Feb 08 2010

Why Does Woodwards Matter?

Published by jnarvey at 8:22 am under Vancouver, Woodwards, downtown eastside, gastown

Long before the redevelopment of the Woodward’s building was completed—to offer a mix of market and social housing reinvigorating Vancouver’s oldest neighborhood—there were skeptics of the plan; not least from the potential buyers:

“I got a call from a guy who was from L.A. and who had expressed interest in buying a unit, and he was in town walking around the [Woodward's] building. While he was there, a woman on the sidewalk dropped her drawers in front of him. So he took a photo of her on his cellphone, sent it to me and asked: ‘Should I be worried?’”

But that was in April of 2006, and the optimists seem to have the upper hand these days.

Read the full article at Granville: Woodward’s Revitalizing Gastown?
Vancouver Woodwards building

[Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] [StumbleUpon]

Related posts:

  1. Gimme Shelter “Homes, not Games” has been a consistent rallying cry of...
  2. Security Cuts Off Olympic Flame From the People Hoping to see the Olympic cauldron up close and take...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

No responses yet

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply