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Originally Posted by Klazu
I never understand why they build these temporary sales centres just to be bulldozed few months later and them having to build another one elsewhere. Seems such a waste. I understand that they will have to clear the site, but why not build a sales centre in a place where it can stay.
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Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. The two most impressive (read: expensive) show suites I've ever seen are the one at Main/Broadway (looks like a permanent, multi-floor, half-block construction which has actually improved that dead junction) and the one going in at Oak/16th in the old Blockbusters. These things look like they must cost the same as an actual condo (in terms of the time and materials and trades they hire to make them, and for the MONTHS they take to construct). There goes a massive chunk of profit...
But, the reasoning behind building and knocking-down has to be proximity. If I'm looking at buying in a specific region downtown, I'm less likely to walk/bus/drive to a faraway region to check out a sales centre because it may have a different feel to where I'm thinking of buying. And if I'm just walk-by traffic and I stumble upon a sales centre but it's miles from the actual construction location, I'm unlikely to walk out of the sales centre and go straight to the site to check it out.
Then again, Concord Pacific seems to make this anti-logic work fine for themselves, with their sales centre down by False Creek Northeast...
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