Southeast False Creek and Olympic Village Real Estate, Events, and more
Hadani Ditmars VANCOUVER — From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2010 4:00PM EDT In a city still basking in the warm glow of worldwide adulation, the Olympic village positively gleams; a conglomerate of condos looking impossibly cool in the noon sun. Amid the maze of buildings seemingly conjured by a genie […]
BY FELICITY STONE Few Canadian homes have names. Official, or government, residences like Rideau Hall in Ottawa, are one exception. Multi-residence buildings are another. Some of their names are straightforward: Water’s Edge, Parkview Towers. Others, not so. On a recent locally produced CBC radio show, a reporter challenged the host to guess which of the […]
Province columnist Ethan Baron Photograph by: File photo, The Province Even on the hottest summer day, most locals would be loath to dip a toe into Vancouver’s False Creek for fear of picking up a dreadful infection. But contrary to widespread public opinion, it’s safe to swim in the inlet, a health official says. […]
Opsal Steel building on East 2nd Avenue in Vancouver is part of a development plan that includes an extra-tall apartment building.
Does a dilapidated warehouse with gaping roofholes really have “heritage” value?
From The Tyee: Vancouver’s Olympic Village draws together more green building innovations than perhaps any other residential development — which is why real estate mogul Bob Rennie is marketing it as the “greenest neighbourhood on the planet.” On a Saturday in May, about 15,000 Vancouverites lined up to tour what is now called “Millennium Water,” […]
Last week the Southeast False Creek Community Centre was renamed the Creekside Community Recreation Centre and it will open in just one week!
11 Olympic Village condo buyers are suing to try and get out of their purchase contracts siting problems with their electric fireplaces, missing washer and dryers and something about a parking lot they didn’t think would be there. See the story below from the CBC: CBC News – British Columbia – 11 Olympic Village condo […]
All buildings in Southeast False Creek are required to be built to minimum LEED Silver standard. They are not all required to get the designation though. The buildings in the Olympic Village – Millennium Water have actually achieved the highest LEED standard, the LEED platinum designation . For more information about LEED in Canada see […]