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Old Posted Mar 9, 2012, 4:43 AM
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the cluster up main street showing loftland and the slopes along with the social housing project nearing completion and the Concord Uptown crane >>


Pinnacle & Wall Center construction madness >>
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Old Posted Mar 9, 2012, 6:27 AM
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Thanks for the updates sacrifice and hollywoodnorth! James probably has the best executed townhome/lowrise base of any tower project in the CoV to date.
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Thanks guys.

That's a huge double storey open space behind the dump truck for WCFC - is that the lobby? (too far to the west to be for the theatre, isn't it?)
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Thanks guys.

That's a huge double storey open space behind the dump truck for WCFC - is that the lobby? (too far to the west to be for the theatre, isn't it?)
Might be a vehicle pass-through of some sort. Playhouse Theatre is immediately East of the two West towers.

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Old Posted Mar 10, 2012, 7:37 PM
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Wonder how things will unfold now that the Playhouse has closed shop.
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Wonder how things will unfold now that the Playhouse has closed shop.
Could you clarify that? Has the Playhouse gone out of business? Or do you mean that the Playhouse has vacated their SEFC offices?
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Old Posted Mar 10, 2012, 10:39 PM
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It looks like the Playhouse is closing up shop completely as of tonight due to it's financial mess (even after the $1M bailout by the COV just last fall). I imagine something will rise up to fill the void but who knows when and what.
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It looks like the Playhouse is closing up shop completely as of tonight due to it's financial mess (even after the $1M bailout by the COV just last fall). I imagine something will rise up to fill the void but who knows when and what.
one can only hope its a LIVE MUSIC space ........ that space could be filled most nights of the week with proper programming .... ie: LIVE MUSIC/BANDS/DJ's, etc
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2012, 12:16 AM
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Thanks for the updates sacrifice and hollywoodnorth! James probably has the best executed townhome/lowrise base of any tower project in the CoV to date.
I really like it as well .... and LUCKY US ... Cressy is doing Meccania in the same area so we will get another beauty to watch rise soon enough!
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one can only hope its a LIVE MUSIC space ........ that space could be filled most nights of the week with proper programming .... ie: LIVE MUSIC/BANDS/DJ's, etc
I was saddened to hear that The Playhouse Theatre is closing for good.
I was also wondering what will be done with this purpose-built space in WCFC, now that Playhouse won't be moving in.
Since it is likely still raw space, it could be finished to suit the needs of another arts tenant.

A friend was saying today that letting The Playhouse Theatre go into bankruptcy may be a necessary step to wipe its accumulated debt. Then a new organization (lets call it "New Playhouse Theatre 2012" ) will pick up the (now debt-free) remains of The Playhouse Theatre and open in the WCFC space next year. She was saying most of their problems were because they didn't control the space they were using (part of the QE Theatre centre), so they couldn't adjust their schedule to extend hit shows.
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She was saying most of their problems were because they didn't control the space they were using (part of the QE Theatre centre), so they couldn't adjust their schedule to extend hit shows.
That's part of it. An even bigger piece is that whenever the City booked an event in the Playhouse during the day or on the day of the week when the Playhouse was dark it would be up to the Playhouse to 'strike' the set and remove everything from the stage in order to allow the booked event to come in. All of that labour, all of the storage costs, and all of the vastly increased cost of set development (since everything would have to be able to be broken down and moved instead of staying in place for the run of a show) came out of the Playhouse Theatre Company's pocket. That's an absolutely huge financial burden when you consider unionized technical workers cost $25-$50 an hour and require a minimum 4-hour call. If the set were struck after a night's show in order to be ready for the following day's daytime rental then the crews would likely go into OT. If the set needed to be struck after a two-show day like a Saturday then the crews could well go into double-OT by the time everything was struck at the end of the night. The structural deficit the Playhouse has endured for decades is because this asinine process of having to strike the set for each and every rental performance has been in effect for decades.

Not only will the direct impact of lost salaries be experienced, but the tens of thousands of theatre-goers who went downtown and ate at restaurants, drank at bars, paid for parking, etc., will be lost, too. If the Arts Club's Granville Island Stage were to close, for example, at least half the restaurants on the Island would go likely go under within a year; that or significantly curtail their hours. The arts may seem to be an extravagance but its essentially a loss leader to help other businesses succeed and bring options for entertainment diversity into our lives.

I sincerely hope that the Playhouse can be saved. I think that the company's finances would have immensely improved once it moved out of its expensive rented office and shop space and into its new home in the WCFC development. It's a real shame that project was on hold for so long. A couple of years' delay meant that the Playhouse's rental space had to be renewed on a short-term lease and I heard the owners of the building really put the screws to them and they had to burn through their bail-out money at a terrifying rate. I'm not a huge fan of taxpayer bailouts but the Playhouse, along with the Arts Club, are the two lynch pins of the Vancouver theatre community. Losing one will do immense damage to the arts sector and it has a knock on effect on the smaller, growing arts companies that act as incubators for talent and ideas.
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a nice series showing the cranes looming over the OV (pics by me)



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Maynards: removed the cunstruction crane from the main tower about a week ago, and is slowly filling in the curtain wall?:

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WCFC: glazing continuing. I'll try to get a pic of the South facade... some more colour-blocking taking shape:

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They aren't going to keep those H-frame east-side-alley style lines, are they?
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Weren't they labeled as some sort of special heritage/style designation so that they would stay/be rebuilt the same?
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They aren't going to keep those H-frame east-side-alley style lines, are they?
BCHydro has said they will be replacing the "H"-frames with underground ducts when blocks get redeveloped. They are also planning on replacing the "H"-frames completely by the end of the decade.
- except for small areas downtown that are used for filming in 'gritty downtown alleys'. I suspect those "H"-frames and wires &tc. will be left for the gritty atmosphere, but the wires won't be live; the power for the nearby buildings will still be fed from the new underground ducts.

BC Hydro to take down banged-up H-frames:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...8-2045d725d3f4
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These condos cost how much?!?

From Cole1965 at flickr.

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