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Frances Bula has published a piece in The Globe on those egregious high-wattage, mega-mansion-sized billboards from PavCo that are burning the retinas of downtown residents who live within a three kilometer radius of BC Place.
Which is a bit of a problem that PavCo has so far only kinda/sort pretended to respond to.
And then there is the other matter.
Which is that the billboards are also forcing Betty Fox’s son to run for Budweiser, and worse.
While worthy as a clarion call alone, Ms. Bula’s post also has a wee nugget buried inside it that is delivered, by a spokesthingy, but instead by an assistant (to the regional?) manager.
Or some such thing:
….Kathy Delisser, the assistant general manager at BC Place, said management is trying to come up with solutions as a result of neighbourhood complaints.
But she also said that the main sign is tied to a negotiation on an “overall sponsorship and technology program” with a company she can’t name, so BC Place isn’t free to do exactly what it wants with the sign.
She said she couldn’t say how much revenue the sign generates, because that’s also a confidential part of the sponsorship program…
Imagine that.
Secret contracts with a public corporation.
Would’a thunk it?!
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