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Originally Posted by 68style
They don't need to close to construct a little city there. Did Brentwood mall close when they re-did that entire area? Nope...
Go by Lansdowne and read the billboards at the outer edges of the parking lot. Ask the retailers in the mall, all the small stores are getting the boot as their leases come up. I've lived in Richmond my whole life and next to Lansdowne for the better part of 14 years.
Same with Richmond Centre, the entire Sears parkade and Sears building is being torn off the mall and turned into towers.
Richmond has always had a restriction on all towers, not necessarily even because of the airport (though that is a factor) but also the ground doesn't support anything more than ~15 floors (will appear as a 17 floor building due to China not liking 4th or 14th floors). Not sure why someone even brought that up as a potential factor against this happening.
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I thought they banned bypassing floor numbers because of issues w/ the fire department? Or was that only City of Vancouver?