City of Vancouver set to decide on future of 105 Keefer development proposal in Chinatown
Global News
The City of Vancouver is set to decide the fate of the empty lot at 105 Keefer when Vancouver’s Development Permit Board resumes its hearing on a controversial condo tower.
The future of an empty lot in Chinatown may be decided Monday – when the city of Vancouver’s Development Permit Board resumes its hearing on a controversial condo tower.
Beedie’s 105 Keefer Street proposal was rejected in November 2017 before a BC Supreme Court decision ordered the city to reconsider the project, which has garnered new support in Chinatown.
Lewis Hart’s business on East Georgia Street is a nod to the past – a dumpling shop in the front of house and a “hidden bar” in the back.
“That was a piece of history that I really wanted to bring back into Chinatown,” said the owner of Laowai & Blnd Tiger Dumplings.
The future Hart said, requires more feet on the streets, and he supports the nine-storey 111-unit building Beedie is proposing at 105 Keefer, with ground-level retail and a seniors’ centre.
“it’s extremely crucial,” Hart told Global News in an interview Saturday.
Chinatown’s faced a number of challenges over the last couple of years and all of the core neighbourhood groups and leaders have really understood that we really need to revitalize Chinatown and have new development and have new businesses come in to envision a really good future for Chinatown.”
The project was voted down by the Development Permit Board for a fifth time in 2017 but a December 2022 BC Supreme Court decision ordered the city to take another look at it.
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