The Stack Tower, or is it just another stumpy office building in Vancouver, BC?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-stack-office-tower-1133-melville-street-vancouver-tallest-greenest

It's all about Stumps+and+Towers.

There is no office tower in Vancouver or BC that has ever been allowed to have a 40th floor. Seattle has the 76 story B of A tower & Toronto has the 72 story BMO tower. That's because those cities aren't under anything like the restrictions and limitations that Vancouver has. If you can't build a wall around BC, the next best thing is to limit or reduce the scale of things. Then continually fall behind with the overall infrastructure.

Vancouver not only has limited the scale of office towers, but residential towers as well. It would seem that there is more of a demand now for residential towers than office towers.

Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton all have allowed a residential tower to be taller than anything in Vancouver. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+House

London, UK for the longest time, refused to permit taller buildings. Then eventually as the land became so expensive, they eventually started to allow some towers that even rivaled that of Paris & Frankfurt. Some of the towers would not even be stumps when compared to those in NYC & Chicago.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage If the city would allow taller buildings, then the hotel companies could build more rooms on the lower half, while providing condos on the upper half. Or, visa versa. 

https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-shortage-council-motion Fortunatly, many other cities are able to keep up with getting more hotel rooms built. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/09/08/vancouver-hotels-shortage-city-councillor/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand

https://www.bcbusiness.ca/Land-Values-How-the-hotel-shortage-in-Vancouver-is-coinciding-with-a-boom-in-tourism

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-of-vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-new-policies

Of course by the late 1800s, Montreal & Toronto had a sense of becoming major cities. Then by the early & mid 1900s, it became even more apparent. In the early 21st century, Vancouver is still stuck in a multi-decade rut of wanting to stunt, thwart or hold back the city in any way possible.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+No+Fun+City

Most of the regional bridges or crossings have been deliberately kept so narrow that it's almost impossible to have a proper regional express bus network to compliment the short sighted Skytrain stations.

All the narrow bridges should have had additional Bus+and+HOV+Lane bridges by now.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=HOV

The stump city has so much potential, but only if Vancouver reaches for the sky.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=stumps

The Broadway Tower Plan

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-plan-towers-yimbys-vancouver

The part of Broadway just south of the downtown Vancouver core is ideally suited to be a 2nd  downtown. Despite having some view corridor protections, Downtown_Montreal and Austin are still allowed to build taller than what's allowed in Vancouver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Montreal#Tallest_buildings

Montreal already has three 200m towers, with 3 more 200m towers under_construction. Plus, 3 more 200m buildings_in_the planning stages. In contrast very strict Vancouver, has only permitted one 200m building. Any taller building in BC must be built outside of the city limits of Vancouver.

Downtown_Austin has 3 towers over 200m, with four more towers over 200m under construction. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Austin,_Texas

There are at least another four towers over 200m being planned. 

The Living_Shangri-La tower is the only 200m building allowed in Downtown_Vancouver. It looks like there will be no other 200m tower permitted anywhere in Vancouver for the foreseeable future. For most of its history, the biggest stuff in the BC part of Canada was only in extremely restrictive Vancouver.

However, Burnaby will now have the tallest_buildings_in_British_Columbia and Vancouver can't stop it. Eventually, Surrey might have some of the tallest buildings in BC, but that still could be a ways off. 

The Twin Towers of the Royal Liver Building: 1,911

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/The_Royal_Liver_Buildings_-_geograph.org.uk_-_526323.jpg RLB https://rlb360.com/history , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Liver_Building

So, John Lennon started a band in a city where a big building is topped with twin towers. Eventually, he moves to another city that becomes famous for its giant twin towers.

http://notesintune.blogspot.com/2011/09/beatles-synchronicity-with-911.html

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http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/worldheritagecity/ThreeGraces.asp,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/webcams/liver_building_webcam.shtml,

