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Grandview Calvary Baptist

CBWC - Mar7-18

Co:Here affordable, community oriented housing is ready

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Co:Here affordable, community oriented housing is ready! By Zoe Ducklow Canadian Baptists of Western Canada After many years of working towards it, Grandview Calvary Baptist Church’s vision of supportive community-based housing has now come to life. Co:Here is a 26-unit apartment building, deliberately designed to foster community among residents. Each unit is self contained, with full kitchens, bathrooms and storage. And there’s a lot of common space, which is an intentional part of Co:Here’s design….

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ChurchforVancouver - Feb15-18

Co:Here Housing Community all set to welcome new residents

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Co:Here Housing Community all set to welcome new residents By Flyn Ritchie Church for Vancouver The Co:Here Housing Community has been dedicated, celebrated and blessed. The only thing left now is to wait for final approval for 34 residents to move in to the brand new building at the corner of 1st and Victoria in east Vancouver – and that should happen any day now. During both its February 11 services, members of Grandview Calvary…

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SurreyLeader - Oct13-17

Community groups come together to support Surrey’s most vulnerable

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Community groups come together to support Surrey’s most vulnerable By Aaron Hinks Surrey Now-Leader Government, social workers, faith groups discuss poverty at housing workshop – Vancouver’s Grandview Calvary Baptist Church pastor Tim Dickau told the group how his church, over 15 years, was able to use its parking lot for a four-storey social housing complex, which they labelled ‘Co: Here Housing Community.’ The church is a month away from finishing the $12-million project, which includes…

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Victoria Drive Projects Fit Well with Grandview Woodland Plan

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Flyn Ritchie, Church for Vancouver: A couple of years ago, neighbours reacted vigorously against the city’s Grandview-Woodland Community Plan which, in their view, involved too little consultation and proposed too much density and too many high buildings, especially near the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station.

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