Can you say "Plan C"? We've gone back to the very first plan for the front entrance. Go figure...It will give us some more space in the storefront.
Q: do you want to know how to make it rain?
A: Hire a company to come and redo your roof.
We removed some of the existing aluminum siding on the front of the building over the weekend, with hopes of revealing the original parapet that is in some of the old drawings we've discovered. To our surprise, someone had cut it off and made it even all along the top. I think we can do some work to restore it to it's original look.
On a side note, when researching some history on the building at the City of Vancouver Archives, the archivist brought out a huge tome for me to look at, with the strict rules that I had to put on special gloves. Either that or I was being secretly filmed for an Audrey Hepburn reality show. I learned that our building was constructed the same year as The Hudson's Bay at Georgia and Granville. The Bay cost somewhere in the area of a whopping $350,000 to build at that time.
