From BC Business —Kelowna Plans A $35-Million Centre for Startups

Spearheaded by the Kelowna Sustainable Innovation Group, a consortium of private sector investors, a 106,000-square-foot Okanagan Centre for Innovation dedicated to “supporting innovation, technology industry and entrepreneurial growth” in the region, is planned for the north side of downtown Kelowna. The $35-million development, which will be co-owned by the province, KSIG and the city, is slated for completion by early 2016. Kelowna plans a $35-million centre for startups | BC Business

"Nanaimo Hilton still exists only in artist rendering... the artist needs to learn to colour within the lines, and keep its hotel on hotel property." — @NanaimoBulletin editorial

Post by Nanaimo Commons.

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A few famous folks, 45 years ago today, anticipated that the future would be about pedestrians, cross walks, streets @jen_keesmaat

A few famous folks, 45 years ago today, anticipated that the future would be about pedestrians, cross walks, streets: pic.twitter.com/SdSNzGKaCO

— jennifer keesmaat (@jen_keesmaat) August 9, 2014

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Proposed Hilton Hotel To Council Monday — Includes "Lease" of Adjacent Waterfront Park

Details of rezoning application, City "lane" closure, acquisition and consolidation, from the City Council meeting agenda for Monday August 11, 2014 here.  35 storeys from the waterfront promenade, 303 room hotel with 59 parking spaces on site.

Read the post and the comments at: Gord Fuller Municipally (A)MUSING

From Better! Cities & Towns Online — Shared-Space Waterfront for Washington DC

A 12-block waterfront redevelopment broke ground in Washington DC that extensively uses the concept of "share-space" streets, according to Payton Chung of Streetsblog. At 27-acres, The Wharf is designed to include 560 dwellings plus a couple million square feet of office, retail, hotel space, a concert hall, museum, and maritime education center, and a marina. About 60 percent of the site will be public space — including the streets, which are designed as public spaces, although cars and trucks will have access to most. Read more: New shared-space waterfront for DC | Better! Cities & Towns Online

From The Globe and Mail — Shored Up: How Toronto's Waterfront Redevelopment is Going Right

On Unwin Avenue in Toronto’s port lands, the ground looks like a blank canvas: it’s largely a scrubland of asphalt and sumacs, punctuated by a power plant. The skyline of downtown shimmers like a mirage, but it’s just four kilometres away.

From here, it’s clear why governments see this area of the waterfront as ripe for development, and why the public agency Waterfront Toronto was created in 2001 to make that happen. But as the agency’s CEO John Campbell explains, it’s not as simple as it looks. “All the land south of Front Street is landfill,” said Mr. Campbell in an interview this week. “It’s all brownfield” – former industrial land, often contaminated – Read more: ”Shored up: How Toronto's waterfront redevelopment is going right - The Globe and Mail