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A single-family house in Vancouver under construction. (Imagenet/Shutterstock)
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City of Vancouver records downward trend in building permit processing times

This follows ongoing reforms to simplify and streamline processes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 12, 2024
October 2021 rejected concept for the future of False Creek South. (City of Vancouver)
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City of Vancouver restarts False Creek South development planning

A new long-term redevelopment plan.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 12, 2024
Vancouver Olympic Cauldron at Jack Poole Plaza. (CYSUN/Shutterstock)
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Vancouver Olympic Cauldron to be relit for Paris 2024 Games

In keeping with a cherished local tradition.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 12, 2024
Preliminary conceptual artistic rendering of the public realm for SkyTrain Capstan Station. (City of Richmond)
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New public spaces around Capstan Station could include a market zone

Canada Line SkyTrain's new station will open this year.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 12, 2024
VIA Rail. (Shawn.ccf/Shutterstock)
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VIA Rail to order over 300 passenger cars for Canada-wide train replacement

Replacing trains built right after the Second World War.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 12, 2024
A row of Vancouver Special homes in East Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Metro Vancouver housing market is still "treading water"

But home prices will go up by 5.5% year-over-year.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 11, 2024
Before and after; preliminary conceptual artistic rendering of Granville Laneway. (HCMA/Downtown Van)
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New strategy livens up downtown Vancouver laneways by 2028

Major transformations and activations for new pedestrian-oriented spaces.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 11, 2024
Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Corner Brook submarine. (Blake Rodgers/Royal Canadian Navy)
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Canada plans to order up to 12 new arctic-capable submarines

Canada is facing growing threats, especially in the Arctic Ocean.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 11, 2024
Previous five-storey rental housing concept (left) and the 2024 concept of a 20-storey condo and social housing tower (right) at 320 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver. (Human Studio Architecture & Urban Design | Chris Dikeakos Architects)
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Future housing project near Emily Carr SkyTrain quadruples to 20 storeys

Condos and social housing instead of rentals for artists.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 11, 2024
Lime e-scooter share devices. (Joseph Hendrickson/Shutterstock)
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Lime to launch North America's first docked e-scooter share in Vancouver this summer

A unique "Made for Vancouver" system by Lime.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 11, 2024
Mountain view cone informational signage by the City of Vancouver on the False Creek South seawall. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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It's official: Vancouver City Council approves view cone policy relaxations for more housing

Up to 300,000 additional homes, plus ample new job space.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 10, 2024
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BC government confirms $250 million in funding to City of Surrey for police transition

Surrey Police Service will become Surrey's official force in November 2024.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 10, 2024
Artistic rendering of the proposed office building as an expansion of Fairmont Hotel Vancouver at 900 West Georgia Street, Vancouver. (Architects-Alliance/Larco Hospitality)
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Proposal for new office tower addition at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver withdrawn

Could there be a hotel expansion instead?

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 10, 2024
Example of a new Costco Warehouse store; artistic rendering of the future Costco location at Bingham Crossing in Calgary. (Costco)
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New Costco store location with a gas station set for Metro Vancouver

Metro Vancouver's eighth Costco Wholesale location.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 10, 2024
Thornton Tunnel's fake house and the railway tunnel's route. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive | Vancouver Fraser Port Authority)
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All about the 3.2-km-long railway tunnel deep under Burnaby and its fake house

A fake house in the middle of a Burnaby neighbourhood hides so much.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 10, 2024
Artistic rendering of the Holdom Overpass in Burnaby. (Port of Vancouver)
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Construction to begin on $200 million Holdom Avenue road overpass in Burnaby

A new four-lane road overpass above the CN railway.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 9, 2024
SFU Surrey's new Sustainable Energy Engineering building (right) and the Central City campus (left). (SFU)
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$34 million in BC funding for SFU Surrey medical school's temporary space

To start training more doctors sooner than later.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 9, 2024
Existing configuration of Beach Avenue looking east near Park Lane, with the pandemic-time bike lane. (Google Maps)
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Vancouver Park Board rejects City Council's Beach Avenue changes

But the mayor says it'll go ahead after the Park Board is abolished.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jul 9, 2024
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