As mentioned at the beginning of this year, we've been planning on taking our coverage outside of downtown Vancouver, to have a look at some of the new development that is occurring in other parts of the GVRD.
Over the next few weeks, we'll cover some of the biggest projects that are going up in each of the Eight Town Centres, and in a few other places as well.
(Click here for our original post from a couple years ago on the Eight Town Centres).
A recent report by the GVRD stated that by 2031, the GVRD could be home to 3.3 million people, up from 2.2 million today. (Link to Sun article here).
So how will our region accommodate all of these new residents?
Density seems to be the answer (or 'intensification', as they call it), as the Liveable Region Strategic Plan aims to increase the concentration of people in each of the town centres.
Essentially, this means building more apartments or multi-unit dwellings in place of detatched homes or former industrial lands. This is preferable to the other alternative, which would mean extending our urban sprawl by building out over the region's agricultural land reserve.
So, as new developments are rapidly rising in places such as Burnaby, New Westminster and Coquitlam, we figured that now would be a good time to see how these new town centres are starting to come together.
Since we'll be straying out of our familiar territory, we'll appreciate any contributions from our readers, especially as they pertain to information on projects we've missed, and construction photos as well.
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