Talk:Dockside Green

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Proposed move

It has been proposed at The Canadian Wikipedian's Notice Board that this article be moved/merged to a neighbourhood article. I disagree that this is necessary, I think it just needs someone to follow the sources and add content to the article.

(note: I have not assessed these sources for reliability)

Times Colonist article - "Dockside Green's biomass gasification plant in Vic West saw the Ocean Pointe Resort sign on last year."
Times Colonist article "Nearby, development of the mixed-use Dockside Green project has paused while a new team reviews the plans."
Daily Commercial News"The Dockside Green, a project in Victoria B.C. was named the best over-all brownfield project of the year.Dockside Green is an 11.6-acre brownfield adjoining the harbour in the heart of Victoria.The objective of the redevelopment is to create economic opportunities while promoting environmental responsibility. The plan is for a mixed-use community with industrial, retail and residential components.The project also walked away with the Brownie Award for being green and showing best technological innovations including a wood-waste energy system."
Daily Commercial News"Westeinde related his company’s plans to develop Dockside Green in Victoria, B.C. Vacant and rundown for nearly two decades, the downtown waterfront site is looking to undergo an intense greening. The plan is to treat and re-use stormwater on site, to convert old industrial buildings into artist’s studios and small businesses, and to offer biodiesel-based car-sharing programs and easy pedestrian access. The developer is seeking LEED Canada Platinum, the standard’s highest possible rating."
Victoria to go ahead with massive $300M development project - Daily Commercial News
Dockside Green's heating project draws applause (TC)
Dockside Green fast-tracking affordable units (TC)
Dockside Green featured on TV (TC)
'Green' research grant flows to Dockside job (TC)
Dockside Green's developer cries foul over rising city costs (TC)
Dockside Green gets greener with new heating plan (TC)
Dockside Green to track carbon footprint
VICTORIA: Green credentials take centre stage (G&M)
Victoria project honoured as 'brilliant development' (TC)
Victoria’s Dockside Green balances rising costs
Dockside looks for break from city
Dockside Green going for platinum LEED certification
Taking the lead in water management
Former CEO accuses Vancity of firing him over affordable housing
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Daily Commercial News
Journal of Commerce"Meanwhile, the $500-million Dockside Green which has attracted worldwide attention has run into a speed bump in the form of rising development cost charges which threatens to add $1.7 million in costs over the next eight years to project partners Windmill Development Group and Vancity."...
Times Colonist"The fee hikes took Dockside Green developers by surprise and in December they asked city council to waive $2.1 million worth of fees anticipated under the new fee schedule. They argued that they should get some credit for being an environmentally friendly project and that they didn't know when negotiating the purchase of the land from the city that the city was planning the fee hike."

(more later) - DigitalC (talk) 23:52, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd agree that this development does sound like it has the potential to be genuinely notable if properly sourced. It certainly needs sourcing and formatting improvements, though, and the "Neighbourhoods in Victoria, British Columbia" category is wrong — Category:Buildings and structures in Victoria, British Columbia would appear to be the more appropriate place for it. If it were to be merged, though, as near as I can tell from looking it up on Google Maps it's just generic Downtown Victoria, not any special neighbourhood that I can identify. Bearcat (talk) 01:18, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More sources

Times Colonist

Victoria, in partnership with Dockside Green Ltd., and the Capital Regional District were each winners of $50,000 in the province's LiveSmart B.C. Green Cities Awards.

Victoria and Dockside Green were selected because of the community participatory process, annual sustainability reporting, development of biomass gasification system for heat and hot water and reuse of waste water for toilet flushing.

Dockside seeks height exemption (TC)
TC "Perhaps most impressive project is Dockside Green, a 1,000-unit residential complex on 37 acres next to Victoria's Upper Harbour. The development uses recycled or renewable materials, is designed to capture, treat and reuse about 245 million litres of water on-site, and is to generate enough waste wood biogas heat to supply a nearby hotel."
Lawyer gets first Dockside office lease (TC)
TC"A public relations company handling Dockside Green's account calculates that in 2007 alone the project garnered close to $900,000 worth of media exposure in publications and productions as varied as Natural Life, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Wired Magazine and the Globe and Mail."
So what makes Dockside so green?
Victoria mulls request to enlarge Dockside Green
Waterfront wasteland transformed in Victoria - Dockside Green attracts international visitors (Vancouver Sun)
Dockside Green honoured for LEED Platinum status
Dockside Green quite tall enough
Greenprint for the homes of the future - A green dream is becoming reality for 2,500 residents of Dockside Green, a super eco-friendly development in Victoria that is already being hailed as a design icon (G&M)
TC - "The fee hikes took Dockside Green developers by surprise and in December they asked city council to waive $2.1 million worth of fees anticipated under the new fee schedule. They argued that they should get some credit for being an environmentally friendly project and that they didn't know when negotiating the purchase of the land from the city that the city was planning the fee hike."
TC "Dockside Green has won the Excellence in Urban Sustainability Award from the GLOBE Foundation as part of its awards for environmental excellence at the GLOBE international conference in Vancouver."
Georgia Strait - "The Dockside Green development in Victoria is one of only two Canadian sites to make the Clinton Climate Initiative’s recently released list of 16 “climate-positive developments” around the world."
CBC - "Busby Perkins + Will Architects of Vancouver won a Green Architecture Award for Dockside Green, a Victoria, B.C. redevelopment that involves residential, commercial and other buildings."
Journal of Commerce - "Saying the pace of construction is too slow and it’s time to spread his build-it-green philosophy internationally, the frontman behind Victoria’s Dockside Green has sold his quarter share in the $650-million residential/commercial/light industrial project.", "One third complete since construction started in 2005, Dockside Green sits on six hectares of former industrial land on Victoria’s Inner Harbour."

DigitalC (talk) 14:52, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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