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Originally Posted by osirisboy
Some former stations don’t even start remediation for many years after closing, like the one on Broadway. I don’t think anything has happened in 5 years
Also, I thought that you could truck the contaminated soil to a place in Alberta and the cost is around 100,000 for a typical site. So seems crazy to let a site sit for decades. Too bad the province doesn’t have something to help expedite it
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It's not clear exactly when 1398 W Broadway was sold, but it was one of five Esso gas stations sold by 7-11 by 2018. They sold off four more in 2018, including 1795 W Broadway, the Esso station that's still open (for now) at Burrard.
It was closed in 2021. It's possible there's remediation taking place, because some of the methods are less obvious than others. It's equally possible that there's no significant contamination, but it wasn't worth carrying on running the operation, with another offering the same brand of gasoline in the same ownership only 4 blocks away. Gasoline sales volumes in BC fell from a peak in 2017 to significantly less in 2020, (due to covid, no doubt), so some gas stations were reported to be losing money on gas sales).
The owner of both Broadway gas stations has deep pockets, and often leaves development sites inactive for many years. Concord Pacific own both
1368-98 W Broadway and
1795 W Broadway, and unlike their various False Creek sites, the Molson's Brewery, St Paul's Hospital and the Westin Bayshore they have indicated they are actively pursuing rezonings on the West Broadway gas station sites. (They were rumoured to have bought the last gas station Downtown, at Davie and Burrard, as well).
(Trucking contaminated soil to Alberta for disposal cost over $1,000 per cubic metre from BC in 2015, so there would have to be very little material to only cost $100,000).
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