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[harpoon]

Countdown until someone realizes that "1488" is a Nazi thing.

 

https://www.adl.org/...te-symbols/1488

[VicHockeyFan]

Countdown until someone realizes that "1488" is a Nazi thing.

 

https://www.adl.org/...te-symbols/1488

 

Interesting.  It's always seemed odd to me that folks want to use some random address for their project name.  Ya, it's cool if it's 1000, or 007, but aside from that, what's the deal?

[G-Man]

Sure changes Cook Street.

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[Nparker]

Sure changes Cook Street.

For the better! 

[VicHockeyFan]

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Edited by VicHockeyFan, 15 November 2017 - 12:41 PM.

[aastra]

I'm going to revive this comment that someone made back in July of 2013:

 

 

...external stairways and walkways really rub me the wrong way, especially on such a large building...

 

At night in particular I'm not liking the look of those exposed stairways and the (seemingly always, nowadays) too bright lights which will be on at all hours. It looks motel-ish. Makes me think of an older motel in Las Vegas or Florida or somewhere.

[Rob Randall]

Countdown until someone realizes that "1488" is a Nazi thing.

 

https://www.adl.org/...te-symbols/1488

 

Holy crap

[Mike K.]

I spoke with the developers about this and it’s a pure coincidence. Understandably a Cook Street address is the desired one and the building had the ornamental “V” in its base from the early concept designs. You put the two together and you get what you get.

City Hall’s Pandora Avenue/Centennial Square entrance pavilion, by the way, is 2/3’s up the 600-block. How’s that for a cruel joke? (and on whom?)

[Nparker]

...I'm not liking the look of those exposed stairways...

I've found this element of the design questionable since the project was first revealed. I guess time will tell if it's successful or not.

[Mike K.]

Also, the communal hallways/areas must be lit up as per the building code. We see this at every motel, in the Songhees (where multiple buildings have exterior hallways) and in city parkades.

[aastra]

 

City Hall’s Pandora Avenue/Centennial Square entrance pavilion, by the way, is 2/3’s up the 600-block. How’s that for a cruel joke? (and on whom?)

 

You've certainly opened a box there. But I think we can all agree that Pandora's Avenue is the last place where anyone should expect to find ills and evils.

[cathawk]

I think the outside stairs look really cool! To each his own I guess.

[Mike K.]

December 20th. Project info: https://victoria.cit...als/cox-v-1488/

 

 

 

[Kapten Kapsell]

When is completion anticipated?

[Mike K.]

Folks should be moving in by February, is my understanding.

[Kapten Kapsell]

Folks should be moving in by February, is my understanding.

 

I wonder if this building (and others) are making a dent in the rental vacancy rates in Victoria.  The evidence is not scientific and is largely anecdotal, but I've noticed quite a few vacancy signs whilst driving around close-in neighbourhoods like Fairfield and Fernwood recently...

[G-Man]

Yeah I don't know if it is yet. This will only be the third large one to complete. Perhaps when we see the Yello complete too. Still they are all peanuts compared to the in-migration so I am not sure we are actually getting ahead. 

[Mike K.]

The official vacancy rate also refers only to purpose-built rental inventory. It does not take into effect secondary suites or private dwellings made available as rentals.

So that being said, I suspect we have likely seen the market adjust by providing far more private inventory than we might think. I too have seen more rental vacancies in windows and the like, and in my building not all suites are currently rented. When the building was first occupied in mid-2016 all units had been rented.

I also suspect that high rents pushed a lot of people into ownership who wouldn’t have otherwise been motivated to buy. But if your rent is $1,750 and your mortgage with expenses $1,800, you figure out how to make a purchase.

Now come next year, and provided all things remain equal, we might actually see more pressure on the rental inventory as would-be home purchasers are squeezed by new mortgage regulations that create obstacles to ownership.

[grantpalin]

Countdown until someone realizes that "1488" is a Nazi thing.

 

https://www.adl.org/...te-symbols/1488

Discussion on /r/victoria, started yesterday

Edited by grantpalin, 21 December 2017 - 11:54 PM.

[Bingo]

Open air stairs with no railings, COOL