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[Victoria Watcher]

Why is everybody so surprised?

At a closed door council meeting council chose to sell the site to Telus with a proposal already in front of them.

If they decided now to reject they’d look even more stupid.

[Casual Kev]

I find it absurd it could've plausibly been rejected more so than any other development. Goes to show that for some people the only good project is a dead project. 

Edited by Casual Kev, 16 December 2021 - 06:14 PM.

[Fairbanks]

Isitt is such a KNOB.  Watch the twit decide that he should be Mayor.  Can you imagine?  

Edited by Fairbanks, 17 December 2021 - 09:56 AM.

[Darren14]

I walk past here daily to go to work. 

 

Shortly before xmas Budget quickly removed all there rental cars and this morning they were tearing down the small structure. 

 

On my walk home tonight, it looked like only roof was left. 

 

National car rental was still full of cars until today, where there was about half of them gone.

 

They're moving fast! 

[Nparker]

What's the status of this project?

[Kapten Kapsell]

Site preparation is underway and the lot is fenced off...

[Mike K.]

EllisDon is the GC for this project, in case that hasn’t been mentioned here yet.

[GreenBC]

Traditional land blessing by the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations will occur on Friday, April 29. Construction will begin on Monday, May 2.

[Sparky]

^ Thanks for that information GreenBC, would you happen to know what time that starts?

[GreenBC]

I believe the ceremonies will take place between 8 and 10 am, but assume there will be a public announcement.

[Mike K.]

How did the event go?

[Darren14]

Tree's surrounding the lot have been cut down, and they have started to break up the concrete parking lot as of Thursday/Friday.

 

Curious to see how long it takes to finish 

[aastra]

After looking at the higher-res images available online I'm feeling much better about this one. Still not a fan of the lifeless blankness of the Penwell corner, but they've made a serious effort to incorporate texture and non-uniform details to make the blankness seem less insufferable.

 

Edited by aastra, 13 November 2022 - 12:46 PM.

[Nparker]

I wish a similar effort had gone into the lifeless facades of Hudson Place II.

[GreenBC]

There is an underground concrete structure on the Telus Ocean site (a basement, including what appears to once have been a bicycle shop). They found asbestos so that has to be safely removed before the main excavation can begin.

[Mike K.]

Thanks for the update!

[Victoria Watcher]

Telus Corp. marked the opening of its new ­60-storey Calgary headquarters on Wednesday.

 

The new $400-million skyscraper, Telus Sky, has been in development for nine years and is now the third-tallest building in downtown Calgary. It features 750,000 square feet of office and retail space as well as 326 rental homes.

 

The building’s eye-catching design, by architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Dialog, along with developer partner Westbank and Allied, starts with a rectangular floorplate and then gradually twists as it rises.

 

 

https://www.timescol...calgary-5557184

[Victoria Watcher]

A local historian says time is running out to dig for lost history at a downtown Victoria construction site.

 

Kelly Black, a history professor at Vancouver Island University and executive director of the Point Ellice House museum, said construction of the 10-storey Telus Ocean building is an opportunity to search for treasures linked to the rich but little known history of Kanaka Row, a community of small seaside cabins named for the Hawaiians who first lived there.

 

He said now, while the 28,000-square-foot lot east of the Empress Hotel is exposed in preparation for development, is likely the only time it will be possible to search for items linked to the community of Hawaiian, Indigenous, Chinese and European inhabitants and traders of roughly 170 years ago — before the artifacts are swallowed up by the development.

 

https://www.timescol...an-site-5615656

[Spy Black]

There's always some egghead that want's to spend somebody else's money, and to get their name in the newspaper.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure this little bit of previous construction in the picture was of sufficient size to warrant deep foundations, and there are lots of folks still alive that remember that it had a large basement as well.

In other words, any artifacts were definitely "disturbed" a century ago, and looking for them in 2022 would be a waste of time, a waste of resources, and (most importantly) a complete waste of somebody else's money:

 

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[Victoria Watcher]

Agreed.  What value would there be in digging up the "artifacts"?  It's mostly garbage anyway.