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Vancouver City Hall (Becki Stone/Shutterstock)
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Vancouver City Council to eliminate southward protected view cones of City Hall

This will enable taller transit-oriented development at Broadway-City Hall Station.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 22, 2023
Former site of St. Vincent's Hospital at 749 West 33rd Avenue, Vancouver. (Google Earth)
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240-bed care facility to be built at Vancouver's St. Vincent's Hospital site

The largest development on the site since the major hospital closed 20 years ago.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 22, 2023
Smashed glass bus shelters on the 700 block of Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Over 20 bus shelter glass panels smashed on Granville in downtown Vancouver

A vandalism spree severely damaged bus shelters in the core of downtown.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 21, 2023
The space of the recently shuttered Starbucks Gastown location at the corner of Water and Cambie streets has been leased to a yet-to-be-announced tenant. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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One-in-10 storefronts on Vancouver's high streets are vacant

Some retail districts have vacancies as high as 28%.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 21, 2023
City of Vancouver's Welcome sign at the Adanac Street overpass. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Road linking Vancouver and Burnaby could see measures to reduce traffic

One of the four roads across Highway 1, separating Vancouver's Hastings-Sunrise area from Burnaby.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 21, 2023
Tunnel boring machine Phyllis broke through Mount Pleasant Station on March 18, 2023. (Government of BC)
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Broadway Subway's second tunnel-boring machine reaches Mount Pleasant Station

Another major milestone reached in the SkyTrain extension project šŸš‡

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 20, 2023
UBC SkyTrain extension corridor map. (TransLink)
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Detailed design and planning set to begin for UBC SkyTrain extension

Expect drilling to test soil conditions every 100 metres from Arbutus to UBC šŸš‡

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 20, 2023
Site of 1000 Cypress Street, Vancouver (left), and an artistic rendering of the redevelopment into three single-family houses (right). (Formwerks Architectural)
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Kitsilano rental apartment building to be redeveloped into single-family houses

An unusual downgrade from a multi-family building to single-family houses šŸ”

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 20, 2023
Construction progress on the Broadway Subway, as of March 13, 2023: the Millennium Line at Broadway-City Hall Station (left) and the elevated guideway in the False Creek Flats (right). (Government of BC | Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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New visual progress on Broadway Subway construction (PHOTOS)

This SkyTrain Millennium Line extension project is anything but boring šŸš‡

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 18, 2023
Artistic rendering of the fully-enclosed green recycling and organic waste (GROW) processing facility at 4800 Riverbend Drive, Burnaby. (City of Buranby)
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City of Burnaby to backtrack on new $182 million organic waste facility in a park

In response to major public backlash over the proposed location in a public park.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 18, 2023
Artistic rendering of the future C Concourse Expansion project at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It will reach completion in 2027. (Port of Seattle)
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Opinion: Seattle is now beating Vancouver's long-held tourism infrastructure strengths

Seattle is increasingly one of the greatest threats to Vancouver's tourism industry.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 17, 2023
Planned skyline within the Broadway Plan. Most of the purple shaded areas are where the "Pace of Change" policy would apply. (City of Vancouver)
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Opinion: Broadway Plan's "Pace of Change" policy will be disastrous for renters

You can't make up a more backwards idea to alleviate the rental housing shortage.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 17, 2023
Preliminary artistic rendering of the St. George Rainway. Not the final design. (City of Vancouver)
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$19 million in federal funding for Vancouver's rainwater runoff upgrades

Expanding natural features on streets will help reduce rainwater flooding.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 16, 2023
A screenshot of the digital twin of Vancouver International Airport. (Vancouver Airport Authority/GeoSim Cities)
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Vancouver International Airport to sell its "Digital Twin" platform to other airports

The YVR-made digital platform is now a new revenue opportunity.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 16, 2023
SkyBox Labs office in Metrotown. (SkyBox Labs)
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BC government extends tax credit to support animation and video game sector

"This can mean the difference between landing a major project for BC or seeing it go to another country."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 16, 2023
Single-family houses in Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver residents confident with their real estate investments: survey

Strong proportion of residents think real estate will outperform financial investments.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 16, 2023
Lansdowne Station on SkyTrain Canada Line. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Canada's urban public transit ridership recovers to its highest levels since early 2020

Ridership volumes have recovered to 72% of pre-pandemic levels.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 16, 2023
March 2023 construction progress on the new replacement Pattullo Bridge. (Government of BC)
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New Pattullo Bridge on schedule to open in 2024

The new $1.4-billion, four-lane bridge is on track to open next year.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Mar 16, 2023
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