Comments on: Yaletownification?

By: Gastronome

Gastronome — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:45:14 +0000

Actually Frances, Fiction didn’t fail, but was sold (from what i understand at quite a high price) to the new owners so that the owner could pursue a new hotel project.

Isn’t it funny that the critics of these types of things are the ones who wont spend a dime supporting the local businesses who invest in their community, and then bemoan the loss of their ‘community’ joints to larger business interests.

You keep making the hippie bed, you’ll have to keep smelling like hemp my dear frances. Go back to the naam and eat your pre-packaged ‘vegan’ burgers. Yeah. . that’s great for the environment.

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By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:17:34 +0000

YUCK! Hate the name “the New Bohemian” – hopefully they’ll fail just like Fiction did – but quicker. Do they even know what “bohemian” means? I really don’t want yuppification in this part of Kits but fear that our pro-development municipal and provincial governments will continue to trod over our rights. I pray we never become a 2nd Yaletown but it is pretty likely. Kind of how Kits was the cool, hippie/artist area, then Commercial, then Main and now Kits is becoming more high end, I guess it will spread like a disease to Commercial and Main eventually.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:55:01 +0000

Well if the attitude is unpretentious, it won’t be like Yaletown at all. To be truly Kits, the service will have to be utterly indifferent (think Noodle Box). I certainly hope Yaletownification isn’t happening, as Yaletown is the perfectly controlled existence. Walk here, stand there, play there, park there. Every area in Yaletown seems to fit one kind of activity, to the exclusion of all others.

There’s no sense of the organic bumps and dips that give the rest of the city a lot of its character in Yaletown, which is so sterile to the point it sometimes feels like a ghost town.