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REAL ESTATE Strathcona heritage building listed for sale at $8.5 million

by Carlito Pablo

AVancouver heritage building in a storied location has come on the market. e Jackson, an apartment building with retail on the ground oor, listed on April 13 for $8.5 million. e 660 Jackson Avenue property is found in the historic neighbourhood of Strathcona. It is included in the Vancouver Heritage Register as a Category B building, which means it is of “signi cant” importance.

As the register explains, Category B represents “good examples of a particular style or type, either individually or collectively” or “may have some documented historical or cultural signi cance in a neighbourhood”. e Jackson Avenue building is associated with Edward Evans Blackmore, an architect who designed a number of buildings in Vancouver.

One of these is the McLennan and McFeely Building, a ve-storey heritage structure in Gastown also known as the Canadian Fairbanks Building.

Another building designed by Blackmore was the Pantages eatre on East Hastings Street, a vaudeville house that is now gone, replaced by a residential development called Sequel 138.

Per B.C. Assessment, 660 Jackson Avenue has a 2022 assessment of $7,153,000. e brick building was built in 1909 and has a current value of $4,163,000. Meanwhile, the 50-foot by 122-foot lot is assessed at $2,990,000. e Sutton Group–West Coast Realty listing states that this building at the northeast corner of Jackson and East Georgia Street contains 24 suites, consisting of 13 one-bedroom and 11 two-bedroom units.

Finch’s Market, a neighbourhood café and grocery, is located on the ground oor.

In a 2014 article in Scout magazine, writer Stevie Wilson recalled that the rst recorded main- oor business at the location was the Costalas Costa Grocery in 1911. Wilson wrote that this “began the address’ unbroken ‘market’ tradition”. During the 1970s, Fung’s Grocery served the neighbourhood.

Wilson noted that the market tradition continues with Finch’s Market, which has an address of 501 East Georgia Street. Finch’s Market is a local café and grocery.

“It was here on this corner in 1917 that police chief Malcolm MacLennan famously met his end,” Wilson also related about the location, which she called the Jackson Apartments. MacLennan and a young boy were shot and killed by a local man named Bob Tait in a shootout with the Vancouver police.

“ ere is a mosaic memorial to the fallen chief set into the sidewalk just outside the front door,” Wilson wrote. g

The Jackson apartment block at 660 Jackson Avenue has long been home to grocery stores.

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