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[Victoria Watcher]

Security is an issue of course.  But we have 834 Johnson next to 844, and the new Yates/Johnson thingy right beside.  The new building going up on Quadra.  Downtown residents have to put up with issues, but it's hardly just the immediate 900-block that deals with it.  Zombies roam the streets nightly looking to access buildings, cars, parkades.  That's the downtown reality now. Regent Park and Pacific Monarch have been dealing with it for decades, and with the very recent increase in disorder.  But they manage.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 December 2022 - 06:44 AM.

[Mike K.]

We’ll see what happens when the six housing facilities open up on Catherine Street, Albina Street, Prosser Road, Meares Street, upper Yates and Balmoral Road. Those could be far more challenging for their immediate neighbourhoods than this tower would be within its environment for its residents. It’s already well established downtown that those problems are issues. And at some point Townline will start construction on its 16-storey tower east of Our Place. Having more eyes and ears on that block might actually force some meaningful change.

We shall see.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria city council passed a new rapid deployment affordable housing process in April. This is the first development expected to quickly get permits under the process, which was designed to accelerate the construction of new non-market affordable rental and cooperative housing.

Construction is expected to begin in 2024 and be finished in late 2027. Residents could move in as soon as early 2028.

https://www.vicnews....ntown-victoria/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 December 2022 - 01:30 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

For reference, the Empire State Building took 13 months to build.

[Victoria Watcher]

B.C. Housing is hoping for quick approval of the 20-storey affordable housing project, which would include 158 units of affordable rental housing and 47 supportive-housing units

https://www.timescol...-avenue-6228012


Thanks to that quick approval, people can move in in a little over 5 years.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 December 2022 - 06:10 AM.

[aastra]

Welcome to the fast-paced 21st-century world of innovative technology and ideas: but please pay no attention to the snails that are now lapping us.

Methinks the development of unnecessary inefficiencies and backlogs is the only field where any genuine advancements are being made.

[Barrrister]

How long between Pearl Harbor and the defeat of Japan?

[Nparker]

How long between Pearl Harbor and the defeat of Japan?

1365 days

[Victoria Watcher]

This building will take at least 1850 days to complete.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 11 December 2022 - 03:24 AM.

[Barrrister]

Everyone who is struggling to afford a condo is going to be thrilled that their tax money is going to pay for a downtown location for someone else. Watch the costs just totally escalate as this gets built.

[Victoria Watcher]

Those will be some killer views in those $375/mo. penthouse units!

[Mike K.]

I’m sure Bosa would have done anything to have built a highrise in lieu of a six-storey building covering the whole St Andrew’s school property (same density as the BC Housing proposal). Imagine how much more housing would have been built on that land in two or three towers.

Speaking of which, Bosa bought the land in 2011, I believe, and after five years of a tumultuous public planning process, shovels hit the ground in 2017. Residents moved in by mid 2019.

CoV bought their pandora site in 2020, and with the rapid deployment of affordable housing, the tower is planned to open to residents in 2028.

Eight years versus eight years. Maybe, if we’re in a housing crisis, we shouldn’t be building buildings that require four years of construction? It’s a shock, that it will take that long to deliver this project. Is that because the work crews will be unionized with strict limits of who can work when?

[Victoria Watcher]

Does the City get the money back we spent on the site? Or are we gifting it all?

[Mike K.]

The City gets a community centre.

[Nparker]

As a CoV and provincial taxpayer, I am "delighted" to pay twice for the construction of this project, not to mention its ongoing maintenance and management once built. I am sure the various levels of government can spend my money much better than I ever could.

[Nparker]

The City gets a community centre.

In the 900 block of Pandora. 

[Mike K.]

What’s the hold up on the Russell Street shelter redevelopment? That was supposed to have gotten underway in 2021.

[Barrrister]

By community center are we talking about a hangout for druggies?

Edited by Barrrister, 11 December 2022 - 09:29 AM.

[Mike K.]

What’s the hold up on the Russell Street shelter redevelopment? That was supposed to have gotten underway in 2021.

Ah, construction is planned for mid-2023, completion in 2024.

[Mike K.]

In the 900 block of Pandora.

900-block of Mason Street!