to be all things to all people – but there are limits
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Condo buyers boomerang into Vancouver’s downtown

Condo buyers boomerang into Vancouver’s downtown

The sale price per square foot of a downtown condo increased 5 per cent between January and February to $1,141 as core working and living comes slowly back in style
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CAPREIT CEO endorses Eby's $500M rental-buy plan

CAPREIT CEO endorses Eby's $500M rental-buy plan

Canada’s largest landlord offers to sell hundreds of its older “affordable” units to the B.C. government and non-profits
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Major Port Moody residential development underway

Major Port Moody residential development underway

The 2,400-home, $1.1 billion Portwood project by Edgar Development is the first master-planned housing community in the city since 2004
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Battle of Hastings: police, city crews remove homeless camp

Battle of Hastings: police, city crews remove homeless camp

City of Vancouver finally moved to bring the East Hastings encampment to a close "following a steady deterioration in public safety and an increase in fires in the area and the encampment zone”
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