[ed. note: I've never been to Vancouver, but I have a free ticket that I can't wait to use to get there. I booked it this year in the hopes I can use it before the summer comes next year.]
Preening for the Olympics, Vancouver is Building Up
An excerpt:
There has been a lot of construction going on in Vancouver in preparation for the Games — and beyond. After the Winter Games, the 16-building Olympic Village, which will house about 2,800 athletes, is to be converted into a 730-unit luxury condominium complex called Millennium Water. About half the units have already been sold, Mr. Rennie said.
A two-bedroom, 1,113-square-foot condo on the fourth floor of a Millennium Water building on Ontario Street was listed last month for 855,900 Canadian dollars ($673,937 at 1.27 Canadian dollars to the U.S. dollar). Three one-bedroom units between 584 and 686 square feet in a building on West First Avenue were listed at 464,900 to 505,900 Canadian dollars. It is possible to put 10 percent down.
Although it is only 35 miles north of the border, Vancouver looks and feels different from any city in the United States or, for that matter, Canada. With its glass-and-steel towers crowding a sweeping harbor, it could be in Asia.
Asia, indeed. The carriers in Canada are building up, too, and it seems everyone is migrating to Vancouver, because customers from all around the world are goign to be setting their phones on roam as they ply the canyons of steel and glass.
Just a what, ten hour flight from Hong Kong, you can expect mobile phone use to be sky-high during the competition. If you can't get a signal in one of those hotels, what's the outcome going to be?
And it rarely snows in Vancouver, as the article mentions. Guess what that means for winter sports? They are going to be held indoors!
We've got a panel about the use of mobile devices inside of amenity buildings. I'd love for you to check it out. We are luck also to have the participation of Eric Yapp, from Rycom, and one of the most progressive Inbuilding thinkers at a carrier in Canada, Denis Stelatus, at Telus, to talk about this very kind of thinking: What needs to happen to make Inbuilding a win-win-win-win for everyone in property, carriers, and consumers, and integrators? Should be powerful stuff.
You can leave a comment or contact me for a look at the brochure, which will be published shortly. Send me your thoughts, too. Inbuilding Wireless is growing. Where will it go?
dcrets [at] iirusa [dot] com
Douglas Crets -- Director -- InBuilding Wireless Solutions, Las Vegas
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