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Mixed-Use, V.2: Big Box Living

Posted by: Tim Halbur

15 November 2009 - 1:00pm

The Rise, a new mixed-use development in Vancouver, includes 1,500 condos, sushi restaurants, art galleries - and a Home Depot.

From The Globe and Mail:

"Paul Buck has spectacular views of downtown Vancouver from the two glass walls of his condo, which wow everyone who walks in.

But what really impressed one of Mr. Buck's friends, in from a town near the Yukon border, is that he lives over a giant Home Depot."

"Mr. Buck also lives over a major grocery store, a Winners, a sushi restaurant, a cellphone shop, and a Starbucks, in a complex that has broken new barriers when it comes to an increasingly popular development trend: the mixed-used project."

Full Story: Living above the store
Source: The Globe and Mail, November 10, 2009
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