Industrial buildings are like the Rodney Dangerfield of the heritage world.
They’re not the prettiest to look at. They tend to be nondescript and utilitarian in structure. And they’re often built for industries no longer relevant or enmeshed in the community.
So they’re easy to ignore, says Javier Campos, president of Heritage Vancouver Society, especially when compared to other forms of heritage flattened in the cogs of development.
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A burgeoning arts and tech hub serviced by rapid transit expansion to south and plans for a new St. Paul’s hospital and mixed-used development to the north is putting land at a premium. On top of that, most of the remaining industrial heritage buildings in the Flats haven’t been recognized on the city’s Heritage Register and many are in a rundown state, which makes them all the more vulnerable.
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