A Building Boom to Welcome the Winter Games to Vancouver (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By Christopher Solomon
Published: January 13, 2008
AS the sawdust flies in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Olympics, new hotels — and many other things as well — are rising around Vancouver.
More than a half-dozen higher-end hotel projects will open in the next few years from Vancouver to the resort town of Whistler, about 80 miles to the north, where the Alpine and Nordic races will be held. Most hope to open before the Olympics.
It’s all part of a larger construction boom around B.C., although much of the activity is centered on greater Vancouver: between July and September 2007, there were 843 major capital projects planned or under way province-wide, worth a record 135 billion Canadian dollars, about the same in U.S. dollars, according to the province’s Ministry of Economic Development.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/travel/13headsup.html?ref=travel
By Christopher Solomon
Published: January 13, 2008
AS the sawdust flies in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Olympics, new hotels — and many other things as well — are rising around Vancouver.
More than a half-dozen higher-end hotel projects will open in the next few years from Vancouver to the resort town of Whistler, about 80 miles to the north, where the Alpine and Nordic races will be held. Most hope to open before the Olympics.
It’s all part of a larger construction boom around B.C., although much of the activity is centered on greater Vancouver: between July and September 2007, there were 843 major capital projects planned or under way province-wide, worth a record 135 billion Canadian dollars, about the same in U.S. dollars, according to the province’s Ministry of Economic Development.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/travel/13headsup.html?ref=travel
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