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/gallery/d/9734-1/cunard-building-liverpool-aa06050b.jpg
The Royal_Liver_Building was completed in the year 1,911 on July 19 & is topped with two towers & birds.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmorgan/150568724,

http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com/visitingthewhs/areas/pierhead/royaliverbuildings.asp,
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/511448/Royal-Liver-Building,

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/stewartbale/architecture/liverbuilding.aspx,

http://www.brenthughes.com/travel/england08/england08JE2/england08LiverBuildingNight.JPG,

http://www.johndavies.uk.com/liv-liv.htm,

http://jonathan.rawle.org/gallery/liverpool/liver

Driving on the waterfront road eventually reveals the Liver Building complex with its twin towers.

http://eyetumour.co.uk/images/large/royal_liver_building.jpg

A similar effect was created with much taller twin towers in NYC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WTC-looking_north.jpg

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Before the Liver Building, architect Walter_Aubrey_Thomas had designed the 11 story Tower Buildings. Most accounts of the day that he died state that had occurred on September 13. However, there is one web site that makes a distinction between the 11th & the 13th.

So far, this flickr site seems to be the only place on the Web that states, Walter A Thomas died on September 11, 1934.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/sets/72157621987971328

It was his obituary that was published on the 13th of September.

The Liver Building Ice Sculpture Liverpool event took place at Liverpool One on 11th September 2009.

http://www.viewliverpool.co.uk/listings/liver-building-ice-sculpture-liverpool-feature-3271.html,

http://images.travelpod.com/users/traveled/1.1226164020.edinburgh_073.jpg

The Liverpool Urban Legend of Cease to Exist.

Legend has it that "If the Liver Birds were to fly away Liverpool would cease to exist"

http://www.liverbirdology.com/history.htm

Manson writes Cease to Exist & became an intense Beatles fan in the 1960s.

http://www.lostinthegrooves.com/short-bits-2-charles-manson-and-the-beach-boys

The Beatles, The Beach Boys & Charles Manson share a strong synchronicity with the #911, among other things.

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You can find a lot of things connected to the #911, it just depends upon how curious people are with coincidence & synchronicity.

"The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)#Windows_Live_Search

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http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/2010/09/terminal-connection.html

Toughest time ever to afford a house in Vancouver, Canada

 https://vancouversun.com/news/toughest-time-ever-to-afford-a-house-vancouver-in-full-blown-crisis-rbc-report

If developers were allowed to build, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane size towers, as long as they also built some commonly affordable rental buildings, that would be an incentive. Sure, developers can build sky-high in Dubai, NYC & Chicago, but that's usually just for luxurious condo suites.

If developers in Vancouver & BC in general want to build much taller towers, they should also build a lot of low to mid-rise commonly affordable condominiums & rental units. Thus, by doing that in tandem, would allow them to build, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane size towers. 

Unfortunately, unless the very strict Vancouver height limitations are updated to proper big city standards, semi-tall luxurious condo towers will be built, but with no incentive for developers to build a lot of affordable housing for a much larger market.

Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto

The Greater Toronto Area has been the only place in Canada where some Australian size residential towers have been permitted. So far, Montreal & Vancouver won't allow any residential towers to even reach 65 stories.

If Montreal were to ever allow something like a La_Defense, Parramatta or a Canary_Wharf on the London_Docklands, then some Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto size towers would potentially be allowed.

Extremely restrictive Vancouver can't stop Burnaby, Coquitlam & especially Surrey from eventually having some Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto size towers.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3200-east-broadway-vancouver-rupert-station-mst-aquilini Since these buildings would be within the small city linmits of Vancover, they won't be allowed to be on the scale of what Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto permit.

No residential or office tower within the city limits of little Vancouver is allowed to be as tall as the Telus_Sky tower at 222.3 m (729 ft) in Calgary and Seattle's Rainier_Square_Tower at 850-foot (260 m). 

The Living_Shangri-La tower, at 200.86 metres (659 ft) and the Paradox_Hotel_Vancouver at 188-metre (617 ft) are the tallest within Vancouver.

