{"id":7981,"date":"2012-04-02T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:19:21","slug":"price-points-a-village-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/02\/price-points-a-village-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Points: A Village in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once a thriving village of 40 stores and a school prior to World War I, it became a quiet backwater within a decade – and still is.<\/p>\n

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This is 3500 \u2013 3600 Commercial\u00a0 Street<\/em> – not Drive – and\u00a0was originally developed as a result of the 18th<\/sup> Avenue tram stop for the B.C. Electric Interurban Railway between New Westminster and Vancouver.\u00a0 (Map here<\/a>.) \u00a0As the railway pushed out into what had once been farmland in Cedar Cottage, small independent villages like this one at\u00a0sprung up.\u00a0 Its vibrancy was short lived, as the advent of the automobile in 1910-20 led to Kingsway\u2019s commercial dominance.<\/p>\n

From the Vancouver Heritage Foundation:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Gow Block, the building on the left with the bay windows on the second floor, was originally home to the Bank of Hamilton between 1910 and 1924, and until 1934 to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which had merged with the Bank of Hamilton.\u00a0 Once the bank closed, the corner location was taken over for the next 60 years by a corner grocery store, the linchpin in many neighbourhoods in the city.\u00a0 Ernie\u2019s Grocery was there for almost 40 years between 1960 \u2013 1996.<\/p>\n

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Gow Block\u00a0 – Construction date: 1910 (estimated, no building permit). \u00a0Original owner: \u00a0Bank of Hamilton.\u00a0 <\/em>Photo by Martin Knowles<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

The current owners of the Gow Block, a mixed commercial\/residential Edwardian building, call their heritage project \u2018Little Did We Know\u2019 because they had absolutely no idea how much work and expense would be involved when they impulsively decided to save the building from demolition.<\/p>\n

Naively thinking they could slowly start to fix up the building, they were startled to find out the city had other plans:\u00a0 either do it as one big project or no permits.\u00a0 Ripe for a new project, they pitched themselves into rehabilitating the building by removing the stucco, restoring the original siding, using archival images to restore the storefronts and replicating the original windows.* \u00a0Using a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA)** with the City of Vancouver, \u00a0they developed the back parking lot into\u00a0five new construction strata units to help finance the restoration of the heritage building.<\/p>\n

Want to see the inside?\u00a0 You’re in luck: it’s on the\u00a0Vancouver Heritage Foundation\u2019s 2012 Heritage House Tour:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, June 3rd<\/strong>
\n10am \u2013 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets: $40+hst<\/strong>
\nTo purchase tickets for the VHF\u2019s 10th Anniversary Heritage House Tour, visit the Vancouver Heritage Foundation <\/a>or call 604 264 9642<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 One upper residential unit and a rear strata unit will open on the tour.<\/p>\n

* Painted in the historic True Colour palette through the VHF Grant Program –\u00a0Body: Kitsilano Gold VC-11 (Low Luster);\u00a0 Trim: Comox Green VC-19 (Soft Gloss); Sash: Comox Green VC-19 (High Gloss Oil)<\/p>\n

** An HRA is an agreement negotiated by the City of Vancouver and owner of a heritage property, which enables the preservation of a heritage building by providing flexibility of planning by-laws to offset the additional cost of restoration.<\/p>\n

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