Truemors
The New York Times on the construction boom in Vancouver ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics, with lots on the new, posh hotels going up in the city.
No mention, though of the city's Downtown Eastside, or Vancouver's homelessness problem.
More than a half-dozen higher-end hotel projects will open in the next few years from Vancouver to the resort town of Whistler, about 80 miles to the north, where the Alpine and Nordic races will be held. Most hope to open before the Olympics.It’s all part of a larger construction boom around British Columbia, although much of the activity is centered on greater Vancouver: between July and September 2007, there were 843 major capital projects planned or under way province-wide, worth a record 135 billion Canadian dollars, about the same in U.S. dollars, according to the province’s Ministry of Economic Development.
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