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City approves new museum on Esplanade Community history showcase near Quay to open in 2019 JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
The past may be through with North Vancouver, but North Vancouver isn’t through with the past.
The North Vancouver Museum and Archives officially found a new home Monday, as City of North Vancouver council unanimously voted to hang their history in the Polygon development at 131 West Esplanade. The museum will be on the first floor of Polygon Homes’ 14-storey condo development. The approximately 16,000-square-foot space has an estimated value of $11 million.
Council’s approval marks the end of “30 years of a dream,” said Coun. Don Bell. That dream was denied earlier in 2016 when council rejected plans to move the museum’s itinerant artifacts into the Pipe Shop building after the NVMA’s fundraising drive fell nearly $1 million short. The rejection represented a “great failure of the imagination,” said Coun. Pam Bookham. However, the disappointment led to a “better facility than could’ve been attained in the Pipe Shop,” according to Bell. The Polygon site will provide: “A first-class modern museum, and not just simply a repository of dusty artifacts.” Coun. Linda Buchanan, who previously expressed concerns about the museum becoming a “financial
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Rental vacancy rates among worst in region BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
When it comes to looking for an apartment, you couldn’t do much worse than the North Shore, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The District of North Vancouver, the District of
West Vancouver and City of North Vancouver ranked second, third and fourth respectively for the lowest vacancy rates in the region, according to the housing authority’s 2016 survey. The District of North Vancouver’s vacancy rate sits at 0.1 per cent, down
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CHOP STARS MasterChef Canada contestant chef Travis Petersen and chef Derrick Peltz, MasterChef Season 6 runnerup, plate a pair of kusshi oysters, the first of five courses of a meal service at Finch & Barley restaurant in Lower Lonsdale on Monday night. Organizers said the $100-a-plate pop-up dinner, presented by catering company The Nomadcook, was the first time alumni from the Canadian and U.S. versions of the show had worked together. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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