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The site of Ritz Carlton is an unfinished skeleton of a building, one of Vancouver's worst eyesores:
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The original nine-storey office building was built sometime in the 1960’s. In 1994, permits were issued to strip the existing office building of its exterior walls and interior finishes and to change the use of floors one through six from office use to a fitness club known as the “Newport Beach Club”. After work began, for unknown reasons, construction was suspended, with cranes, tarps, railings, etc left intact. After a while the permits expired. The site would sit as a vacant and derelict building for many years.
However, in the last few weeks, preparation work for demolition has begun to make way for the new helical tower:
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Main elevator lobby:
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Lobby, looking Southeast:
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April 26, 2007: Preparation work for demolition finally begins:
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The original nine-storey office building was built sometime in the 1960’s. In 1994, permits were issued to strip the existing office building of its exterior walls and interior finishes and to change the use of floors one through six from office use to a fitness club known as the “Newport Beach Club”. After work began, for unknown reasons, construction was suspended, with cranes, tarps, railings, etc left intact. After a while the permits expired. The site would sit as a vacant and derelict building for many years.
However, in the last few weeks, preparation work for demolition has begun to make way for the new helical tower:
Main elevator lobby:
Lobby, looking Southeast:
April 26, 2007: Preparation work for demolition finally begins:
