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Woodwards Building Condos Up for Sale

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An Unknown Author expressing local resistance by writing on a Woodward’s Sign prior to it’s Deconstruction in 2006 – Photo by Eyeye

On the heels of my last post, Gentrification of Vancouver’s DTES and the impact on our local Hospitals, I wanted to quickly mention the recent completion of Woodward’s first of two towers this [...]

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Blogservations – The Impact of Gentrification in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side on our Local Hospitals

In my many observations of Vancouver, one controversial and relevant to me, is the Gentrification of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES).  Wikipedia defines Gentrification as, ‘the socio-economic, commercial, and demographic change in an urban area resulting from wealthier people buying housing property in a poor community.’  Gentrification of our city’s DTES has lead to higher [...]

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09/09/09 – September 9th, 2009

Today being the 9th day of the 9th month in 2009 can be very special and lucky for some people or just a calender anomaly and others might even view the date a superstitious ominous warning.  Today, is the last set of repeating single digit dates we will see for almost a century, until January [...]

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Welcome to Robyn’s Nesting Space

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog.  Having my own personal blog has been something I have been wanting to do for over the past year as I always feel I have so many topics to talk and write about.  I’m not quite too sure the direction of this blog or what [...]

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