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Originally Posted by whatnext
It should be pretty clear to everyone from this photo that the scale of what Beadie was proposing really didn't fit into the context of the neighbourhood, particularly given its status as a National Historic Site. Whether forumers like it or not, that status isn't going to change. There's a list of National Historic Sites in BC here. Many are individual buildings, some are neighbourhoods. Can you imagine a building of the Beadie scale being plopped down in the parking lot at Fort Langley or next to the concentrator at Britannia Mines?
IMHO the best thing now is for the city to acquire the site and build the kind of housing the community wants, in a style that suits the area. |
Sure, there are condos of larger scale immediately to the right of this location. Nevermind the fact that the photo is taken from a godawful multi-storey parkade/mall which does a terrible job of fitting in with the neighbourhood and is grossly underutilised most of the time.
For reference, the entire neighbourhood is a national historic site. This includes several new condos, the International Village mall, etc. If you want to claim that this lot is historic, or the adjacent chunk of the city is; well it's not. This is basically an expansion of Chinatown's footprint.
Note that Westminster is Main, and Dupont is now Pender.
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