Alex Maiassi

Wilson and the council worked with the developer on a new plan.

Instead of a few mid-rise apartment buildings, they would build skyscrapers, 11 of them.

The tallest would be about 60 stories.

This would be a mega project that would add around 6,000 new apartments to the city.

Most of them would be available to anyone in the public.

They'd be luxury units with market rate rents.

But there would also be some subsidized apartments for members of the Squamish nation.

The Squamish were about to permanently make over the city skyline.

And that is when the nasty letters started coming in.

The rest of that story is after the break.

Oh!

the closest I've ever been to a forklift.

Last month, we went to visit the construction site.

They also have these orange accents.

They've got orange balconies and giant orange panels of metalwork that kind of look like wishbones.

Jacob says this shape is called a trigon.

You see it in all kinds of Squamish artwork.

What floor are we going to?

38?

The doors open to an active construction site.