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[Scaper]

I saw a news article on CTV tonight regarding B.C. and Alberta sending hundreds of thousands of magazines to the door steps of East Coast homes promoting the west. One job search center was interviewed. This search center in New Foundland only deals with people looking for work in the West. It was stated that thousands of people back east are moving here for work (here, means Alberta and B.C.)

With Victoria sporting the lowest unemployment rate in Canada could growth be spurting growth?

Could this growth we see in Victoria keep going until 2010? or even after the Olympics?

When you look just in Greater Victoria it's shocking how much growth is taking place. Looking beyond all the new retail outlets & malls going up, the new roads and parkways, & the proposed new arenas and stadiums, the residential units going up in the next 20 years is staggering.

Currently Greater Victoria (the CRD) has just over 100,000 homes.

But look at these numbers.....

In the Western Communities, Bear Mountain will add over 5000 units, West Hills will have over 5,000 units, Royal Bay will have over 4,000 units, GoldStream estates will be over 1,100 units. The Lagoon Estates is currently at 660 units and looking to increase. There is over 20 highrises in the works in the Western Communities. As well in Langford and Colwood countless homes and condos are being built on triangle mountain, in Langford City Center and other places. On top of these two municipalities Sooke is adding a couple of thousand new homes in added up new neighborhoods.

In Victoria's downtown we have the following: The Fall's 18 & 13 story condos, The Arai's two 12 story condos, Shutters & Spa, The Wave, The Corazon, The Parkside Victoria, The Crystal Court project, The Hudson (old bay proposal), Wessex's The Well proposal, Bayview's Songhees Hilltop, The Roundhouse proposal, David's chard's michigan St proposal, The View & Vancouver proposal, The Volvo lot proposal, The lot behind the Capitol 6 proposal, and then there is Dockside Green at over 1000 units.

Saanich adds about 1000 units per year, and then there is the other countless municipalities adding their hundreds of housing units per year as well.

This is mind boggling, but maybe this drive out west will keep all this going. Maybe seeing five cranes in operation in Vic West is just the beginning. Heck in Greater Vancouver you can see over 50 cranes in operation any given day. Maybe Victoria's been discovered. Maybe the move out west is on. Maybe all the baby boomers will decided to nest here after all.

All I know is it's amazing, and if this growth continues and increases, the City better get a better plan in action.

[G-Man]

Yeah as if this city will get its act together. Remember that farce of the Regional Growth Strategy? Nothing ion this city will be run cohesively until we get at least some amalgamation.

We could be a region of 500 000 with the city of Victoria with 110 000 and the feds would still look at us as tiny because we only have 110 000.

[Scaper]

^ that's happening quite fast too. It won't belong before we are 400,000 people.

[TheVisionary]

I saw a news article on CTV tonight regarding B.C. and Alberta sending hundreds of thousands of magazines to the door steps of East Coast homes promoting the west. One job search center was interviewed. This search center in New Foundland only deals with people looking for work in the West. It was stated that thousands of people back east are moving here for work (here, means Alberta and B.C.)

With Victoria sporting the lowest unemployment rate in Canada could growth be spurting growth?

Could this growth we see in Victoria keep going until 2010? or even after the Olympics?

When you look just in Greater Victoria it's shocking how much growth is taking place. Looking beyond all the new retail outlets & malls going up, the new roads and parkways, & the proposed new arenas and stadiums, the residential units going up in the next 20 years is staggering.

Currently Greater Victoria (the CRD) has just over 100,000 homes.

But look at these numbers.....

In the Western Communities, Bear Mountain will add over 5000 units, West Hills will have over 5,000 units, Royal Bay will have over 4,000 units, GoldStream estates will be over 1,100 units. The Lagoon Estates is currently at 660 units and looking to increase. There is over 20 highrises in the works in the Western Communities. As well in Langford and Colwood countless homes and condos are being built on triangle mountain, in Langford City Center and other places. On top of these two municipalities Sooke is adding a couple of thousand new homes in added up new neighborhoods.

In Victoria's downtown we have the following: The Fall's 18 & 13 story condos, The Arai's two 12 story condos, Shutters & Spa, The Wave, The Corazon, The Parkside Victoria, The Crystal Court project, The Hudson (old bay proposal), Wessex's The Well proposal, Bayview's Songhees Hilltop, The Roundhouse proposal, David's chard's michigan St proposal, The View & Vancouver proposal, The Volvo lot proposal, The lot behind the Capitol 6 proposal, and then there is Dockside Green at over 1000 units.

Saanich adds about 1000 units per year, and then there is the other countless municipalities adding their hundreds of housing units per year as well.

This is mind boggling, but maybe this drive out west will keep all this going. Maybe seeing five cranes in operation in Vic West is just the beginning. Heck in Greater Vancouver you can see over 50 cranes in operation any given day. Maybe Victoria's been discovered. Maybe the move out west is on. Maybe all the baby boomers will decided to nest here after all.

All I know is it's amazing, and if this growth continues and increases, the City better get a better plan in action.

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Oh yeah. Boom times are a wild roller coaster party of a ride! May they continue as long as there's money and good time to be had! I just keeping seeing dollar signs floating in front of my face if all the other people come here to live. More people means more wants and needs that has to be filled. All of those wants and needs can making you more rich! They will have to show you the money.

[aastra]

Is the population actually growing much at all? I thought it wasn't. Victoria's days of rapid growth are generations behind us.