An online petition to save the Brickhouse building at 730 Main St. in Chinatown has emerged even though a rezoning application referencing the site has yet to be filed with the City of Vancouver. The petition raises concerns about the building’s future because the property is part of a possible application to redevelop properties from 728 to 796 Main Street.

The petition, which links to a recent Vancouver Sun article by John Mackie (“The heritage battle for Chinatown”), states: “Don’t let new condos flatten the Brickhouse.”…

…Bonnis Development owns the Brickhouse property, as well as vacant land beside it.

The building at 796 Main St. — Creekside Student Residence — is designated under the City of Vancouver’s single-room-accommodation bylaw and contains 22 designated SRA units. That site includes another small building at 207 Union Street — the Jimi Hendrix Shrine building.

“We have an agreement with the current owner, but we do not own [the property] as of today,” Kerry Bonnis, principle of Bonnis Development, told the Courier.

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