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1 month ago | 
westerninvestor.com | Mark Goodman
DEAL | Findlay Garden Apartments, a three-storey, 12-unit multi-family asset at 3223 Findlay St. in Vancouver’s Kensington-Cedar Cottage neighbourhood, sold April 27 for $3.4 million. This was short of the list price of $4 million and represented a cap rate of 3.7 per cent. Built in 1913 on a 0.2-acre lot holding R1-1 zoning, the lot is eligible for an eight-storey development at 3.0 FSR due to its location just off Commercial Drive within 800 metres of the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
imdb.com | Mark Goodman
The Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob. Enemies of the LDS Church think the church will die with Joseph. In fact that danger is a real possibility. The crisis is undeniable, and t... Read allThe Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob. Enemies of the LDS Church think the church will die with Joseph. In fact that danger is a real possibility. The crisis is undeniable, and the saints in Nauvoo are in chaos.The Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
vancouversun.com | Ian Brackett |Mark Goodman
Advertisement 1Opinion: Creating regulations which don't make building new homes economically feasible: What's the point? • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentWhen a local government adopts a new land use policy, it would be reasonable to think it has been financially tested and, on some level, offers a viable path to creating the type of housing it purports to allow.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
renx.ca | Steve McLean |Ian Brackett |Mark Goodman |Evan Duggan
GUEST SUBMISSION: When a local government adopts a new land use policy, it would be reasonable to think it has been financially tested and, on some level, offers a viable path to creating the type of housing it purports to allow. After all, what would be the point of spending time and scarce staff resources on plans that are largely pointless, or categorically counter-productive? Unfortunately, this logic doesn’t prevail across vast parts of Metro Vancouver.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
timescolonist.com | Mark Goodman |Ian Brackett |Mark Goodman
In passing its Transit-Oriented Development Area (TOA) legislation late last year, the provincial NDP government set up an inevitable tug-of-war with B.C. municipalities, some of which immediately decried the perceived provincial overstep into their jurisdiction.
Now that the June 30 deadline for municipalities to designate properties within the 104 TOAs across B.C. has passed, we are beginning to see the resistance emerge, sometimes with fireworks.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
vancouversun.com | Ian Brackett |Mark Goodman
Advertisement 1 Opinion: $71 million from the new Rental Protection Fund will purchase two housing co-operatives in Coquitlam City Centre — where city council had already taken action to protect them • • Article content How are we to understand the actions of a provincial government that passes legislation to impose minimum densities in 104 transit-oriented development areas across B.C., and then uses the first large payment from its own Rental Protection Fund not to increase the housing...
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
renx.ca | Danny Kucharsky |Don Wilcox |Evan Duggan |Mark Goodman
A major pharmaceutical firm is the first tenant of the $1-billion 40NetZERO, a site in Montréal-Est its developers say will become the largest carbon-neutral industrial park in North America. The seven-million-square-foot 40NetZERO site will include eight to 12 buildings with three million square feet of leasable industrial space when it’s completed in five or six years, says 40NetZERO co-founder and co-developer Peter Karambatsos. It will accommodate an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 employees.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
renx.ca | Mark Goodman |Don Wilcox |Evan Duggan |Ian Brackett
GUEST SUBMISSION: The B.C. provincial government sparked a flurry of interest when, in an effort to make more land available for much-needed urban housing, it passed legislation that increases heights and densities allowed on properties near transit stations and other so-called transit-oriented development (TOD) sites. It’s an important intervention.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
renx.ca | Steve McLean |Nicholas Sokic |Mark Goodman |Cynthia Jagger
Bricks-and-mortar retail has performed better than many expected after lockdowns, increased online shopping and other challenges brought on in recent years by the pandemic and ensuing economic uncertainty. A panel discussion moderated by National Bank Financial director and real estate research analyst Tal Woolley at the Sept. 12 RealREIT conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre examined how retail real estate owners have adapted and what they’re planning as they move forward.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
renx.ca | Steve McLean |Mark Goodman |Cynthia Jagger |Darrell Hurst
GUEST SUBMISSION: The federal government has finally confirmed its intention to remove GST charges on new rental housing, an excellent but critically delayed measure. The federal Liberals first promised this relief on the campaign trail in 2015 – eight long years ago, during which time a serious rental housing shortage turned into a national crisis.
