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Heritage Talks:
Vancouver's Main Post Office -
The Role of the Community in Determining its Future
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | 7:00pm to 9:00pm
TICKETS: Admission is FREE, but pre-registration is required
LOCATION: Arts & Culture Alliance; #100-938 Howe St. (street level entrance)
Join Heritage Vancouver and send a message to the city that you are interested in maintaining the Heritage Post Office (1958) on West Georgia Street. We invite to you to provide input into future uses for Vancouver's Main Post Office.
The Canada Post building is one of the city's last completely intact mid-century modern buildings and is made even more prominent by the fact that it occupies a full city block. The Post Office building that was owned by the people of Canada and Vancouver was sold to British Columbia Investment on January 25, 2013 to British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCIMC), one of Canada's largest institutional investment managers.
To date there has been no opportunity for people to have a say in what uses they would like to see in the building once it is no longer used by Canada Post. Right now the future of the Post Office block is uncertain and is in the hands of the successful owner/developer and the City of Vancouver.
Heritage Vancouver is providing the community with the opportunity to express their ideas about the kind of uses they would like to see in the building. All comments will be passed along to the City of Vancouver and will be made available through community media. People who are unable to attend the conversation will have the opportunity to provide their ideas after the event.
To kick off the conversation we have invited:
Philip Boname, of Urbanics Consultants,
Patricia Bourque of Bourque Brueggerto Architects, and
Bruno Freschi, a distinguished architect best known for his role as chief architect for Expo 86.
Let's send the message to our city government that the people of Vancouver have an interest in what happens to this prominent building!
See our 2012 Top 10 Endangered Sites enry for the Main Post Office:
www.heritagevancouver.org/topten/2012/topten2012_01.html
Come join the conversation!
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