10 - Sunday, August 23, 1987 ~ North Shore News

$10,000 PRICE To DETERMINE VIABILITY

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TEMPERS FLARED Wednesday evening after West Van- couver District Council voted to spend $10,000 on a study ferry building at the foot of 14th Street could actually be put to any of the uses suggested for it.

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By MAUREEN CURTIS Contrinuting Writer

Ambleside-Dundarave Mer- chants Association president Bill Irwin again spoke out against the cost of the study and the restora- tion of what was most recently the bus depot building.

“Any building can be rehabili- tated, but how much is it going to cost? It's an ugly building,” Irwin said.

Dr. James Sweeney of 3612 Marine agreed, and suggested that there were three or four houses in the area of the same vintage that would be more worthwhile to restore.

Ted McLaughlin, who was in the building as a child, recalled it as being rotten and musty even then,

“ET hated to go in there,"’ he said. ‘‘This is a piece of junk. Ifa big storm came along and blew it in the water, it would be good job.”

Sweeney also questioned the in- dependence of Donald Youngson, head of the team which was awarded the $10,000 contract for the heritage and re-use analysis of the ferry building.

“You've got some very good employees right in this municipal hall. Let’s put them to work,’ said Irwin.

Irwin also said that he had received threatening phone calls since he had spoken out against the ferry building restoration,

Youngson, a project cour- dinator, has been involved with the West Vancouver 75th Anniversary Committee.

“Some people are so close to Marine Drive that they tend to forget that there are other people in this community that use that area,’’ Youngson countered. “It’s time for them to step back and look at some of the opportuntities there.”

Youngson pointed out that Van- couver’s dilapidated CPR Roun- dhouse had gone on to become one of the most exciting exhibits at Expo '86,

“They said that the building that became Sager’s Maple Shop should be bulldozed,’ remarked Ald. Mark Sager.

But council was not entirely in agreement regarding the cost and purpose of the study.

“I believe that the building, apart from being ugly, is in very bad shape,’’ said Ald. Dave Finlay. ‘We might not be able to get a lot of people inside the door. And what will the cost of the upgrading be?”

A restoration figure of about $60,000 has been Suggested, but Finlay was concerned that it might be much more.

But’ municipal manager Terry Lester said,“‘We can't know if we should extend the money for the building if we don’t know if it can be used or not.””

Lester said it would be a waste to spend the $12,500 needed to move the building, if it would just need to be moved again.

Youngson told council the ferry building was once the support for a very active part of the communi- ty where many trade, commercial and social events took place.

“Tt is the opinion of many peo- ple that what is needed down there now is some sort of focal point,” he said. ‘This building could be the cornerstone of the resurrection of what was once a very viable part

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Youngson's study will look at the historical viability of the ferry building and then define possible uses for it.

He also intends *o look at where the restoration funding could come from and who could eventually run the building.

of the community.” He added that the building could also benefit the business community.

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