Commercial Real Estate: Lobbying to save Chinatown’s heritage

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EVAN DUGGAN, The Province, December 19, 2017

Melody Ma retraces the steps she initially took about two years ago through Vancouver’s Chinatown.

The twenty-something freelance web developer and Chinatown activist remembers seeing a construction pit at Gore and East Hastings on that walk.

“There used to be all of these interesting mom-and-pop Chinese retailers occupying that building,” she told Postmedia on a similar stroll through Chinatown in mid-December. “I was thinking to myself that my childhood has literally become a construction pit,” she said, noting the new building lies just outside the Chinatown plan area boundaries, but nonetheless represents changes elsewhere in the neighbourhood. Read more…

Meloday Ma has been a major opponent of the 105 Keefer project in Chinatown. / VANCOUVER SUN

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Admin for Judy Lam Maxwell who specializes in chinatowns around the world and dumplings. She is a business owner-operator, historian, chef, volunteer, and activist. Judy is a third-generation European Canadian on her dad’s side and a first-generation Chinese Canadian on her mother’s side. She has deep roots in the foundation of the City of Vancouver.

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