Jump to content

      



























Photo

The Songhees Neighbourhood in Vic West


  • Please log in to reply
95 replies to this topic

#81 Bingo

Bingo
  • Member
  • 16,666 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 03:21 PM

Fond memories of that office with the For Lease sign in the window.   

 

It will if they do not keep up a decent contingency to properly maintain the exteriors.  But that rarely happens.  Multi-family just seems to get uglier as time goes on.

 

For example:

 

ID165352351.jpg

 



#82 Nparker

Nparker
  • Member
  • 40,395 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 03:27 PM

My doctor's office was in the Savoy for years until he retired in late 2015. Now of course it's impossible to find a GP.



#83 Bingo

Bingo
  • Member
  • 16,666 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 03:46 PM

My doctor's office was in the Savoy for years until he retired in late 2015. Now of course it's impossible to find a GP.

 

Not impossible if you are a healthy patient.



#84 Nparker

Nparker
  • Member
  • 40,395 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 04:09 PM

Not impossible if you are a healthy patient.

Healthy patients don't need doctors.



#85 Bingo

Bingo
  • Member
  • 16,666 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 04:11 PM

Healthy patients don't need doctors.

 

But you get on board with a doctor while you are healthy so that the doctor is in place when things turn ugly.



#86 Nparker

Nparker
  • Member
  • 40,395 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 04:17 PM

I'd continue this discussion further, but then I'd have to apply this

 

Attached Images

  • off-topic.jpg


#87 Bingo

Bingo
  • Member
  • 16,666 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 04:35 PM

Okay. Looks like you need a doctor.   :)



#88 Rob Randall

Rob Randall
  • Member
  • 16,310 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 04:51 PM

My doctor's office was in the Savoy for years until he retired in late 2015. Now of course it's impossible to find a GP.

 

Maybe if you had attended the doctors' social networking function last year at the Delta IN THE SONGHEES NEIGHBOURHOOD you could have made your acquaintance with one.

 

Back on track!!!!


  • Nparker likes this

#89 VicHockeyFan

VicHockeyFan
  • Suspended User
  • 52,121 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 06:40 PM

It still has metal stiles on balconies.
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#90 LJ

LJ
  • Member
  • 12,701 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 07:15 PM

SusanJones, on 22 Nov 2016 - 07:44 AM, said:

On the water yet the life sucked out of it.  I wonder how the residents feel? 

Maybe that is how they like it, quiet and peaceful. If it was so terrible there would be hundreds of units for sale - there isn't.

 

Just because some people on the forum don't like it doesn't mean it isn't serving a purpose. For some of those folks living there, a little drive into town to do some shopping is their day's activity.

It could have been much different but it isn't, some people like it that way, and I'm OK with that.


Life's a journey......so roll down the window and enjoy the breeze.

#91 VicHockeyFan

VicHockeyFan
  • Suspended User
  • 52,121 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 07:21 PM

I've lived in Songhees twice.  No complaints.  Really enjoyed it.


<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#92 Nparker

Nparker
  • Member
  • 40,395 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 07:31 PM

If you like living in a cemetery the Songhees is fine I guess, but as vibrant spaces adjacent to a city's downtown core it's a complete disaster. It can, however, serve as an example of how not to design a residential community, so I suppose it has that going for it.


  • Hotel Mike likes this

#93 jonny

jonny
  • Member
  • 9,211 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 07:35 PM

My problem with the Songhees neighbourhood is not that it's residential. Residential is fine. Not every area needs to be downtown. My problem is that most of the buildings are ugly, short, super wide things. The build form just really isn't to my taste at all.

#94 jonny

jonny
  • Member
  • 9,211 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 08:11 PM

I guess I just wish they would have done without the dorky stucco, tacky peaked roofs and massive setbacks everywhere. There are just way too many buildings over there that look like your cookie cutter Best Western or Holiday Inn with a big ol' lawn out in front like they're on the side of some highway on the outskirts of town.  

 

I mean, you pull up to this place and it's like where do I check in for my $89 room, including continental breakfast? I hope there's a decent gas station and a Denny's around. 

 

Untitled.png

 

There are areas of False Creek in Vancouver that are like the area could be more like. Take Marinaside Crescent, for example. Walkups. Variation in height. Smaller roads. That sort of thing. 

 

 



#95 Nparker

Nparker
  • Member
  • 40,395 posts

Posted 22 November 2016 - 08:39 PM

...I mean, you pull up to this place and it's like where do I check in for my $89 room, including continental breakfast? I hope there's a decent gas station and a Denny's around...

Even to be a good suburban hot mess it needs some sort of commercial component.



#96 Victoria Watcher

Victoria Watcher

    Old White Man On A Canadian Island

  • Member
  • 52,302 posts

Posted 07 September 2021 - 04:43 AM

Bob Evans, the dynamic developer behind Songhees and the Victoria International Marina, has died at age 80.

 

Evans worked with the City of Victoria and the province to develop the former industrial site at Songhees, transforming it into a high-end residential enclave with a hotel, waterfront walkway, commercial buildings and a marina. The development brought a new look and new uses to the Vic West side of Victoria Harbour.

 

https://www.timescol...t-80-1.24356096



 



0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users