This from MPM at greaterfool.ca 30 Nov 2009 11:08 am -
“I have lived near this street for 6 years [Denman St in Vancouver], and currently there are 4 empty stores (the most I have ever seen). Two of them say that they are renovating, but there is never anyone there. I imagine that most of them are being pushed out by greedy landlords charging insane prices to lease a 250 sq ft store… Just up the road, there is a ‘dream condo’ development – 8 floors on Robson st with a Starbucks on the street, what else in Vancouver?? This was a perfectly functioning office building for the past 40 years before the idea of building condos. Construction stopped about a year ago and it is completely covered by tarps. The only work happening on the site is the security guard that you see there once in a blue moon….”
