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Hi again,
I've briefly summarized the following section in the Geography, and removed the section as I think it's excessive detail and overly directory-like:
The demolished Woodward's Building, (only the original 1903–08 portion of the building remains) was at one time a central retail and social epicentre of the neighbourhood, and had sat empty for many years. [1] The City Hall driven process was led by then City Councilor Jim Green and was designed by local architect Gregory Henriquez. Almost the entire block is now being redeveloped by Westbank Projects to contain the Simon Fraser University School for Contemporary Arts, 200 units of social housing, 536 units of market housing, a drugstore, a foodstore, a daycare, National Film Board, Federal offices, City offices, a bank and 31,500 square feet (2,930 m2) of Community Space for DTES Non-Profit organizations which includes AIDS Vancouver and W2 Media Collective. [2]
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city.vancouver.bc.ca
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).Finding a reliably-sourced definition of the DTES borders has been very hard! I just added a new definition from the Georgia Strait. I removed the following passage which is from a less-reliable, undated source and says almost the same thing:
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Hi again,
I've briefly summarized the following section in the Geography, and removed the section as I think it's excessive detail and overly directory-like:
The demolished Woodward's Building, (only the original 1903–08 portion of the building remains) was at one time a central retail and social epicentre of the neighbourhood, and had sat empty for many years. [1] The City Hall driven process was led by then City Councilor Jim Green and was designed by local architect Gregory Henriquez. Almost the entire block is now being redeveloped by Westbank Projects to contain the Simon Fraser University School for Contemporary Arts, 200 units of social housing, 536 units of market housing, a drugstore, a foodstore, a daycare, National Film Board, Federal offices, City offices, a bank and 31,500 square feet (2,930 m2) of Community Space for DTES Non-Profit organizations which includes AIDS Vancouver and W2 Media Collective. [2]
References
city.vancouver.bc.ca
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).Finding a reliably-sourced definition of the DTES borders has been very hard! I just added a new definition from the Georgia Strait. I removed the following passage which is from a less-reliable, undated source and says almost the same thing:
References
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2021 and 16 April 2021. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Sidney Gordon.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 19:48, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:
Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 12:45, 23 January 2023 (UTC)