Vancouver’s Mayor Moonbeam (and his hair) wants the city to purchase the extremely successful Granville Island from the federal government. Why? No one is entirely sure. The only thing that is certain is that the actual price doesn’t appear to matter. Why should it? It’s not their money they’d be spending.
This will guarantee that ratepayers of Vancouver will be hosed for a substantial sum.
Since the federal govt. currently subsidizes artist and vendor venues there, I’m sure the city of Vancouver will be happy to pick up that tab as well.
If you hear a sucking sound, its probably your money going down the storm drain at Granville Island.
I’d like to hear how Mayor Moonbeam Bicycle Path is going to finance a $500 million purchase price by placing tolls on the Stanley Park bike path.
This should make for great family entertainment value…NOT!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
One question. If the Feds subsidize rents on Granville (as stated in the article), in what regard is it considered successful?
Maybe they should fix the Skytrain system instead?
This is me, sitting and laughing from the States. A little. I kid because I love.
(Here in Portland we have a money-losing light rail system, but in the MAX system’s defense it actually works, like pretty much all the time.
And you can buy a ticket from your phone.)
Vision Vancouver already has proposed a massive increase in borrowing and spending before this episode.
And don’t forget to add in the cost to buy the Arbutus Corridor lands from the railway.
More borrowing. But Mayor Moonbeam has uber rich $ American backers and Tides Canada buying property adjacent to land he owns so it can be made into a Park and this make his land more valuable.
If you are Green and rich, the little people must just obey.
So he can give it to the indians, along with that strip of land under the Burrard Street bridge
He’d most likely make it a pedestrian and bicycle area only.
Heh. I remember, many years ago, going to a snooty restaurant on Granville Island, driving a truly crusty-rusty clapped-out hooptie of a Datsun 710. Went to hand it off to the parking valet, and he said, “No, I think I’ll let you park it. I can’t drive standard.” Made my day, it did.
The last thing Granville Island needs is Mayor Marxist getting his sticky fingers on it… Gregorie and diVision are owned by Tides and beholden to big developers thats why the city is under assault from development and has useless bike lanes that conveniently extend right to the Mayors front yard. Mayor Gregorie is doing a fine job of selling out the good of the city to developers and creating traffic chaos with his bike lane fascism, giving him and his comrades access to GI would only assure the same deranged results.
Oh good. The Mayor wants to buy the best attraction in Vancouver. GI is the one place I always visit when I go to Vancouver. I lived near there in the eighties and worked there for a while as a catering manager at the restaurant right at its entrance. GI is a jewel and a very rare example of when the feds do something right.
They will screw GI up. I used to love to go to Chinatown, Now I wouldn’t go near the place without a hazmat suit and a revolver.
My $0.02
Whatever the net rate per foot the federal gov’t charges – the “monthly subsidy” = x
The current moonbat mayor thinks he can (council can…) charge 1.15 x that rate. Whatever he thinks their rent is, he can do better. It’s possible they don’t even know it’s subsidized.
6 months after the sale, none of the local outlets can make the rent, and Granville Island is virtually empty, and the city council returns to the tax farm for an extra bit of harvest.
Just think how many chicken coops and marijuana farms it could accommodate!
Expanding the Portland Hotel maybe???
Mayor Moonbat will justify it, by creating new slums, er, “homeless shelters” there.
There is no end to the VV insanity. But the voters of Vankonger keep voting for these moonbats and rentseekers. They promise everything, and deliver very little.
But they’re not evil knuckledragging right wingers, and thats okay with the LIVs
Another question. If the Feds subsidize rents on Granville (as stated in the article), why don’t the Feds stop giving money (taken from people all across Canada who work for their living) to people who live on Granville Island for a living?
Gregor has a river of money from increased property taxes. Plus, if they didn’t dump him after the hockey riots, he obviously doesn’t have much to worry about on the re-election front.
The will turn the Island into an injection site for junkies. Of course with your money.
Nothing should ever be sold to radical environmentalists. Ever.
I didn’t consider that… My initial thought was they’re going to try and make money on this, and then they’ll fail as they have no idea what they’re doing.
I didn’t consider they’d pay top dollar, and “sell” at the bottom of the market intentionally.
Seems expensive real estate to be doing that…
Portland has the worst traffic I have ever seen. The lack of infrastructure – specifically bridges is criminal. Some things mass transit cannot solve.
Heh heh, talk about yer basic isolated/insulated utopian dreamer – this snoid doesn’t even realize that every bit of real estate in BC is encumbered by native claims which the hippie BC courts are giving credibility. The island isn’t his to buy nor theirs to sell – he’s making the offer only to the tenants who occupy native claims, he needs to send his offer to the BC native syndicate and the BC court of Birkenstock and cosmic consciousness.
Perhaps the taxpayers in the ROC can solve some of the federal problems by setting the price at a billion or so. Vancouver’s insolvency is a provincial mater, so when Victoria comes crawling about the looming bankruptcy of BC’s 2nd looniest city, the feds can responds with; “So about those pipe lines”