Unfortunatly, Montreal can't quite be included into the category with, Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto (BSMT). That's because their tallest buildings still have to be shorter that what Paris & Melbourne allow. However, the Greater Montreal transportation infrastructure is at a level of what you would expect for a big city to have. Fortunately, Québec has never been thwarted by anything like a BC Mind Virus (BCMV).

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane%2C+Sydney%2C+Melbourne+and+Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line

Senakw's first rental housing towers begin to take shape

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/senakw-squamish-first-nation-vancouver-towers-construction-july-2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver

The tallest buildings in this Vancouver development should have been taller than the tallest building in NW. 

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/pier-west-1/30319 

178 m / 584 ft https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/3304

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/real-estate-news/new-wests-changing-skyline-pier-west-towers-hit-top-heights-7676861

Senakw should have had at least 2 or 3 towers much taller than the Living_Shangri-La, the tallest in Vancouver. Something like the Crown_Sydney scale, is banned in Vancouver, but it's OK for big city Sydney & SF.

Tip	271.3 metres (890 ft)
Observatory	250 metres (820 feet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Sydney#Approval

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Tallest_proposed_and_under_construction Most of BC is a backwater wildernes that is unapealling for people, but great for wildlife & vegetation. 

The plan was to continually thwart Vancouver, Victoria & Kelowna for as long as possible. That in turn slows down the few key areas of urban grown in BC. NSW & California, just never had the same, KEEP THEM OUT MENTALITY. Thus, they were able to think & properly plan for growth. There seems to be an unwritten rule, that as long as Vancouver can do things which are impressive to Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-and-Kamloops, that's good enough.

Sydney, NSW & SF, California just were never under the extreme restrictions that Vancouver has. Plus, Syd & SF haven't been under a multigenerational agenda to keep holding those scenic cities back. 

Sydney and SF aren't afraid to build taller next to a bridge, like Vancouver is. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney#Tallest_buildings_(150m+)

"The taller tower, One Rincon Hill South Tower, was completed in 2008 and stands 60 stories and 641 feet (195 m) tall.^[A][B] The shorter tower, marketed as Tower Two at One Rincon Hill, was completed in 2014 and reaches a height of 541 feet (165 m) with 50 stories." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Rincon_Hill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_San_Francisco#Tallest_buildings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_San_Francisco#Tallest_under_construction,_approved_and_proposed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_central_business_district#Transport This is what you are able to do when you aren't bound by the limiting mentality & backward agenda that Vancouver has. For some reason, Vancouver hasn't been able to get established big cities to emulate its congestive & inept planning standards. That's because most major cities want to plan & implement good transportation infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Public_transportation

Fortunately, Sydney & SF never wanted to take the backwards Vancouver approach to things.

Canada is far off from even containing 1% of the world's human population & BC has yet to have the population of 1 Switzerland. Proper infrastructure planning like in Japan & S. Korea, the UK, CH & Germany, has already been able to accommodate many more people. However, most of the world is non-white & some parts of Canada still want to hold onto the old White British Colonial mentality for as long as possible.

Austin has-more-skyscrapers-planned

 https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/01/28/austin-more-skyscrapers-planned.html

https://aquilacommercial.com/learning-center/austin-cbd-2024/

https://austin.towers.net/

https://austin.towers.net/cielo-plans-two-towers-on-a-full-downtown-block-at-fourth-and-brazos

https://austin.towers.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/4th_brazos_east_south.jpg

Cities, the BIG and the small of it

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/CN_Tower_1976.jpg/330px-CN_Tower_1976.jpg , https://www.britannica.com/topic/CN-Tower Standing at a height of 1,815 feet (553 meters)  

1815' divided by 581' is almost 3.13 times the height of a stump in Vancouver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre "Skyscraperpage lists the buildings height to the roof as being only 139.6 m (458 ft). This is stated to be the height from the Hastings Street entrance while the height from the back entrance on Cordova Street is 146 m (479 ft). It also lists the buildings pinnacle height to the tip of the antenna as being 177.1 m (581 ft)." STUMP!

