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firebird79_00 06-09-2012 12:59 PM

Save Varsity Ridge Bowling Petition
 
If you can spare a minute too sign, please do. The same people that stopped the skytrain station and Walmart from going in down in Kits are also behind stopping the development of new condos here.

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/996/1...ridge-bowling/

Meowjin 06-09-2012 01:19 PM

rich westenders with nothing to do

Gridlock 06-09-2012 01:45 PM

Just a question, but does anyone really bowl anymore?

Because I'm going to tell you, those lanes are worth far more as a 1 bed, than as a place for seniors to bowl.

Have the owners of the alley weighed in?

StylinRed 06-09-2012 02:47 PM

all the bowling alleys I've driven by seem to be rather active so I imagine lots of ppl still bowl

they should build apartments on top of the alley :thumbs:

Fappin 06-09-2012 02:52 PM

Cosmic bowling is still fairly busy

Presto 06-09-2012 02:56 PM

If it's 5 pin, I'll demolish it myself. 10 pin FTW.

trollface 06-09-2012 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Presto (Post 7942565)
If it's 5 pin, I'll demolish it myself. 10 pin FTW.

With a wrecking ball pained to look like a bowling ball?

ws6ta 06-09-2012 04:24 PM

:seriously:

why would one care to stop a bowling alley from being demolished? can't find some where else to go? i hate when idiots get in the way of projects for useless bullshit like a bowling alley

ilvtofu 06-09-2012 04:27 PM

Varsity ridge is a terrible place to bowl anyways and so many businesses that open at the ridge complex have closed down except for mcdonald's and the crappy chinese food place for white people.

willcls 06-09-2012 06:30 PM

You mention that the same people behind stopping skytrain and walmart from being developed/opened are behind this petition. It would appear that they do not care for saving bowling but are only concerned about their property values. There is demand for affordable housing in the area,let them develop and stop whining.

AAnthony 06-09-2012 06:39 PM

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Gridlock 06-09-2012 06:45 PM

Vancouver has succeeded in leveling, well, pretty much everything in the name of condos and now, people are ready to stop because of a bowling alley?

Tapioca 06-09-2012 07:18 PM

I would support this if it wasn't associated with the anti-Skytrain crowd.

tiger_handheld 06-09-2012 08:44 PM

Anyone know if the new condos are affordable housing or just regular condo's?

I'm not from the area, so I have not voted!

Yodamaster 06-09-2012 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ws6ta (Post 7942621)
:seriously:

why would one care to stop a bowling alley from being demolished? can't find some where else to go? i hate when idiots get in the way of projects for useless bullshit like a bowling alley

We don't need more people in Vancouver, we need more jobs.

iEatClams 06-09-2012 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willcls (Post 7942722)
You mention that the same people behind stopping skytrain and walmart from being developed/opened are behind this petition. It would appear that they do not care for saving bowling but are only concerned about their property values. There is demand for affordable housing in the area,let them develop and stop whining.

+ 1

not just that, but also I think there will still be commercial retail shopping on the bottom floors like for most developments. Chances are mcdonalds will still be there once it's completed (similar to the mcdonalds on main street). This helps the city out by increasing their tax base as well. The annual property tax from the 50 or so condos plus the retail units outweighs the bowling alley.

ntan 06-09-2012 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tiger_handheld (Post 7942835)
Anyone know if the new condos are affordable housing or just regular condo's?

I'm not from the area, so I have not voted!

Though I'm not familiar with the condo project, I doubt it'll be affordable, being centralized in the Arbutus area.

FOB Mainlander 06-09-2012 11:09 PM

OP is worried on his $3 million+ market value house has to be neighbor to some less than $1 million condo...
Good try but I don't see any reason to keep that bowling place.

Autorice 06-09-2012 11:22 PM

even whole foods didn't last over there, don't know why varsity ridge continues to stay.

let the developers do what they want with their land. if you don't like them developing on it, buy it and do what you want.

same goes with the native indians below arthur laing bridge and the mega mall being proposed by the ferry terminal.

Yodamaster 06-09-2012 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FOB Mainlander (Post 7942957)
OP is worried on his $3 million+ market value house has to be neighbor to some less than $1 million condo...
Good try but I don't see any reason to keep that bowling place.

I'm going to verbally fail you on that one, has the OP told you what his situation really is? Do you even know?

Because if you don't, and you still find the nerve to bitch about the 3 million dollar house that he might not have, you're just another judge a book by it's cover joke.

firebird79_00 06-10-2012 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FOB Mainlander (Post 7942957)
OP is worried on his $3 million+ market value house has to be neighbor to some less than $1 million condo...
Good try but I don't see any reason to keep that bowling place.

I dont live in that area, thats not why im trying to get a few signatures. Regardless of how it goes i will have at least tried. I grew up around that bowling alley, i worked there during multiple summers and met tons of awesome people. Working there i was amazed at how many people it brought together regardless of age. Its something thats affordable to do to kill some time, which is getting harder and harder to find.

jackmeister 06-10-2012 08:55 AM

It's nimby bullshit like this that makes Vancouver unattractive.

bloodmack 06-10-2012 08:59 AM

bowling.. 1 of 3 things to do in abbotsford besides smoke weed.

FOB Mainlander 06-10-2012 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yodamaster (Post 7942977)
I'm going to verbally fail you on that one, has the OP told you what his situation really is? Do you even know?

Because if you don't, and you still find the nerve to bitch about the 3 million dollar house that he might not have, you're just another judge a book by it's cover joke.

Why verbally fail when you can hit the false button? :failed: Funny how somebody like you is so serious on the internet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by firebird79_00 (Post 7943091)
I dont live in that area, thats not why im trying to get a few signatures. Regardless of how it goes i will have at least tried. I grew up around that bowling alley, i worked there during multiple summers and met tons of awesome people. Working there i was amazed at how many people it brought together regardless of age. Its something thats affordable to do to kill some time, which is getting harder and harder to find.

Move forward man! I understand you have some good memory there but that is not enough to get people to support you. The land value is worth more than your memory.

MG1 06-10-2012 09:58 PM

Varsity Ridge Bowling = don't care.

Grandview Bowling Lanes = I give a damn. East End Rules!!!!

Grandview Lanes Bowling Centre in Vancouver, BC


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