August 13th, 2024 — Prime development property at the north end of the Burrard Bridge.
Category: Vanishing Vancouver
Last holdout
May 2nd, 2024 — East of Cambie Street on West King Edward Blvd; the last holdout in the block.
Out with the old
March 2nd, 2024 — The above house in the 500 block of West 64th Avenue will soon be demolished and replaced by towers like those in the background. Meanwhile, in the picture below, only a few blocks away in the 7700 block of Osler Street, a new single family house nears completion.
Later the next day
January 11th, 2024 — What a difference a day makes. Above is the rear of 3781 West 18th Avenue on Thursday and below is the front of the house on Wednesday.
What a waste
October 14th, 2023 — This house at 4522 North West Marine Drive is being demolished so a new, probably much bigger house, can be built in its place. It was built in 1995 and sold for $4.5 million in October of 2021. The most recent assessment had the house itself valued at $455,000. That’s a lot of money for rubble.
4 million
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.
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.
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