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[Victoria Watcher]

mike geric construction has written a letter opposed.

 

 

he's of course building tresah on the same street:

 

http://tresah.ca/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 May 2020 - 06:23 PM.

[Kapten Kapsell]

The four storey parkade 'vehicle storage' proposal for Summit avenue is going to CotW on Thursday May 21; staff recommend that this be forwarded to a public hearing.  This image is from updated plans submitted to the city last month:

 

[RFS]

Hey you can see the homeless shelter in the background

[Nparker]

...staff recommend that this be forwarded to a public hearing...

This goes to a public hearing, but numerous hotels can be turned into homeless shelters overnight and the public gets no say.  There's something seriously rotten in the state of Denmark. 

[IPH]

This goes to a public hearing, but numerous hotels can be turned into homeless shelters overnight and the public gets no say.  There's something seriously rotten in the state of Denmark. 

The Province just bought the Comfort Inn on Blanshard across from Topaz Park to use as a homeless shelter.  its reportedly going to be operated by the Our Place Society. 

 

http://www.msn.com/e...cid=LENOVODHP15

[tiger11]

Very likely there are more to come in the area shortly...

 

 

The Province just bought the Comfort Inn on Blanshard across from Topaz Park to use as a homeless shelter.  its reportedly going to be operated by the Our Place Society. 

 

http://www.msn.com/e...cid=LENOVODHP15

[spanky123]

^ Hey if the Province is willing to pay 2X market value then why wouldn't anyone sell right now?

[Sparky]

^ BC Assessment valued it between $14-15M so the selling price was about right if you add in the pillows and wine glasses.

[Rob Randall]

Nikki Babie inherited the hotel from her late father Cornell a couple years back. She has her own fashion business and the hotel business is not looking good right now so I can't really blame her for unloading it. 

[Nparker]

But the poverty industry is thriving.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nikki Babie inherited the hotel from her late father Cornell a couple years back. She has her own fashion business and the hotel business is not looking good right now so I can't really blame her for unloading it. 

 

 

He was also an astute businessman. He bought a vacant lot on Blanshard Street at Finlayson where he stored his inventory before building a Holiday Inn that opened in 1987 on the property, now a Comfort Inn.

 

Away from the dealership showroom, Babie was a family man married for 55 years to wife Yvonne. He was predeceased by a son, Todd, who passed away in 2013, and survived by his daughter Nikki, who remembers her father as a “down-to-earth type of person” who enjoyed spending weekends with the family.

 

“I can still remember dad renting a motorhome and the whole family spending a month on the road,” said Nikki, adding her father was also a fitness enthusiast who earned a black belt in karate and later operated a karate school.

 

In his younger years, he would be seen frequently jogging along the trail around Cedar Hill Golf Course.

 

 

https://www.timescol...ship-1.23474064

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 May 2020 - 07:15 PM.

[Rob Randall]

He actually built it as a Ramada. Holiday Inn came later. That's why the bar is still called Redd's. It's an illiteration.

[LJ]

He actually built it as a Ramada. Holiday Inn came later. That's why the bar is still called Redd's. It's an illiteration.

alliteration?

[Rob Randall]

Duh, sorry yes. Alliteration. I am alliterate.

[Jackerbie]

Rezoning and development permit applications have been filed for 1628 Edgeware Road (near Hillside Mall) to facilitate the development of a 'rooming house'; could this be the first new SRO built in the city in decades ...?

 

We just like to experiment, its a modern take on a dutch colonial 

 

Aryze is at Advisory Design Panel today for this proposal. Staff report and up-to-date drawings are online: https://www.victoria...Attachments.pdf

 

[Nparker]

I like it, but I bet some of the neighbours won't.

[aastra]

Fewer and smaller street-facing windows on a 21st-century development than on most of the post-1950 houses on the same street? If a time traveler from 1895 were to show up today methinks he'd assume the vampire population had grown tremendously in the intervening decades.

 

Normally we justify tiny windows with the privacy excuse. But on this street facing the rear of the mall there's privacy like crazy already. Few people walk down that street, even fewer people drive along it.

[jasmineshinga]

I expect it's the performance requirements of the Step Code which have resulted in such a reduced level of glazing. It's cheaper to install smaller windows than to add insulation.

[PPPdev]

ADP approved the design

[Rob Randall]

Stupid Step Code. Like it's Winnipeg in wintertime or something.

 

Anyways, what's ADP like now? Usually it's 30 people crammed in a tiny conference room.