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Vancouver Name Used to Sell Developments in China

Vancouver Canada News Vancouver Name Used to Sell Developments in China
May 29, 2012
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We all know that developers in Vancouver (and Richmond) market a lot of their condos to residents in China. Furthermore, it’s no mystery that the Chinese hold Vancouver in high regard. They are more aware of our pacific metropolis than of Toronto, the nations largest city. Hence, they use the Vancouver name on many residential developments. Here is a list compiled by the great people at ssp.com.
Vancouver Forest: This can be found in Beijing and reminds me of some of the homes you’ll see in Vancouver’s west side.

Vancouver International Place in Anyang, Henan.

Vancouver Times Square  in Zhengzhou, Henan. Wouldn’t the Sears building look a lot better if it looked like this?

Vancouver 1792 in Xiangfan, Hubei

Vancouver Gardens in Qingdao, Shandong is reminiscent of some of the crappy architecture found in the West End.

Vancouver Square in Chengdu, Sichuan (Szechuan). Another export from our beautiful West End?

Vancouver South Gardens in Chengdu, Sichuan

Taichung Vancouver Mansions in Taichung. This for some reason reminds of Richmond townhome complexes.

Vancouver City in Hefei, Anhui

Vancouver Villas  again in Zhengzhou, Henan

Vancouver International Gardens in Lianyungang, Jiangsu. Kind of reminds of the Olympic village with its narrow streets.

Vancouver Exclusive Area in Suzhou, Jiangsu

The Vancouver in Taipei

Sky Ocean City in Beijing is labelled as a Vancouver-styled international community in cooperation with the City of Vancouver.

Vancouver City in Huaibei, Anhui

They even created their own version of “Robson Street” and the Gastown Steam Clock.

The Gastown Steam Clock in China

Robson Street in China

Source: Kwik-E-Mart

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  • Clarence

    They really do love Vancouver

  • Yawnage to the max

    we’re famous! ;)

  • Van4Canadians

    well Vancouver we had a nice run, I’m off to Toronto, the Asians can have you.  I’ll be back when they push housing prices way past affordable limits and you become a ghost town… then I might buy place :-P

  • Vancouverrite

    & that’s why Vancouver is going to hell. The people are getting ruder & think they’re entitled to everything. I am born & raised here & the inflation is going to bite us in the ass!

  • fan of george AND james

    you just flagrantly stole this from the skyscraperpage forum and a user’s original content.  good job.

  • Andrew Chobaniuk

    “Imitation is the best form a flattery”, wonder how long until we see landmark inspired homages, The spires of  BC Place, the sails of Canada Place (our Sydney Opera House), perhaps a Lion’s Gate?

  • roclafamilia

    Taipei and Taichung in Taiwan ain’t part of China. Taiwan is a country by itself.

  • Steven

    It’s sourced. What more do you want? You forummers on there disgust me. I was on there recently and was basically bullied out of there for having a difference of opinion. You’re just glorified trolls.

  • Marisol

    See the source? Also the mention in the intro paragraph? 

  • Steven

    Are they not part of the Republic of China though?

  • Tj Arneil

    How is it exactly sourced? All it says is “ssp.com.” It’s hardly clear. Do it properly by putting the link to where you got all this, and putting quotes around all the text you copied and pasted straight out of the forum.

  • Steven

    He paid homage to Apu at the bottom with a link to the site. C’mon son. 

  • WordPolice

    This is a great site but I have to say that the quality of writing needs to improve. Surely, you could afford a proper editor to go through your posts and articles? I see a lot of grammatical mistakes and its too bad, because such things compromise the professional and sleek image of your website. There are a lot of journalists, writers, editors and proofreaders out there who would love to help you, I’m sure. It’s worth pursuing, guys!

  • Kwik-E-Mart

    It is not my intention to cause a political ruckus when I began researching into the Vancouver craze on the other side of the Pacific.  Regrettably I was not able to change the the thread title in time to highlight the interest in Vancouver by two regions.

    Nonetheless, Vancouver’s positive reputation (notably clean air and green lifestyle) presents opportunities for local businesses, not just real estate, to enter the Chinese market.

  • Guest

    we can’t do anything to prevent overseas real estate developers from slapping the :”Vancouver” name on a shoddy project, but at least we can prevent these types of bland projects from appearing in our city.

  • Tj Arneil

    That tiny little thing?

  • rondee123

    Interesting how the market has also shifted – and Toronto is actually now getting a lot more attention, and prices are rising… so good luck with that

  • rondee123

    wow – really is that ever racist. Especially since Vancouver is such an ANCIENT CITY with so much heritage – NOT! So saying that you were born and raised here doesn’t hold much weight… ( I was as well by the way – but whatever)

  • Van4Canadians

    Honesty does not equate to racism, especially when it is factual.  Vancouver is going to the dogs and unless this province takes a firm stand against foreign estate ownership it will go the pricing way of New York… just with far less diversity… and much less class.

  • Amy

    Fan of george AND james:

    For the record, when doing any type of writing where it’s not your original, the “proper” way of putting your source is at the bottom of the page.
    And for the racist comments… Seriously people? We should be grateful that any where in the world wants to be like us. It means we have a WONDERFUL city. I think it’s quite cool to see these pictures! thanks for posting, I probably would have never known (it’s a cool tidbit :) ) 

  • B. Le

    Really?

    The Chinese sound-alike for the Dutch name Vancouver is Wengehua  [ When ge wha ]
    Or 溫
    哥
    華
    Warm Friendly Place.

    How were you looking?   It has real meaning other than  an attempt at sound like
    YinGuo (England nation) , MeiGuo (America nation), JiaNaDa (Canada),
    XiBanYa (Espana)

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