British Columbia

Two decades after the Jawl family bought a 25-acre former sawmill site on Gorge Road, the final project is going up on the Selkirk Waterfront in Victoria.

Reliance holds two key downtown properties on each side of the Johnson Street Bridge, which is being replaced. The Janion is on the north side and the Northern Junk property is on the south.

A land crunch is looming in Metro Vancouver’s industrial market and the potential safety valve may be found in the extensive First Nations reserves, six of which hold twice as many acres as in the remaining industrial land inventory.

Senior citizens who were expected to pack into retirement residences have instead opting to stay home. This has left hundreds of luxury suites in high-end B.C. retirement homes sitting vacant. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

The Jumbo Glacier Resort has been approved as a resort municipality by the provincial government though there is no resort and no residents yet at the controversial East Kootenay site.

Reliance Properties of Vancouver has unveiled an ambitious plan to build “about 500” micro condos in East Vancouver, mostly in the East Village area of East Hastings Street.

A signal for greater stability in the Metro Vancouver market is the vanishing speculators, those fearless flippers who once turned big profits buying and selling homes. Real Estate Weekly and Landcor Data Corp.

Winnipeggers have said their final goodbyes to Canad Inns Stadium. The home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for the last 60 years played host to its final event last month.

After fire levelled the first attempt at constructing a six-storey wood-frame condominium building a year ago, Quattro Development has completed the first such building in the Lower Mainland, called Quattro3.

A six-year hiatus in the re-invention of the Squamish waterfront will soon be over, as Cushman & Wakefield Ltd. began marketing more than 100 acres of former industrial properties for development last month.