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[amor de cosmos]

a-channel story:
http://www.atv.ca/vi...news_71183.aspx

...including this youtube clip:
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[amor de cosmos]

money-maker or not, i can't imagine that cadillac-fairview is happy with almost the whole side of the 4th floor being vacant. it just looks bad (& babu was from pakistan, not iran)

[tarainbc]

The 4th floor isn't vacant anymore....the side opposite the Passport Office has been leased out to Good Life Gyms which will open this summer.

[Mike K.]

Thanks for the update!

Finally after so many years the fourth floor corridors will have some life. As for the sudden increase in fourth floor tenants, I suppose the rates offered were low in order to fill up the space in preparation for the sale. The sale also explains the sudden fourth floor exterior work (facing north up Broad Street) that was completed last summer.

[VicHockeyFan]

Faux recycling?

[G-Man]

Weird. I just listened to a story on CBC yesterday about how our recycling is now being put into ships and sent to china made into products and shipped back. It's real recycling but man is that messed up. Sorry off topic.

[VicHockeyFan]

Weird. I just listened to a story on CBC yesterday about how our recycling is now being put into ships and sent to china made into products and shipped back. It's real recycling but man is that messed up. Sorry off topic.

We should just take an area, say, 'round about Hazelton, and trade it with a piece of China. They could have their workers work there in factories in second-world conditions, but with the bonus of good supply chains. We'd get a little piece of China for I don't know what.

[Bingo]

Weird. I just listened to a story on CBC yesterday about how our recycling is now being put into ships and sent to china made into products and shipped back. It's real recycling but man is that messed up. Sorry off topic.

This is nothing new. After World War II and the Korean War we towed most of the Canadian Navy ships to Japan and we bought them back as Datsuns that rusted out in a couple of years. But the Japanese never looked back, as they were the same as what China is today.

[G-Man]

^ Yeah but there is a huge difference between towing a big ship and putting waste paper in a container for shipping.

[amor de cosmos]

I bet I know who bought it... the Ontario teachers! ...wait that wouldn't make sense....

Victoria, B.C. - The Bay Centre has been sold.

Cadillac Fairview, owners of the downtown shopping mall, have completed a deal to sell the four-story, 90-store complex anchored by the Bay.

Cadillac Fairview, however, did not identify the buyer nor the selling price, citing confidentiality agreements with the new owners.

However, Bay Centre Manager Darlene Holstein confirmed this afternoon that the sale is official.

“I’m working for a new company,” said Hollstein, but added she did not have the authority to identify the firm.

Sources say it is a Toronto-based pension fund investor.

http://www.timescolo...4191/story.html

[VicHockeyFan]

LaSalle Investments of Chicago.

[sebberry]

Anyone know when the fountain was removed from the ground floor of the Bay Center?

[Mike K.]

The "Times" facade facing onto Broad Street along Fort Street is under scaffolding and someone wearing what looked like a hazmat suit was removing samples of material from one of the walls. What's happening here?

[lanforod]

Sounds like asbestos?

[Mike K.]

Could be right? That would probably be why this individual was all suited up like that.

[Holden West]

Asbestos was phased out by the 80s; is it more likely protection from mold?

[concorde]

probably silica

[LJ]

Does that include the bars VicDuck?

I can assure you that it doesn't.