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Amazon may rent the old post office in downtown Vancouver

Published on: April 17, 2018 | Last Updated: April 17, 2018 11:32 AM PDT

Amazon is looking at renting the old post office in downtown Vancouver.

Real-estate sources say the online retail giant wants to add a million square feet of office and commercial space downtown, part of an expansion that’ll see the company double its Vancouver workforce to 2,000 people by 2020.

Amazon didn’t respond to requests for comment, and leasing agent Tony Astles of Bentall Kennedy said “any discussions we do or don’t have with tenants are confidential, sorry.”

The old post office is a mammoth 686,000-square-feet structure that occupies an entire block between Georgia, Dunsmuir, Homer and Hamilton streets.

A proposed rezoning of the post office site was submitted to the city in November 2016 that would have seen three towers built on top of the existing seven-storey building. The design included a 17-storey office tower and 18- and 20-storey residential towers. The proposal was revised and resubmitted in May 2017 with three “slimmer” towers.

But a spokesperson for the City of Vancouver said “the applicant for the rezoning of the old post-office site has requested that the rezoning application be put on hold while they review their options for the site.”
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