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Top 100 Purdy’s COO Peter Higgins

list manufacturers in and other local chocolate-
makers seeking competitive
Inside
Metro Vancouver sweet spot in growing sector
Washington film focus
State seeking to slow flow of production
business to B.C. News, page 3
See Top 100, 23-28
Bio-age blooming for
forestry sector
B.C. lumber companies see revenue streams
in new range of products News, page 6

Liberal leadership race

On investment initiatives, leadership traits
and holidays in February News, page 7

SECTION Cascadian capital connections

How cleantech can create a
world-class talent pool in B.C. Finance, page 8

The case for more aerospace

Rolling development dice

Industry jobs to double in B.C. and
elsewhere in Canada Technology, page 10

Ferry stories and football shots

Seaspan likes ruling in freight rate fight with BC
Ferries; MSL business goals News, page 18

Off to court
Who’s being sued Trouble, pages 29- 30
gymnasium and private rooms where
>Controversial $450 Canucks players could take pre-game naps. Guaranteed annual incomes;
million casino proposal “We’re saying we’d like to build a prac- gambling losses; foreign worker woes
tice facility because it will help the team,” Letters, Ladner, Meggs Op/ed, page 36
overshadowing major Aquilini told BIV in January. “The city seems
A chat with BCBC’s new boss
core building projects to be supportive of that. It’ll be a fantastic
Greg D’Avignon knows he has big shoes to fill at
facility. Most National Hockey League teams
the Business Council of BC Profile, page 39
have it.
>City council could He added that he’s working through the SPECIAL REPORTS
soon approve 10 towers process to secure approvals for the project.
Surrey City: BIV
False Creek Residents Association
in Vancouver’s northeast (FCRA) spokesman Sean Bickerton sup-
quarterly report
Surrey Board of Trade CEO
False Creek area ports Aquilini’s proposal.
Anita Huberman on city
“The difference in approach between
business partnerships 11-14
By Glen Korstrom Aquilini-CMP and the one that Concord
employs is an object lesson in how develop- Small business;

T he controversy over whether the City of

Vancouver should approve a $450 million
mega-casino in northeast False Creek is over-
Aquilini Group principal Francesco Aquilini: four
False Creek towers proposed
ers could work collaboratively with the
community and how they can end up in an
outright war with the local community,”
big Liberal ideas
16-17

Top 100 manufacturers

shadowing other major development plans for
the area.
Potential development includes:
•two Concord Pacific towers on the west side
of the Cambie Bridge (5b West: see map, page 4)
with a total of 543 units;
•two Concord Pacific towers on the east side
of the Cambie Bridge (5b East) with a total of
420 units;
•three Aquilini Group towers with a total of 463
residential units and 187,500 square feet of new
office space (7a);
•a fourth Aquilini Group tower that would be
a rental building and is currently not supported
by city staff (also on 7a); and
•two Paragon Gaming Corp. hotel towers ad-
joining the casino with a total of 647 suites (10).
Aquilini Group principal Francesco Bickerton said.
in Metro
Aquilini told Business in Vancouver Febru- The FCRA has an appeal with the Prop- list
Vancouver 25, 26,27, 28
ary 14 that he wants to build his proposed erty Assessment Appeal Board of British
towers regardless of whether Paragon Gam- Columbia because its members believe BC Subscriber details
ing’s casino gets civic approval. Assessment’s $400,000 assessed value for the
In exchange for his towers’ approval, Concord Pacific property (Lot 9) is far too low
Aquilini is proposing to partner with Can- see Concord, 4
adian Metropolitan Properties (CMP)
to build a $50 million practice facility for
the Vancouver Canucks on land that is
More casino controversy
currently the Plaza of Nations (6b) and owned •Upset over casino input
by CMP. City consultation process under fire – again page 4
That complex would be available for com-
•Edgewater’s Games finish
munity use most of the time and would in- Business in Vancouver Issue 1113
Bob Mackin: Olympics a bust for casino page 18
clude an arena the same size as the one at
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Aquilini’s nearby Rogers Arena. It would •Peter Ladner on Paragon plan PM40069240 R8876
also include a sports science centre, large Too many casino questions without answers page 36 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION
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