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Old Posted Apr 28, 2013, 6:02 PM
Derek Derek is offline
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Originally Posted by tworivers View Post
Looking at that rendering, wow, it's hard to imagine that there is nearly enough market demand to make such a dense development happen. In Vancouver.

I can see maybe a few 6 story buildings going in, but not anywhere close to anything we are seeing in that rendering.


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Originally Posted by Mr. Walch View Post
In defense of Vancouver it has the best downtown outside of Portland's. Compared to downtown Gresham or Beaverton or Hillsboro it has somewhat of a nacent urban core centered on Estershort Park. There are several new, taller buildings including housing, a hotel conference center, and the new Miller Hull (a well known Seattle Architect) designed library which is quite nice. When the current prep work finishes they will be more connected to the river and have new parks and trails. I still wouldn't trade Portland for it, but I can see it growing into a decent place.


Vancouver's downtown isn't that bad at all! But as tworivers said, where's the demand?
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