T_R_Oglodyte
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Vancouver to become new BC capital, government moving to Vancouver Art Gallery building
This is very well played. Be sure to check the comments.ancouver will become the centre of both business and politics of British Columbia under a new scheme of historic proportions proposed by the BC NDP provincial government.
Under the new audacious plan called ‘BC’s Prosperity Leap’, the capital of the province and all of the associated functions, departments, and offices of the provincial government will be relocated from Victoria to Vancouver.
This means nearly all 14,000 bureaucrats that currently work on the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island will be working and living across the Strait of Georgia in Vancouver instead.
The full transition to the Lower Mainland could happen by 2027, with the old Vancouver Art Gallery building in downtown Vancouver converted and expanded into the new BC legislature.
Artistic rendering of the Vancouver Art Gallery redesigned as the new BC legislature. (handout)
And to provide new working space for its bureaucrats, the provincial government is already in the process of seeking between 1.5 and 2.1 million sq. ft. of office space within or near downtown Vancouver.
Fun read, though!