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^ That would be a failure for Surrey..."Best place to invest in real estate properties..." HAHA
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Old Posted Mar 24, 2009, 4:38 PM
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It's likely true. Surrey has lower prices, while it has a solid vision, progressive council and excellent transportation connections coming down the pipe.

Investment is all about risk and seeing potential. Markets like Downtown and Burnaby may be great places to live, but investors look for future potential... diamonds in the rough, so to speak.
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thats the exact same thing i've been telling to people i know true surrey may not be much now. but when your investing in something its not about the now its about whats gonna happen down the line
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So i noticed this on the urban village website
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Welcome to a bright new future in BC’s next great metro centre.

Welcome to Urban Village, the new way to live in the new heart of Downtown Surrey. WestStone Properties is building a one billion dollar, nine-acre master-planned community, adjacent to SFU, SkyTrain, the future Surrey City Hall, other civic amenities such as a new library, performing arts centre, new recreation centre and VANOC Games volunteer preparation centre.

That is why Surrey City Centre has been tagged as the number one place to invest in BC by the Real Estate Investment Network and Urban Village is in what is undisputedly the finest location. Early purchasers should see the best return so don’t miss out. Whether you are a student, a parent, a first time buyer or an investor, now is the time to secure your future in Urban Village, “The New Way to Live In The New Heart of Surrey.”
from http://www.urbanvillageliving.com/ur...age/index.html
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today, i went to guilford.












it sucks.

i haven't seen such bad street designs in my entire life.
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what are you talking about by street design?
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the mall or the area?

the mall is very dated and the area is pretty bad - but traffic in surrey is bad - 88th ave was bumper to bumper yesterday for blocks and blocks - just due to volume

they need something done out there
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what are you talking about by street design?
not street design, but more like landscape art, individual streets, trees and stuff, and the overall feel...just doesn't come with an aesthetic look, like the ones in vancouver.
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surrey needs to get a real grid system for the roads
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An artist’s rendering shows what Surrey is projected to look like in 2075.
Photograph by : Bing Thom Architects/For the Now
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wow. I'm not sure if I'll live that long to see that rendering come to fruition. haha..but it's very ambitious. I can see why Surrey has been pegged as the second downtown core for the metro area. Why can't Vancouver have an ambitious vision like that? We need a progressive council too!!
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today, i went to guilford.












it sucks.

i haven't seen such bad street designs in my entire life.

I was there on Saturday...and I really want to see the reno going.
At least they can change the signs...they are ancient!
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I was there on Saturday...and I really want to see the reno going.
At least they can change the signs...they are ancient!
I was there on Thursday and I want them to fix that freakin' parking lot! I can't believe the number of pot holes, pot pits, and pot chasms that are in there!
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I was there on Thursday and I want them to fix that freakin' parking lot! I can't believe the number of pot holes, pot pits, and pot chasms that are in there!
Yes, and it's really hard to get out of that lot because it is always jam packed with cars!! They need to replan that lot.
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Guilford mall reminds me of the Space ship Cygnus from the 1979 movie The Black Hole
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its pretty gross - they need a real food court - it feels like a hallway with tables

hopefully the redo addresses that problem - plus i hate walking through that part you almost have to dodge the tables and its just oddly placed like an afterthought

they should knock down that gross section by sears and redo it as two levels and make it connect with the street to the west
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^ yea, the food court does need some improvements. I wonder what happened to the reno project. All we didn't see any planning booklet expect a few renderings.
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There are a few "things" holding up the redevelopment, wouldn't make sense to proceed without knowing how those "things" turn out. I'm sure Leftcoaster will provide more insight when he's able to.
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There are a few "things" holding up the redevelopment, wouldn't make sense to proceed without knowing how those "things" turn out. I'm sure Leftcoaster will provide more insight when he's able to.
By "things" I'm think skytrain expansion into the area. Am I correct?
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By "things" I'm think skytrain expansion into the area. Am I correct?
Smart! I guess they will have to incorporate that into the plan.
SkyTrain should link directly to the mall..
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I didn't even go inside the mall...it was already "quite impressive" on the outside...nevertheless the whole place was clean.
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