The housing stock in the Dunbar area of Vancouver has undergone significant change in the past five years. Originally a working class neighbourhood with many quite modest homes surrounded by lovely gardens, it is now a neighbourhood that 99% of the people working in Vancouver cannot afford because the replacement homes are built to the maximum footprint and cost millions. Greenspace has been reduced. Included on this website are photos of many (not all) of the disappeared houses.
View Teardowns in the Dunbar area of Vancouver, BC in a larger map

Demolitions West of the Dunbar Community Centre

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Oops--Wrong House

I demolished the wrong house! I recently was walking on this block and noticed that the white house on the right of the first photo (4047 West 20th) still stands, despite what I wrote in my blog entry of January 11, 2013. A new house now stands to its left. Since I was confused regarding which house was going to be demolished, I did not get a proper photo of the house that is now gone, but I dredged up these two partial photos of 4053 West 20th Avenue, which was demolished in 2011 or 2012. The first was taken in February 2011, with the melting snow; the second in May 2011 features the neighbour`s tulips.


PS on October 31, 2013: A Dunbar resident has forwarded a much better photo of the house! Now we can remember that it was one of those little houses with a round window.















Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)