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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Burnco, Eagle West and the others have a rail spur; don't know the logistical details of green water lumber, but Point A -> barge -> Point B is likely better than Point A -> barge -> train -> Point B. And Flavelle's new light industrial would require neither barge nor train.
Yet the roads in Langley already exist, and they're flat, straight, and void of any hills/trees/suburbs. I'm no trucker, but I know which one I'd find easier to drive on.
Well, Port Moody's pressured Flavelle to leave, just like Vancouver and CANRON. The point is that there was an era where Yaletown was 100% industrial and you'd have to be a lunatic to see it as high-rise residential. Only time will tell, but Flavelle doesn't seem any more horrible a location than Marine Gateway or River Rock.
Mathematically, 178,000 square feet is anywhere between twenty inner-city warehouses and two big ones. That's more than enough for the mocap studios, developers, tradespeople et al that Port Moody seems to want to attract.
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There was a reason SEFC and NEFC were the last parts of the area to develop, and one of them was probably CANRON. Condos weren’t even supposed to BE in NEFC originally, and SEFC only really started planning once CANRON shut down. Unless you can get Pacific Coast Terminals to shut down... and CANRON only left because their facility burned down. If it didn’t, SEFC might never have gone through.
Pretty sure the “75,000 square feet of live/work space for artists and other creative industries” is actually a subsection of the 103 000 sq ft Industrial, but whatever. Vancouver added 3.2 MILLION sq feet in 2014-2015 alone.
https://www.avisonyoung.com/fileDownload...couver_IndustrialOverview_Spring2015.pdf
You mean the River Rock and Marine Gateway DIRECTLY connected to Skytrain (as in physically connected)... Really? Also, again with the rail spur?
Yes, I know Port Moody doesn’t want the industrial to stay but neither does it want density anyways. Just money grabs.
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