26 - ~ Wednesday, September 27, 1995 ~ - North Shore News

Arts c centre
idea snubbed

. ‘RUMORS OF an arts centre

‘being developed at the current:

site of the West Vancouver post
~ office on 17th Street had mem-
bers: of the Ambleside and
’ .Dundarave Ratepayers Assoc-
‘iation (ADRA) registering early
protests..at West Van : District
- Council’s Sept. 18 meeting. -
- WEST VANCOUVER .
DISTRICT COUNCIL

». By Maureen Curtis

ORB ADRA president George Murrell
charged: that ‘councillors were

“scheming.”. He wamed that taxpay-.

“ers would not be willing to foot'a $4
million bill for a new arts facility.
“Such a facility has been anticipat-

"ed for many years, but in the interim,.

_a” numberof. municipally. owned

houses on the Ambleside waterfront :

the closure of-the West Vancouver
post office at 225 17th seems immi-
nent and that there are a number of
“benefactors” in the community who
“may” be interested in donating the
money needed to acquire the site for
an arts facility.

“Any kind of development would
be held in a full, public, open forum,"

_ Said Sager. °

Lionel Lewis, of ADRA, told the

‘News that the post office building is

being offered for sale for about $5
million, considerably more than its
1995 assessed value of $2,971,000.

- At the council meeting, . Lewis
said the post office building would be
“completely unsuitable” as an aris
centre, unless it were torn down and

_ rebuilt at cost to the community.

Later, he wondered how such a
project would be received when West
Vancouver is currently putting aside
funds for a new recreation centre in

the. western part of the community.
:“Itis needed more than an arts centre.
~~ ‘There are more people interested in.

recreation, ‘he said.

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