This Vancouver stump is only 32% of the CN Towers height. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/A_look_downtown_%28759827996%29.jpg/960px-A_look_downtown_%28759827996%29.jpg The Harbour_Centre building should have been on the scale of something like the Hopewell_Centre_(Hong_Kong). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place The BMO. Unlike Chicago, Toronto has no 100 story office towers.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/First_Canadian_Place_August_2017_01.jpg/500px-First_Canadian_Place_August_2017_01.jpg Its a 72 story HQ tower in Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver)#Three_Bentall_Centre A 32 story BC office stump.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Bentall_3.jpg/330px-Bentall_3.jpg

Being from small Vancouver, its amazing that Canada even has one megacity. Toronto is certainly a big city on a lakeshore like Chicago is. Montreal isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as Melbourne, let alone NYC. Montreal has allowed only one office tower to be over 50 floors and a few residential towers in the 60s. 

Calgary has more 50+ story office towers than Denver and Perth. No 40 story office tower exists in BC. The office section of the Harbour_Centre doesn't even have a 30th floor and the revolving restaurant is closer to being like 35 floors up. However, with the overall building being 481 feet, it would be equivalent to 40 floors, if the windows went right up to the top. The flagpole has no windows, but the flag would be like the equivalent of being 48 floors up.

Not just Toronto & Montreal, but Edmonton and Seattle have longer underground train stations than backwards, congested Vancouver. 

The Iron+Bridge, Oak+Street+Bridge, Knight+Street+Bridge & the Arthur+Laing+Bridge should all have a bus+and+bike bridge built next to them. The extremely inadequate Lion+Bridge should have already had a bus and train tunnel close to it. 

Burnaby vs. Vancouver's stumps

 https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/two-more-towers-up-to-80-storeys-tall-more-rental-housing-could-be-coming-to-burnabys-brentwood-8461795

This illustration shows Vancouver stumps next to some Burnaby towers. https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/bc-tel-boot-redevelopment-burnaby-1500-homes-900-rentals-towers-up-to-64-storeys-7957610

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/two-massive-towers-at-60-storeys-43-storeys-planned-for-burnabys-brentwood-7674810

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/hotel-proposed-in-giant-highrise-development-in-burnabys-brentwood-7741609

Vancouver Centre 2 office tower, or is it just another stump?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-centre-ii-office-tower-tenants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia_Tower Of course it had to be shorter than the 2 tallest pyramids in Egypt. They used to be even taller when originally built.

The Scotia_Plaza in Toronto is double the height & twice the width than the stump in Vancouver.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/height.html VC Towers 1 & 2 weren't allowed to be taller than the original height of the Great_Pyramid_of_Giza in Cairo, Egypt either.

Vancouver Centre Tower 2 is definitely shorter than the Pyramid_of_Khafre.

A lot of cities have tall office towers, but Vancouver won't permit any to have 40 floors, nevermind 50, 60 or 70. Today, office towers might have to be designed to potentially be repurposed, as the need for office space declines.

In many cases, a 60 story residential tower might be the height equivalent of a 45-50 story office tower. That's because office floors are usually higher than residential floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver

It's interesting that Vancouver & BC chose to use some Egyptian pyramid symbolism. 

https://globalnews.ca/news/4627676/bc-liberals-new-brand

https://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pyramids_of_the_Giza_Necropolis.jpg. 

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images , https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=bcliberaIs

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/here-s-what-the-bc-liberal-party-may-change-its-name-to-1.6086133

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-election-2017-bc-liberals-different-federal-liberals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Park_Board 3 mountains that look a lot like pyramids.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Vancouver_Park_Board_logo.png 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Giza-pyramids-uwm.png 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Giza-pyramids.JPG

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Conservative_Party_of_BC_Logo.png In this case, it's just a big and a small one.

