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		<title>Insertion Points &#8211; Gair Williamson Architects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insertion Points &#8211; Gair Williamson Architects
cdnarchitect.com
Tevor Boddy
August 2009
A small architecture firm is well-known for nimbly grafting and inserting new architectural elements into the existing urban fabric of Vancouver.
 
Clients turn architects from dreamers into schemers. Williamson has had a close and positive relationship with Salient Development, which is headed by the successful Robert Fung (son [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/09/17/insertion-points-gair-williamson-architects/</link>
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		<title>Indie style finds home in Gastown’s fashion district</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indie style finds home in Gastown’s fashion district
Straight.com
September 3. 2009
Patty Jones 
 
In Gastown’s thriving fashion district, upstart boutiques and ateliers are offering something different by design.
 
Indie fashion is happening, right this very minute, in Gastown. In the window of the new Dickensian-chic boutique Gentille Alouette at 227 Carrall Street, Vancouver Community College fashion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/09/03/indie-style-finds-home-gastown%e2%80%99s-fashion-district/</link>
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		<title>The Woodward&#8217;s Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Woodward&#8217;s Experiment
Vancouver Magazine
September 1, 2009
Michael Harris 
Who says East is East, West is West, and never the twain shall meet?
From his book-crammed office on the sixth floor of the Dominion Building on Hastings, Jim Green has monitored the reinvention of Woodward’s. If Woodward’s is anyone’s baby, it’s his. Beginning in 1985 (five years before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/09/01/woodwards-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Province: Robert Fung &#8211; What do B.C. people like to do with their Sundays?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do B.C. people like to do with their Sundays?
Vancouver Province
August 30, 2009
  
 
 
 
 

Robert Fung is a Vancouver real-estate developer best known for restoring the city&#8217;s heritage buildings and redeveloping them on the inside into new condo developments.
As president and founder of the Salient Group, Fung has led several heritage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/08/31/vancouver-province-robert-fung-b-c-people-sundays/</link>
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		<title>Living: Our Tribe: Diana Becker</title>
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Diana Becker and her partner Stella the greyhound live in the Terminus.
Diana was formerly an Interior Designer. Her first job was actually with George Lee at Design 21, 21 Water Street in Gastown, just across the street from Terminus where Koolhaus now resides. She still maintains a design firm and occasionally works for her son [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/07/02/living-our-tribe-diana-becker/</link>
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		<title>Community: Gastown Farmers Market</title>
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You may have heard that a farmers market has been approved for August and September in Gastown as part of the City&#8217;s new &#8220;Summer Spaces&#8221; initiative. The Vancouver’s Farmers Markets are very excited to announce that we will be partnering with the Gastown Business Improvement Society to bring a farmers market to Gastown Sundays in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/07/02/community-gastown-farmers-market/</link>
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		<title>Pamela Masik &#8220;The Forgotten&#8221; Unveils &#8216;Mona&#8217; at terminus</title>
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Pamela Masik stands in front of &#8216;Mona&#8217;, the first of 69 paintings.
Photo: Kristen Thompson/Metro Vancouver
The first painting in artist Pamela Masik’s series The Forgotten (www.theforgotten.ca) was unveiled at The Salient Group’s terminus June 23rd at a fundraising event to benefit a new arts program for women at the Union Gospel Mission in the Downtown Eastside. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/06/26/pamela-masik-the-forgotten-unveils-mona-at-terminus/</link>
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		<title>Things to do: Jazz Festival this weekend, Gastown and beyond</title>
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The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is a long celebrated event in Vancouver. One not to miss. It&#8217;s BC&#8217;s largest music festival boasting over 400 concerts at 40 venues – no matter what your taste is in music, there&#8217;s something in the program for you. And, it all starts this Friday, June 26th and runs through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/06/24/things-to-do-jazz-festival-this-weekend-gastown-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Sun: P+A Furniture: Breaking new ground in providing decision-making sales support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living Green &#8211; Breaking new ground in providing decision-making sales support
Shelley Penner says merchants need to provide more in-store information and she is practising what she preaches in her new shop
Vancouver Sun
by Kim Davis
June 13, 2009 
Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if there was a &#8220;savvy shopper&#8221; smartphone application: an app that allowed a person considering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/06/20/vancouver-sun-pa-furniture-breaking-new-ground-in-providing-decision-making-sales-support/</link>
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		<title>Flack Block: Vancouver History and Business Collaboration tips come together at Octopus Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Rowlands of Octopus Strategies, one of the tenants at the Flack Block, wrote an interesting piece for their e-newsletter, and it was brought to our attention. Mike shares a bit of Flack Block&#8217;s Vancouver&#8217;s history, and combines it with some interesting business tips about how collaboration might just be the answer in today&#8217;s economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/2009/06/18/flack-block-vancouver-history-and-business-collaboration-tips-come-together-at-octopus-strategies/</link>
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