Olympic Village & Southeast False Creek Updates Discussion - Page 167

bc2mb · #**3321** Posted **Dec 17, 2011, 7:21 PM**

so this couple gets a brand new one bedroom condo for 400 bucks a month and they are complaining about a power bill?

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Tenants in subsidized Olympic Village condos fear eviction over unexpected bills

"I was so overwhelmed I started crying," Ritta Mikkonen said of learning they would get a one-bedroom at $400 per month. "I felt like we won the lottery."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/tenants-sub...194856877.html

mrjauk · #**3322** Posted **Dec 17, 2011, 7:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by bc2mb

so this couple gets a brand new one bedroom condo for 400 bucks a month and they are complaining about a power bill?

Did you not read the article? It provides the context necessary to understand the couple's plight. If, after having read the article, you still don't understand the couple's plight, here's some help from Charles Dickens:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849

Jebby · #**3323** Posted **Dec 18, 2011, 12:31 AM**

Nevermimd.

entheosfog · #**3324** Posted **Dec 18, 2011, 8:47 PM**

Drive-by shot:

I probably won't be posting many updates until the new year as I'm headed to Calgary for the holidays after this week

Prometheus · #**3325** Posted **Dec 18, 2011, 9:38 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrjauk

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849

Can't pay your bills, force your neighbours to pay them, result injustice.

Prometheus, The Meaning of Theft, 2011

hollywoodnorth · #**3326** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by bc2mb

so this couple gets a brand new one bedroom condo for 400 bucks a month and they are complaining about a power bill?

what a joke this is turning out to be. hopefully they are out on the streets come June when the bills stop being picked up by the city. these people can go back to the 'burbs where they belong.

SpongeG · #**3327** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 1:01 AM**

i hope some of you never end up on a fixed income

if you read the article they signed the rental agreements and were never told of this payment needed, they already pay BC hydro and this is above and beyond that, it should have been disclosed to them prior to signing

NewfBC · #**3328** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 1:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by bc2mb

so this couple gets a brand new one bedroom condo for 400 bucks a month and they are complaining about a power bill?

I'll pay $800!

Ron.

twoNeurons · #**3329** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by NewfBC

I'll pay $800!

Ron.

Sorry, we're tying it to your Salary. About 80% of your take-home. What's the average household income in Vancouver? 60k or something?

So, after tax, that'll be, what... $3800/month* or something?

*Utilities extra

touraccuracy · #**3330** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 9:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

what a joke this is turning out to be. hopefully they are out on the streets come June when the bills stop being picked up by the city. these people can go back to the 'burbs where they belong.

yes, yes, let's pray for them to become homeless!

wrenegade · #**3331** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 10:50 PM**

Bosa has started pre-marketing for Lido

Images from Vancouver Real Estate Buzz

This went through the city as 1650 Quebec Street

hollywoodnorth · #**3332** Posted **Dec 19, 2011, 11:41 PM**

wow Bosa .... at long last is back in the game on Main and Terminal! great to see!

officedweller · #**3333** Posted **Dec 20, 2011, 12:59 AM**

Thanks for posting.
The block fronting Main St. looks smaller in the promotional renders than the City documents.

wallcenter · #**3334** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 3:38 AM**

Wow the olympic village is going to look amazing once it's all done.. definitely the new hotspot in the city. I bought a place in the Wall Center... can't wait till it's all done (wish we knew when). Love the updates and photos of what's going on!

SFUVancouver · #**3335** Posted **Dec 26, 2011, 11:51 PM**

I am back from Toronto for the holidays and I had a chance on the 23rd to take an hour or so walk through SEFC and take a few pictures. True to form, Vancouver provided an overcast and rainy day, despite the fact the previous two had been beautiful. It was good to be back and see how things had progressed during the fall. Maynards Block is a bit of a disappointment in its flat colouring. Hopefully it will come alive with light and motion once it is occupied. James is looking good. I especially like the townhouses. Wall Centre False Creek and the new Pinnacle Living False Creek project are both progressing nicely but are not far enough along to pass judgment on how they will add to the neighbourhood. Well, here are the photos.

SEFC from the Cambie Street Bridge, looking down 1st Avenue.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Manyards Block from the Olympic Village SkyTrain Station plaza.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

A couple of Maynards Block from Second and Cambie.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Close up of the Cambie Street Bridge-facing lower units of Maynards Block. The recently added extra-wide sidewalk on the east side of Cambie Street from 8th Avenue north will continue down beside Maynards Block and eventually lead all the way to the Seawall. I'm happy to see a distinctly commercial expression for the storefronts that will face onto this widened sidewalk for half of the length of the building.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

A couple shots of the courtyard area and the 1st Avenue building of Maynards Block.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Looking back at Maynards Block from the deck of the Cambie Street Bridge.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

James under construction with and the cranes of the support housing building, Wall Centre False Creek and the new Pinnacle Living False Creek project standing behind.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

James from 1st Avenue.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The rear (south) side of James as seen from 2nd Avenue and Crowe Street.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The laneway elevation of James' interesting townhouses.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The exposed aggregate (pebbled) archways of the entrances to the James townhouses in the podium have been carried around for the entrances of the townhouse in the base of the tower.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The skybridge connecting the townhouse podium to the James tower.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Looking back along James' townhouse podium at the tower.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Wall Centre False Creek is growing and has become difficult to photograph since the last time I was here in mid-August.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The "14 Sites" supportive housing building on 2nd Avenue where the Party Bazaar used to be is at grade.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The Pinnacle Living False Creek project on 2nd Avenue near Wall Centre False Creek is coming along.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

The 1st and Main "14 Sites" supportive housing building is nearly complete and looking good.

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 23rd, 2011.

Locked In · #**3336** Posted **Dec 27, 2011, 1:11 AM**

Thanks for doing the mega-update while you're home, SFU!

ablefire · #**3337** Posted **Dec 27, 2011, 5:59 PM**

SFU: So good to have you back, however briefly.
Thanks for the update!

giallo · #**3338** Posted **Dec 28, 2011, 11:04 AM**

Thanks for the shots, SFU.

I love the shape of Maynard's, but the colour is just....blech! It doesn't match the sleekness of the overall design.

whatnext · #**3339** Posted **Dec 28, 2011, 4:53 PM**

The City opened the public dock at Creekside Community Centre on December 19:
http://www.vancourier.com/travel/Vil...215/story.html

officedweller · #**3340** Posted **Dec 28, 2011, 8:10 PM**

Thanks for the shots!

Never noticed the commercial space at Maynards - that should help draw some people under the bridge.

The aggragate entrances at James look good - altough the quality of the workmanship may be a bit off judging by the pics (the edges and seams look a bit rough)