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[Coreyburger]

I'll make my usual point re: modern urban-format car dealerships tend to be attractive storefronts. The typically have large windows (that are NOT covered over, can you believe it?), illumination, and generally offer a lot to look at. I have no problem with the dealerships themselves. It's the unnecessary setbacks of the dealership buildings and the unnecessarily prominent lots that make them miserable.

 

The Volvo dealership is good as far as I'm concerned. If the exact same building were a restaurant or some such thing we'd probably think it was great. And the Toyota and Land Rover buildings themselves are also good, but they're just too far from the sidewalk. Toyota is crazy far from the sidewalk.

 

Indeed, Volvo dealership has better street-front presence than the retail building next door to it. Had forgotten about it, so I guess there has been at least one good building built in the last few decades.

[Kapten Kapsell]

Perhaps the new Mayfair Mall addition will have a nice street-facing presence once complete.

[VicHockeyFan]

The tax office on Vancouver is getting a new coat of paint. And taxpayers are being very generous.

No less that 4 big man lifts onsite to do the job. 4!

It’ll be sort of grey.

[Rob Randall]

^Builders' Beige.

This trend of street level government offices with no public assess is a plague on Downtown. If it's off limits put it up on the fifth floor or something.

[Mike K.]

^Builders' Beige.

This trend of street level government offices with no public assess is a plague on Downtown. If it's off limits put it up on the fifth floor or something.

 

Under the Harper regime that sort of stuff was cut back, for sure.

[Nparker]

The tax office on Vancouver is getting a new coat of paint...It’ll be sort of grey.

 

^Builders' Beige.

If only it were Builders' Beige. It looks more to me like "Putty Puke", and it's just dreadful. White might have been bland, but at least it looked clean. I blame sdwright.vic for not intervening. 

[sdwright.vic]

The tax office on Vancouver is getting a new coat of paint. And taxpayers are being very generous.

No less that 4 big man lifts onsite to do the job. 4!

It’ll be sort of grey.

I believe I broke this news a month ago. Along with new landscaping coming in January.

[sdwright.vic]

We call it Auditor beige at the office.

[sdwright.vic]

If only it were Builders' Beige. It looks more to me like "Putty Puke", and it's just dreadful. White might have been bland, but at least it looked clean. I blame sdwright.vic for not intervening.

They told at the OHS meeting it was to be two tones of grey.

Hard to intervene when you supposedly don't really work there. 🤔

Edited by sdwright.vic, 22 October 2017 - 02:03 PM.

[Nparker]

We call it Auditor beige at the office.

Inspired by the envelopes in which tax notices are sent?

[Nparker]

They told at the OHS meeting it was to be two tones of grey....

Even if one could call this colour grey (and that's a big IF), where is the second tone? It sure looks monochromatic to my eyes.

[sdwright.vic]

You are correct. It is only one colour.

[jonny]

So this building is going to be the same colour as Sutton West, which is being painted for some bizarre reason?

*I say bizarre because the Sutton buildings are clad in tinted concrete, which is an architectural detail itself.

[Nparker]

So this building is going to be the same colour as Sutton West, which is being painted for some bizarre reason?...

Assuming the painting at Sutton West is ever finished - what a haphazard job that seems to be. If that ever happens, the CRA building will look more like Sutton East and Sutton West will be more of the colour of the CRA before it was painted. Sort of a chromatic shell game along this block. 

[Nparker]

Bingo, on 22 Oct 2017 - 9:57 PM, said:

Boy it sure looks dated...too much green space...needs a couple more stories and a rooftop garden.

Then I suggest you get a GoFundMe page started. Based on our remediation costs from 2004-05, I'd think $8-10 million aught to suffice for the changes you want to see.

Edited by Nparker, 22 October 2017 - 09:02 PM.

[Bingo]

It's tooo late I am already supporting a new bridge and sewage treatment.

[Kapten Kapsell]

 

Cool Aid has officially applied for a rezoning with the City of Victoria for 210 Gorge East (formerly the site of the Cedar Grove Motel).  The proposal is for 50 affordable rental apartments and 32 supportive rental apartments.  The rendering above is from the submission on the city's Development Tracker.

[tjv]

^%$#$%$#  How many of these buildings are we going to build!  If they know that buildings are being built they will just keep coming and coming from all across the country. 

 

How about we just give them an island somewhere off the coast with no ferry service

[Mike K.]

Thread for 210 Gorge Road East: https://vibrantvicto...ntals-proposed/

[Nparker]

...Cool Aid has officially applied for a rezoning with the City of Victoria for 210 Gorge East (formerly the site of the Cedar Grove Motel).  The proposal is for 50 affordable rental apartments and 32 supportive rental apartments...

Too tall! It will dwarf the trees and nearby power lines.