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Woodward’s Redevelopment. A model for cultural sustainability and ethical urban renewal. The Woodward’s Redevelopment is a large-scale, mixed-use project encompassing almost an entire city block in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The project is unique in the history of Vancouver due to its inclusivity, social aspirations, scale and the ...
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Feb 25, 2015 · Woodward's Redevelopment included 200 units of affordable housing -- nearly two-thirds at welfare shelter rates -- and 536 market condominiums. Photo by David P. Ball.
The redevelopment was seen by many as a key to revitalizing the Downtown Eastside. Still, the demolition of the structure in 2006 and redevelopment of the site have been met with much local resistance from the neighbourhood's existing residents. Woodward's redevelopment is complete, with many residents and businesses in the buildings. [1]
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- 'One of The Least Surprising Surprises'
- Unlikely Partnership
Department stores had their heyday in Ontario and Quebec in the late 19th century, according to Donica Belisle, an associate professor of history at the University of Regina. "They became important distributors of the new goods that were being produced in the factories," said Belisle. "They really kind of revolutionized the way people shopped and ....
Today, some department stores like Sears have failed to keep afloat in a competitive retail marketplace. But Belisle says the decline of department stores began earlier than most people think — she pegs the downward trend as early as the 1920s. It was then that family budgets were being squeezed by the new costs of vehicles, she says. And chain sto...
It was 1992 when Woodward's said it would close its downtown location. Gordon Price, former director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, was an NPA council member at the time. The Downtown Eastside was once a working-class neighbourhood, Price points out. But Woodward's began to struggle even more as the area shifted into the poverty an...
According to Price, it took an unlikely partnership between two people on opposite poles of the political spectrum to turn the building into what it is today — an eclectic mix of social housing, luxury condos, a university and retail space. On the one side of that partnership was the now-deceased Jim Green, a municipal councillor and the former hea...
The redevelopment was seen by many as a key to revitalizing the Downtown Eastside. However, the demolition of the structure in 2006 and redevelopment of the site has been met with much local resistance from the neighbourhood's existing residents. Woodward's redevelopment is complete, with many residents and businesses in the buildings.
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Dec 22, 2014 · Officially opened in 2010, the Woodward’s Redevelopment project designed by Vancouver based Henriquez Partners Architects and situated in the city’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), was a contentious ...
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The Woodward's redevelopment is now complete with many residents and businesses now in the buildings New construction on the Woodward's site In 2003 the City of Vancouver, led by City Council member Jim Green, purchased the building from the province for $5 million, and began a public consultation process, asking the community what they wanted from the redevelopment.
