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Old Posted Dec 18, 2013, 7:21 PM
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Apparently construction begins next month for the 24 storey tower.


http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9256621
Surprised we are finding this out from the Vancouver Sun.
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Surprised we are finding this out from the Vancouver Sun.
David Parker got SCOOPED!
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Is this place officially u/c? I thought I saw a pile driver on site yesterday
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Not UC till excavation begins.
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Find it funny that a pile driver and equipment rolled in on Friday out of nowhere. Meanwhile BL's been actively marketing his ground breaking ceremony at 6th and 10th for a year and a half, with no results.
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Is this place officially u/c? I thought I saw a pile driver on site yesterday
Yep, Caisson driller arrived on site on Friday along with a boat load of other equipment.
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Find it funny that a pile driver and equipment rolled in on Friday out of nowhere. Meanwhile BL's been actively marketing his ground breaking ceremony at 6th and 10th for a year and a half, with no results.
The difference between someone who relies on flash vs. substance.
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Find it funny that a pile driver and equipment rolled in on Friday out of nowhere. Meanwhile BL's been actively marketing his ground breaking ceremony at 6th and 10th for a year and a half, with no results.
That is interesting. Brad Lamb reminds me of the Bluths:
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LOL WHUT?! Someone actually used the "Mission Accomplished" banner after all the disaster associated with it? Talk about poor judgment.
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LOL WHUT?! Someone actually used the "Mission Accomplished" banner after all the disaster associated with it? Talk about poor judgment.
You need to go google "Arrested Development TV Series".



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Ah, OK. I thought this was real...
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Looked like they started drilling the caissons, anybody know if they're doing the underground for both towers at once?
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2 drills working away on site now, and they're doing the underground for both towers.
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That is interesting. Brad Lamb reminds me of the Bluths:
Apt comparison. Do you think he rides a Segway around sometimes?
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Drilling finished, excavation starting for both towers.
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Awesomeawesomeawesome! The west end needs these glassy ladies to break up that Stampitecture dumpster fire going on there!
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While showing hints of Stampitecture, I think the West End is its own subclass of terrible. It's this weird morphing of stretched suburban Canadiana mixed with North Korean urbanism (with construction quality to match).

Pointe of View really did a number on this city. The old adage of "better than a parking lot" simply does not apply here. I will gladly take back the parking lot. Discovery Pointe, West Pointe Plaza and Tarjan Pointe (the worst of them all) have simply ruined the views of the area for decades to come. Imagine having a modern art gallery on the site of the Science Centre, and those three uggos being the backdrop to every photo?

Definitely looking forward to Avenue West going up there to block some of the views, but unfortunately it looks like they will be blocking the more decent Bosa towers instead of the fecal matter down the street.
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Find it funny that a pile driver and equipment rolled in on Friday out of nowhere. Meanwhile BL's been actively marketing his ground breaking ceremony at 6th and 10th for a year and a half, with no results.
Grosvenor has been impressive with their Calgary offerings.
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A bit of a road-diet from 5 to 3 lanes on 5th Ave Eastbound on that block would go a long way to make that area nicer. West End suffers not only from bad design (see POV complaints) but from a lack of connection to key areas immediately nearby thanks to the major auto commuter routes of 9th, 6th, 5th, 4th bisecting things North to South along with the CPR railway and the ugliest, poorest quality crossing with an enormous amount of pedestrians.

Instead of being the logical keystone connecting areas like Kensignton, the River Pathway system, Millenium Park and the Beltline, the West End is quartered and divided so that it can't take advantage of its proximity to all these places. It is not the distance, but the time that it takes to get there do to auto-priority and excessive light signal length.

Try walking North from the Co-op to the site of the site of Avenue. You'll spend most of your travel time waiting at 10th Ave, 9th Ave and 6th Ave. God forbid CPR has a train, you're 800m walk might take 20 or 30 minutes.

Kensington is a bit better but still forces unusually long waits on 4th Ave and 10th Street, then the even longer one at Memorial and 10th Street. There are good reasons for all of these (timing required to handle counter-flow lanes etc.) but they actively serve to isolate the West End from areas of interest.

Perhaps if 10th Street forms a retail corridor or if the 8th Street improvements go through or Stephen Ave continues it's march westward with retail and better pedestrian infrastructure then some of these issues will be mitigated. Until then, West End will always be a dead-end for me.

Avenue is a nice building though, perhaps a few hundred more residents will help give the community a voice to stop being rolled over with all of these issues to the benefit of cut-through traffic
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While showing hints of Stampitecture, I think the West End is its own subclass of terrible. It's this weird morphing of stretched suburban Canadiana mixed with North Korean urbanism (with construction quality to match).

Pointe of View really did a number on this city. The old adage of "better than a parking lot" simply does not apply here. I will gladly take back the parking lot. Discovery Pointe, West Pointe Plaza and Tarjan Pointe (the worst of them all) have simply ruined the views of the area for decades to come. Imagine having a modern art gallery on the site of the Science Centre, and those three uggos being the backdrop to every photo?

Definitely looking forward to Avenue West going up there to block some of the views, but unfortunately it looks like they will be blocking the more decent Bosa towers instead of the fecal matter down the street.
You're right! I should have said "Chateaucitecture" or "Lacaillecitecture"


But yeah, the West End is basically the morphine-addicted cousin of Burnaby's Metrotown. :/
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