Fifteen construction cranes now tower over the seven-block section of southeast False Creek that will be home for 3,000 athletes and officials during the 2010 Games, and then become a fully contained residential neighbourhood afterwards called Millennium Water.

Excavation of the site has now been completed with foundation work underway on all 16 of the project's residential buildings. Some 300 construction workers have started on six buildings with two more set to begin construction this month.

Millennium Water is being designed by renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson in collaboration with Nick Milkovich Architects, Gomberoff Bell Lyon Architects, Lawrence Doyle Young & Wright Architects, Merrick Architecture and Walter Francl Architect Inc.

At its peak, the Millennium Water project will employ 1,500 people. Work started in this spring and is on schedule to be complete by the fall of 2009.

 

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