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Originally Posted by allan_kuan
The problem that I see with trying to keep industrial zoning in Burnaby and Vancouver is that it hasn't really worked in encouraging the growth of a technology or manufacturing based sector. A lot of those jobs are already heading to China and some to the USA as well... and Vancouver usually gets overlooked at that sort of thing. The areas that this city usually focuses on it seems are:
- Port-related activities, including loading, unloading, repackaging
- tourism (heavily)
- some element of office-related business
- some element of retail
- construction (heavily)
- resources like wood, oil, gas, water (usually applies to outlying and interior areas though)
- filming and animation
- some technology (computers, security cameras, etc)
A lot of industries also seem to like to sit around until enough compensation is paid for a move or something. There seems to be little motivation to move out of current premises unless absolutely necessary.
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Precisely, Allan. That's what I was trying to get at in an old thread I started about diversifying the economy, and keeping innovative industries here. But it really came to very little, if anything. All thinks makes me turn white when I think of how Seattle has diversified and boomed.