Below is the official statement out from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. It will be interesting to see how the Vision team handles relations with the new premier, considering some of the ties between their two operations. Among the Vision types working on the Clark campaign: – Don Millar of FD Elements, who has also done [...]

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B.C. Lottery Corporation, Paragon Gaming and PavCo are about to come out of the blocks to start fighting back against the opposition to a casino expansion that suddenly blew up in their faces the last two weeks. That’s what I learned when I went over to BCLC’s offices today for an interview with the president [...]

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Just in case you’re in a cave somewhere, Bob Rennie announced at a news conference this morning that 128 of the 230 condos offered for sale in this round at the Olympic village have offers on them. Details here. In offbeat Olympic-village news, the NY Times had the strangest travel piece ever, suggesting that people [...]

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Some buyers sued the village last year to get out of completing their purchases. Now the village’s Salescos — those legal entities created to do the actual legal agreements — are going after those who refused to complete their purchases. The details here.

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Knowledgeable fighters of parking tickets knew that it was relatively easy to game the system in Vancouver to get out of paying a fine. The city’s putting in a new system to change that. Details from Mr. Parking Expert, Vancouver Sun reporter Chad Skelton. A bold — or dastardly — new Vision initiative? No. I [...]

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This is what was handed out at the news conference launching the new sales effort today (with a couple of comparisons with previous sales that I’ve dug out). BRIDGE BUILDING Studio: 349,500 – $354,900

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I called the long-suffering guy in charge of bike lanes, Jerry Dobrovolny, earlier this week to get more information about how the bike-lane statistics are gathered, since there have been allegations by some people (and not just anonymous ones on this blog) that the engineering department is faking data. “We do need to be able [...]

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Sigh. Here we go. City news release on cycling has updates on statistics for Hornby and Dunsmuir bike lanes. Deconstruct away But in an effort to perhaps bring a new stream of ideas into the conversation, how about this? I’d love to hear your ideas for how, if the current lane were going to stay on [...]

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When people like Dan Mangan and Gordon Gibson, Brian Jungen and Alex Tsakumis, and the Lutheran Urban Mission Society are all piling on to oppose casino expansion, there’s rough seas ahead suddenly for this proposal. This news release just out from the Little Train That Could, Vancouver Not Vegas. Vancouver, BC: A groundswell of support from [...]

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Tomorrow is the official announcement but I went down to the sales centre on Sunday, which was hopping. All kinds of people had driven down on a whim to take a look and then parked their cars once they found out they could tour the four presentation suites available. (In contrast to the picture I’m [...]

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