City Approves Moving Vancouver Art Gallery to North East False Creek

City Approves Moving Vancouver Art Gallery to North East False Creek: As well as a new roof for BC Place and highrise towers on the Plaza of Nations site.

Late last week the City of Vancouver approved the plan to build a brand new art gallery on the site of the old Plaza of Nations. The re-development would also include the a number of new highrise condo buildings, a new retractable roof for BC Place and retail opportunities around a new plaza. Although this area is a bit dead at the moment. I do see the possibilities for this area in the future. It could work as a link between the International Village / Tinseltown area condos and False Creek, especially once Concord Pacific builds its last False Creek towers (in the area that looks like a parking lot to the left (east) in this photo.

I am a bit disturbed that PavCo (the provincially owned corporation that is responsible for BC Place) will not be held to the same standards as other developers. They will not be required to provide an affordable housing compenent, nor money for community amenities.

You can read the CBC news story about this here as well as some adidtional, and some not always eloquent, commentary.

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