Egypt eventually had to allow structures to be taller than their classic pyramids. However, it wasn't until the 1970s when the BC part of Canada would ever so slightly, allow some buildings to be taller than the great pyramid. Fortunately, most real major cities around the world don't have to adhere to anything like the strict Vancouver type height restrictions & other limitations. Even the mountains just north of Vancouver are shorter than the mountains that are north of LA.

The Cairo_Tower was the first Egyptian building allowed to exceed the height of the Great_Pyramid_of_Giza.  

Architectural	187 m (613.5 ft)
Antenna spire	187 m (613.5 ft)
Roof	160 m (524.9 ft)
Top floor	143 m (469.2 ft)
Observatory	143 m (469.2 ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Tower It opened in 1961.

It was was quite a long time before another building in SF was allowed to be taller than the 1972 era Transamerica_Pyramid.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/Transamerica_Pyramid_Tower.jpg

A few other pyramidal towers would eventually rival the height of the Transamerica_Pyramid.

The_Shard in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Faisaliah_Tower 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparison_of_pyramids_SMIL.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Egypt#Tallest_under_construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings

Vancouver buildings over 152.4 meters or 500 feet

It took a very long time for Vancouver to have its first building permitted to rise over 500 feet in height. 

152.4 meters = 500 feet and 150 meters = 492.12 feet 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1

 https://www.straight.com/article-371138/vancouver/city-approves-new-policy-taller-buildings-downtown-vancouver While there are some taller resedential towers, Vancouver still has no office tower with at least a 40th floor. Portland,_Oregon has 2. Perth, WA has 2 office towers with at least 50 floors. The_Bow tower in Calgary has 60 floors, when you count all the levels. The Columbia_Center in Seattle has 80 floors in total. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Cityscape

450 feet is equal to about 137.16 meters and that was the height restriction imposed on Vancouver for most of its restrictive, red-tape history. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver

The powers that be tried their damndest to not allow most Vancouver buildings to be taller than the Smith_Tower, Commerce_Court_North and the Los_Angeles_City_Hall until after the year 2000. Of course in 2025 those buildings are like stumps now, but would still be tall by small Vancouver standards.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6965 , https://www.smithtower.com/about/ 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=27&searchname=timeline

https://beautifulwashington.com/images/sky-view-observatory/sky-view-observatory-at-columbia-center-9.jpg

https://beautifulwashington.com/king-county/attractions/seattle/448-sky-view-observatory.html  

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/heres-a-cheap-way-to-view-seattles-skyline-coffee-at-the-starbucks-on-the-40th-floor-of-the-columbia-tower The 40th floor of an 80 story building, when you count the mechanical or plant floors as well. Perhaps some day strict Vancouver might permit an office building to have a 40th floor. 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1&status=15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Tallest_under_construction_or_proposed 

stumps and towers

396-southeast-marine-drive-vancouver-office-towers-hungerford

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/396-southeast-marine-drive-vancouver-office-towers-hungerford

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-commercial-safeway-redevelopment-revised-skytrain-rental-housing-towers

Some new towers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/east-village-westbank-bc-housing-vancouver-hastings-street-towers

Even if some truly affordable housing could be built, there would still be people against the taller high density towers.

A-look-at-Austin's-new-crop-of-downtown-towers

https://archinect.com/news/article/150174901/a-look-at-austin-s-new-crop-of-downtown-towers

A mixed use tower can be quite an economical way of concentrating various services & features.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=towers

Towers of Vietnam

https://aedesign.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/vietinbank-towers-hanoi-vietnam/vietinbank-towers-2

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=291

Is the Stack, a tower or a stump?

 https://storeys.com/james-cheng-the-stack-vancouver

In Seattle, Toronto, Calgary & even Montreal, this would almost be just another average stump building. Those cities & so many more around the planet, have long since allowed office towers to have more than 40 floors. However, in the BC part of Canada, there is no office tower that has reached 40 stories, just a few residential towers are taller. Yet, sometimes the land value in Vancouver is more than in Toronto.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-view-cone-restrictions-policies

