Two East Van neighbourhoods duel over iconic East Van Cross
Advertisement 3“In line with the cultural context, consultation with neighbouring development, site assessments, expert evaluation and background work to date, the most current decision has been to keep Ken Lum’s Monument for East Vancouver at its current location,” said the city in a prepared statement.
Wyles said the cross could be positioned at the juncture of Main and Kingsway, or on the corner of busy Kingsway and Broadway, where a replica of a trolley sits on a small strip of city-owned land marking a decommissioned bus stop.Article content Working off a list of city-owned properties, he made computer renderings of the work in different locations, including Mount Pleasant near 7th and Main, near Kensington Park on Knight Street, and near the Broadway-Commercial SkyTrain station. But all sites posed issues, so he took a closer look at the Clark Drive site.Article content
“There’s a pathos, an emotional stirring,” he said. “It’s not a beautiful site” but one that speaks to the city’s gritty industrial history and nods to the area’s once-dominant Italian and Roman Catholic immigrant roots.
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