Vancouver commission endorses designation of Fleck Brothers Warehouse as heritage property

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      The Vancouver Heritage Commission supports the designation of a warehouse in Railtown as a heritage property.

      If eventually approved by city council, the three-storey concrete building known as the Fleck Brothers Warehouse will be preserved.

      The conservation of the 365 Railway Street property is part of a development plan by Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust.

      The plan involves the addition of four storeys using mass timber or engineered wood.

      Architectural firm Perkins and Will prepared the design rationale for the project.

      In the document, the firm notes that the building constructed between 1948 and 1949 is a “Late Moderne-style concrete warehouse structure”.

      It is located on the north side of Railway Street, and backs onto the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks.

      “It is built into the waterfront escarpment of Burrard Inlet, two-storeys in height facing the street, with a full exposed storey at the rear originally connected to a railway spur,” the design rationale document states.

      The new seven-storey building will serve office and industrial uses.

      A motion approved on March 28 by the Vancouver Heritage Commission expressed support for the development’s “proposed level of structural retention, and consistency of conservation procedures proposed in the Conservation Plan”.

      The motion also endorsed the addition of the Fleck Brothers Warehouse to the Vancouver Heritage Register. 

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