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New accessible pedestrian signal push buttons in Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
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Blind and deaf-friendly crosswalk push buttons increasingly installed in Vancouver

This could become the new citywide standard for all signal-controlled crosswalks.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 5, 2019
A Car2Go vehicle parked in curb side street parking in Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Vancouver considering allowing car share vehicles to park in metered spaces

This will improve the convenience and usability of car share.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 5, 2019
Crab Park in downtown Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Port of Vancouver to invest in improvements for Crab Park

This follows calls from the park board and city council for the port to improve the park.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 5, 2019
New digital advertising screen sign in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
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New digital screen advertising signs coming to Vancouver streets

The latest fixtures coming to the city's streetscape.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 5, 2019
Fraser Street parking lots in the South Hill area of Vancouver. (Google Maps)
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260 free parking spots in Fraser Street retail area could turn into paid metered

Local businesses are currently paying over $300,000 annually to support free customer parking.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 5, 2019
Intersection of Robson Street and Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
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'All Walk' pedestrian crossing being tested at busy intersection of Robson and Hornby

Pedestrians can now cross all crosswalks at the same time.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 5, 2019
The exterior of Trump Tower Vancouver. (Trump Vancouver)
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Rumours swell over a rebrand of Trump Tower Vancouver hotel

The Four Seasons Vancouver is in need of a new home by early 2020.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
BC earthquake epicentre on July 3, 2019. (USGS)
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes off coast of Vancouver Island

The powerful tremor occurred late this evening.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
The new London Drugs store at Dunbar Terrace, located at 4588 Dunbar Street, Vancouver. (Dunbar Terrace)
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New London Drugs store opens on Vancouver's Westside this week

Dunbar Village is getting a big new boost.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
Futrhaus at 1152 East 13th Avenue, Vancouver. (Lee + Pete Vancouver Real Estate Group)
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A look inside: New super-green Passive House townhomes in Vancouver (PHOTOS)

One of Vancouver's first single-home to multi-unit housing conversions with Passive House technology.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
Inside Metro Vancouver's first MUJI store at Metropolis at Metrotown shopping centre. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
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MUJI's largest store in Metro Vancouver to open in Surrey

Even larger than the Robson Street flagship.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
Highly conceptual artistic rendering of the subway station entrance at the parking lot on the southeast corner of the intersection of Main Street and East Broadway. (City of Vancouver)
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These are the proposed station names for SkyTrain's Broadway Extension

"The next station is Mount Pleasant."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
Calgary's suburban sprawl. (Shutterstock)
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Calgary's housing market now seeing the 'light at the end of the tunnel': report

A strengthening economy is expected to boost homebuyer demand for the remainder of 2019.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
Condo towers in downtown Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver's benchmark home price drops below $1 million: report

This is the first time it has dropped below $1M in two years.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
Large trees on 12th Avenue between Kingsway and Prince Albert Street. (Google Maps)
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East 12th Avenue arterial route in Vancouver shut down until September

The city says it needs to make an emergency replacement of a 100+ year-old water main.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 4, 2019
C-Shore pavilion at UBC. (Joseph Dahmen)
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Showcase wood pavilion built at UBC's Martha Piper Plaza Fountain (PHOTOS)

A new place for students to relax and hang out.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 3, 2019
Vancouver aerial. (Shutterstock)
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Most Vancouver residents open to densifying single-family neighbourhoods: survey

Most residents want to allow growth and allow more people to afford and live in all parts of the city.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 3, 2019
Row of townhomes in Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver's housing market has reached the 'cyclical bottom': report

82% of household income goes towards home ownership.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 3, 2019
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