Concord Pacific Place is "

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's biggest master-planned urban community" and is projected to be North America's largest in terms of occupants and area when completed. It is located in

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, on the north shore of

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. The area was formerly the

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of the

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, and was redeveloped into the main site of the 1986 World Exposition. In 1988, it was purchased by Concord Pacific Developments with investors led by

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. It was subsequently expanded during Vancouver's recurrent housing booms of the 1990s and 2000s, brought about by greater port traffic and general economic activity, waves of Asian immigration, and the

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. Estimates of the total size of the finished development range from a "'' 2 billion... 200 acre site comprises approximately 8,000 units of accommodation''" to a "'' 4 billion ite.. ome tomore than 20,000 people on over 200 acres''" to "''about 50 buildings with 10,000 homes''".financialpost.com
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