Seems to me there were supposed to have been some row housing built on this site and it never happened.
SO what, Major gets off scott free???
Make him live up the the agreement that he seems to have skipped out on....

Ok I am confused here. There are already 3 levels of parkade at the chances bingo downtown. I am not a fan of underground parking because they are not safe. At least I do not feel safe parking and walking alone down there. But it is done and I just dont park there. :}

There are two levels of parking at Chances: one is underground and the other is above ground.

There were supposed to be 6 units built on the north-east corner of the propoerty above the parkade facing Quebec Street. They were not built because extension(s) were granted when requested. In my opinion they were placed there because that is what Council wanted. Had they ever been built, they would have become slums, in my opinion. The bedroom windows would have been immediately adjacent to the above parkade parking.

Quebec St. is not exactly a millionnaire's row along Cordova in Vancouver where one can get away with such proximity of entry "yardlet" to the adjacent pedestrian and vehicular street.

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It is time that Council came to its senses about letting the people in this community know how this project was paid for and which part is public and which is private. The project will continue with the new owners and it should be clarified.

I don't know why it takes this amount of effort to get Council to realize that the City has done a poor job of letting the people in this community know the details at the level we should know them.

Let us see how the new communications guru deals with this. A nice little test for him.

So now we hire another 'expert' probably from out of town, to tell the people in charge what they probably already know.
Krause; "I think we will find that the council of the day made the right decisions" He means the elected council before this current one, of which both he and Basserman were members. Are he and Basserman inferring that they had no involvement in the bad decision to use city funds to build the parkade? Such a pile of steaming horse apples is this!
So who owns the above grade parking lot?
Is it Commonwealth's? or is it still Majors? Will the city ever be able to HONESTLY rationalize the decisions made by "the council of the day"? Krause and Basserman are consummate politicians, I would not trust anything they say.
metalman.

There is more to this 'underground' story than has been spoken yet. I'm of the opinion a a handsome sum changed hands after this was built.