September 6th, 2023 — This house in the 600 block West 28th Avenue sold recently for about $4 million and will be demolished as part of a land assembly and replaced with 12 garden homes.
Category: Vanishing Vancouver
Moving
August 1st, 2023 — Moving Henry Hudson School along Cornwall Street to Kits Beach where it will be put on a barge and taken to North Vancouver.
Senakw
March 11th, 2023 — Construction of the Senakw condo development begins on the southwest side of the Burrard Bridge.
Cedar tree gone
February 25th, 2023 — House demolished and a large cedar tree felled in the 3500 block of West 27th Avenue.
Today, yesterday
January 23rd,2023 — House in the 2700 block of West 7th Avenue being demolished this afternoon. Below is what the house looked like in the summer of last year.
The irony
November 4th, 2022 — This house in the 3500 block of West 26th Avenue was demolished today. Below is what it looked like a month ago. It will be replaced by a larger home with three suites and maybe a laneway house. The irony is that this block was recently rezoned for six story apartments so the new house will certainly be demolished again, possibly in less than a decade.
Flattened
March 27th, 2016 — Pine Street at 6th Avenue.
Gone in a day
September 27th, 2022 — This house in the 3400 block of West 26th Avenue, built in 1928, was demolished this day and carted away for recycling.
Take the bus
May 2nd, 2022 — The city of Vancouver wants people to use public transit so Translink, the people responsible for public transit, are removing bus stops along the busiest routes in the city. Possibly they think if people have to walk farther to find a bus stop they will be more likely to appreciate the ride.
Burrard Street
February 21st, 2022 — Burrard Street at Davie.
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