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[Brantastic]

Facing Government Street:

[MarkoJ]

May 19th, 2020

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[Nparker]

Has Customs House nearly reached its full height?

[2F2R]

... also not considered a major project !!!

[Kungsberg]

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[Jackerbie]

Has Customs House nearly reached its full height?

 

Based on the photos it looks like one more storey to go

[Mike K.]

What a fantastic project.

 

Thanks for the update.

[Hotel Mike]

Just imagine what that $10 million penthouse will look like. The quintessential Victoria view and location.

[Mike K.]

$10.8M!

[Casual Kev]

$10.8M penthouse that's a short walk from, and directly overlooking, the provincial Parliament... I wonder who bought it. 

Edited by Casual Kev, 24 May 2020 - 12:52 PM.

[Promontory Kingpin]

$10.8M penthouse that's a short walk from, and directly overlooking, the provincial Parliament... I wonder who bought it.

Peter Gustavson - (according to the developer)

https://www.encorefx...eter-gustavson/

Edited by Promontory Kingpin, 24 May 2020 - 01:07 PM.

[Mike K.]

Are we sure?

“What I can say is the purchaser and his wife have a long-standing affinity for Vancouver Island’s natural surrounds and particularly Victoria with its arts scene, its culinary experiences and its proximity to major centres like Seattle and Vancouver. Those aspects played a key role in the client’s decision to invest in the Customs House project and choose to make Victoria his home.”

- https://victoria.cit...ghts/?term=10.8

It doesn’t sound from that quote that Victoria is his existing home, but maybe that’s a bit of a ruse.

[Promontory Kingpin]

It’s definitely him - give your contact at Cielo a call if you’re interested in hearing it directly from the source

[Mike K.]

I just heard directly from the developer, and it’s not him.

But the developer would be happy with the opportunity to present the project’s available residences to Mr. Gustavson, should he be interested.

[Biro]

Some interesting geometries above L6. Does anyone know what type of surface restoration techniques they will be using?

Captured June 12th 12:00.

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[Mike K.]

Once this is all said and done I just don’t think Victorians will know what hit ‘em. The world's visitors will be photographing thing building as an example of old+new merging so well together.

[Nparker]

....The world's visitors will be photographing thing building as an example of old+new merging so well together.

Who? 

[Glen]

Those visitors will be a few years away!  A mutated form of COVID could become what we know already as a common cold...... which has no cure.  We already know what COVID can do.  There maybe no quick magic bullet.

 

So with all that has happened with COVID,  is it time to rethink the speculation tax and in particular ownership by Canadians from other provinces? Victoria's tax base is going to be hit hard with the possibility of no cruise ships, international tourists and fewer Canadians willing to travel and that will translate into even more business failures.  Sure property values may and will drop, but what will replace all the lost revenue to the cities tax base????

Things can only get worse if long term planning isn't discussed and changes made.  Homelessness is becoming even worse, I know many people that travel to Victoria and the first thing they notice is that the city has a BIG problem.  They won't be coming back.

Time to fix the problem before the Garden city looses everything.........

[laconic]

The crane is being dismantled today.

 

 

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[aastra]

Pic by some maniac on Flickr who calls himself JohnnyJayEh.