Of course Seattle, Toronto, Calgary & Montreal have been allowed to be proper big cities, simple because they aren't under any Vancouver type restrictions or limitations.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouvers-shrinking-skyline

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/larwill-park-office-towers-vancouver-concept

Nevermind Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, LA, SF, Seattle, Toronto, Calgary & Montreal, Vancouver isn't even allowed to build as tall as the tallest buildings in Vaughan, Mississauga, Edmonton & Belleview, WA. 

https://storeys.com/cities/mississauga

https://storeys.com/cities/toronto/

https://storeys.com/cities/calgary/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto-SF

Vancouver city council decision on controversial towers development delayed

 https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-council-decision-towers-delayed-june-10

There is a good argument to have more affordable housing in these towers.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-housing-city-hall-polka

Thus, if a developer was allowed to build 10-20 floors higher by including more affordable units, then there would be more vertical space to work with. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1780-east-broadway-commercial-vancouver-safeway-proposal-public-hearing While these would be consider to be MEGATOWERS by Victoria, Prince George & Kamloops, they wouldn't be in Burnaby or eventually Surrey & Coquitlam.   

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Commercial-Broadway_station.jpg

The Safeway, parking lot & the Commercial-Broadway_station area is all a prime high-rise development zone.

Stumps and Towers

Stumps+and+Towers is part of a series of posts showing how so many other cities are able to build so much taller & wider that what is permitted in Vancouver, Canada.

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2020/01/06/granville-street-700-block-east-side-4/

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/beatty-street-500-block-2/

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/west-pender-street-east-from-cambie/

 https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/view-from-harbour-centre-lookout-south-east/

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/west-cordova-and-granville-2/

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-marine-building/

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/west-hastings-street-west-from-howe-street/

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/guinness-tower-west-hastings-street/

The stump city could have taken a much better approach to saving some historical buildings, while still growing up like a proper big city.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Stumps+and+Towers

BC Government housing near Nanaimo Station in E. Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3805-3919-nanaimo-street-vancouver-coromandel-bc-government-housing

Proper big planning should have been implemented at least a few decades ago. Now people have finally been bought out so that denser housing can be put in.

https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/grandview-woodland-community-plan.aspx

The Broadway Station area remains a constipated mess. Stubborn people refuse to accept or be bought out, because NIMBY is the perpetual way to be in BC. Nevermind a magnificent 80 story tower, even 40 floors is too much for this constipated part of Vancouver.

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/two-more-towers-up-to-80-storeys-tall-more-rental-housing-could-be-coming-to-burnabys-brentwood-8461795

The intersection of 2 Skytrain lines, but no Brentwood size towers. 

The trench or cut at Commercial_and_Broadway could easily be covered over, so that big towers can go up. However, the constipated NIMBYs refuse to receive an urban enema & be pushed out. They don't want growth, because that means more non-white people in their neighborhood. But as long as they don't set up a bunch of KEEP THEM OUT signs, their agenda remains strong. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%E2%80%93Broadway_station

https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/station/commercial-broadway/map

Vancouver & the metropolitan region remains very stunted when compared to Toronto & Montreal. At least Burnaby, Coquitlam & Surrey are starting to allow a larger scale.

Original twin towers plan for Bank of America Plaza in Dallas

https://web.archive.org/web/20160108020002mp_/http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/files/2013/05/boaplans1.jpg

"Original plans for the development, initially called Dallas Main Center, called for two 72-story towers, a 600-room hotel, and a parking garage." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Plaza_(Dallas)#Design

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/downtown-dallas-bank-of-america-twin-towers--497999671272253343/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/1ctfwc2/did_you_know_these_dallas_buildings_were/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150518082422/http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/downtown-dallas-tallest-tower-was-always-planned-as-a-skyline-standout.html/

https://baplaza.com , https://baplaza.com/overview

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+Plaza