The demand for housing and affordable land is squeezing out needed industrial land, but one of B.C.’s smallest First Nations could help solve one of Metro Vancouver’s biggest land challenges.
The industrial market in Metro Vancouver is the lowest in North America, according to a review by the commercial real estate firm Avison Young, putting jobs and exports at risk in the region.
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But the Kwikwetlem band is hoping to help offset that with an 88 hectare industrial, business park at
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