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Grant, whose firm is develop- ing two big rental projects at Boundary and Hastings, along with two others near VCC-Clark station. "The need for rental residential is really important down there." And the residents of Strath- cona are getting worried. The T E R M S + C ON DI T ION S Our contribution to the language of business and beyond 20 BCBUSINESS MARCH/APRIL 2022 QUADREAL PROPERTY GROUP AND HUNGERFORD PROPERTIES (TOP); ISTOCK ( the informer ) arrival of St. Paul's and thou- sands of health-care workers looking for a place to live will put even more pressure on that small area of historic homes, social housing, artist studios and the odd cheap apartment building. It was assumed for a while that the buildout of Con- cord Pacific's last big swath of land at Northeast False Creek would absorb some of that. But the post–Vision Vancouver city council has gone silent on taking down the viaducts, so there's zero certainty about when that might happen. The new apartment propos- al by Strand, double the height allowed in the current False Creek Flats plan, bothers some in Strathcona. People aren't totally negative about the new arrivals, says residents' associa- tion representative Katie Lewis. They're hoping the hospital and what happens around it will bring in new, desperately needed services. "But it's a mixed bag," Lewis says. "Rental housing is already so limited. And there's a huge concern about price inflation." And at the moment, it's not clear what the City might put in place to help. • yacht lead•er boss who never shuts up about their boat west ke•low•na ca•leb after promising he can do the job, this elusive drywaller ghosts you on Craigslist pest prac•tices customer surveys you get after you buy, do or eat anything con•voy•eurs those of us unable to stop watching the trucker protests non-fun•gi•ble tok•ing that cannabis-fuelled epiphany you just can't recall THE BIG PICTURE A map of False Creek Flats from a brochure for the Archetype project