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Aerial view of Concord Community Park at Northeast False Creek. (Concord Pacific)
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Three new Metro Vancouver facilities win International Olympic Committee design awards

A new park, community centre, and aquatic centre are winners of the global design awards.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 12, 2021
Potential concept for the new outdoor pool at Mount Pleasant Park. (Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects/Vancouver Park Board)
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Two new public outdoor swimming pools considered for Vancouver

The Park Board is exploring additional outdoor pools for Mount Pleasant Park and Hillcrest Centre.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 11, 2021
$26 million cancer prevention and support centre opens near VGH (PHOTOS)
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$26 million cancer prevention and support centre opens near VGH (PHOTOS)

64 beds for out-of-town patients and their caregivers, plus support spaces and services.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 10, 2021
The former Army & Navy store at 502 Columbia Street, New Westminster. (Google Maps)
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Homeless shelter planned for closed Army & Navy store in New Westminster

It would be operated by a non-profit society that already uses part of the space for a special high school.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 10, 2021
Concrete barriers for the bike lane on Stanley Park Drive, Summer 2021. (Vancouver Park Board)
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Park Board to consider extending duration of Stanley Park's temporary bike lane

The Park Board is expected to approve retaining the bike lane through 2022.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 10, 2021
Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel at the US transborder terminal of Vancouver International Airport. (Booking.com)
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Rapid COVID-19 testing service for travellers available at Fairmont Vancouver Airport

Travellers can conveniently get tested at the hotel attached to the YVR terminal.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 10, 2021
Pier D international terminal building expansion of Vancouver International Airport. (Vancouver Airport Authority)
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Vancouver International Airport begins using new terminal building expansion

Rising demand has prompted YVR to use the $300-million expansion, completed in early 2021.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 10, 2021
Uber, Lyft, and Vancouver Taxi. (Daily Hive/Shutterstock)
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Uber and Lyft trips in Metro Vancouver now outnumber taxis 2-1

Ridehailing trips now dominate taxis by a wide margin in the Lower Mainland.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 10, 2021
Dialectica office (Dialectica)
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European research firm Dialectica to open Vancouver office, create 100 jobs

Vancouver's booming tech industry attracted the company.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Artistic rendering of the SFU Burnaby Mountain gondola terminal station. (SFU)
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SFU community makes gondola pitch to Burnaby City Council

"These are issues that we can't continue to look over anymore."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Possible redevelopment potential for 1065 Pacific Street, Vancouver. (Goodman Commercial)
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West End site on Pacific Street listed for 300 ft tall tower redevelopment potential

$19 million for a 13,000 sq ft lot with an existing three-storey apartment building.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Artistic rendering of the Douglas College Coquitlam campus envelope renovation. (Douglas College)
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$22 million upgrade to make Douglas College campus buildings more green

An energy use reduction equal to 30 average households annually.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
No. 66 Fraser Valley Express. (BC Transit)
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Fraser Valley Express bus to SkyTrain Lougheed Station to launch in March 2022

BC Transit delayed the route's launch due to a lack of bus drivers.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Downtown Vancouver perspective looking east towards suburban communities. (Shutterstock)
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Lower Mainland's far-flung suburbs no longer a source for more affordable homes

The home price "canyon" gap between Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley is now a "creek."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Fallen tree on University Boulevard falling the storm on November 6, 2021. (TransLink)
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University Boulevard access for UBC campus still closed from storm damage

Downed trees and trolley poles and wires necessitate TransLink bus detours.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 8, 2021
Vancouver Chinatown Storytelling Centre (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Vancouver Chinatown Storytelling Centre shines light on Chinese Canadian legacies (PHOTOS)

A new cultural centre in Chinatown that showcases Chinese-Canadian heritage.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 7, 2021
Artistic rendering of the temporary modular supportive housing building at 2520-2640 Smith Street, Richmond. (BC Housing)
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Construction to begin on homeless modular housing near Bridgeport Station in Richmond

The $8.6-million structure with 40 beds will reach completion in Spring 2022.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
Retrofit progress in October 2019 of the first Harbour Air ePlane. (Harbour Air)
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Harbour Air receives $1.6 million from BC government to advance battery planes

Harbour Air is aiming to fully convert its entire fleet to electric-battery planes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
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