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Builder Architecture Magazine features Rize Alliance

The Rolston by Rize Alliance

The Greater Vancouver edition of Builder Architecture magazine recently featured Rize Alliance, including an interview with Rize president Will Lin. The article highlights Rize’s contribution to the rehabilitation of the Yaletown area and our approach to new projects.

The feature also gives a sneak peek of Rize’s upcoming projects, which include The Rolston in downtown Vancouver and Terminal Offices, a campus-style commercial building on Terminal street.

125 years of building a City…

If you didn’t build it yourself, your home, be it single family, condominium or apartment was built by a developer. Is that a good thing?

Bob Ransford’s article in the weekend Sun, referenced below, starts to address this question within the context of Vancouver’s real estate history and culture.

I am a real estate developer and I spend a lot of time trying to explain what I do, and why I do it. This is not often not an easy task.

UBC Line Rapid Transit Study – Phase 2

Very pertinent to the discussion around density and transit for the Broadway corridor and Rize’s rezoning proposal for the corner of Kingsway and Broadway.

The rezoning proposal currently allows for two potential transit station locations and we would love to know what form the eventual fixed line might take.