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REAL ESTATE Century-old Kits corner store set for demolition by Carlito Pablo On June 24, Vancouver city council neighbourhood amenities and local food approved a motion by councillor Sarah infrastructure of coee shops, restauKirby-Yung to pursue the revival of neighrants, services, and shopping, including bourhood stores. the need to access goods right in their In her motion, Kirby-Yung cited the own neighbourhood”. importance of traditional corner stores in “Local corner grocer stores once lled “creating social connection in neighbourthis role in Vancouver neighbourhoods, hoods, as well as supporting daily needs”. providing a place where locals bought fresh Moreover, with more people working milk, cheese, some staples, while also servfrom home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a “greater need for ing as a social gathering place for Commun ity,” Kirby-Yung noted in her motion. g B on Ton ON THE BLOCK

A 1912 building on the corner of Kitsilano’s Yew Street and West 6th Avenue that later became a C orner stores have been disappearing in Vancouver over the years. And now another one is likely city for a development permit to build a two-storey, two-family dwelling at 2137 Yew Street. In its letter, the Heritage Vancouver Soneighbourhood corner store is slated for redevelopment. Photo by City of Vancouver in 1978. headed that way. ciety recalled that the 1912 building was at’s because a new housing project designed for Henry Douglas King and has been proposed at the northwest corconstructed by H.D. Crawford for $5,600. ner of Yew Street and West 6th Avenue in “We also note that the set-back structure Kitsilano. attached to the north of the main builde site is home to a 1912 building with ing may be the original residential frame residential uses and a neighbourhood store dwelling, now covered in vinyl siding, datthat was once known as Helen’s Grocery. ing from its construction in April 1907,” e Heritage Vancouver Society has the group wrote. written the City of Vancouver to express its e society stated that the proposed redisappointment over the impending loss of placement “doesn’t address the loss of the the early 20th-century structure. commercial space which is still in use serv

“Designed in 1912 by noted architect ing the neighbourhood as a corner store”. W.F. Gardiner, its loss will further erode In addition, the group noted the “lack Kitsilano’s ever-increasing loss of both its of street engagement and activation, and built and social character,” the group wrote absence of community integration, all of on September 24. which helps in part to dene Kitsilano’s

Design Work Group has applied to the neighbourhood character”.

A bakery and tearoom that is a popular Kitsilano fixture has been put up for sale. d NOTTE’S BON TON Pastry & Confectionery, a well-known Vancouver bakeshop, is for sale. Established in 1926, the business has been operating for almost a century. A listing by the Restaurant Business Broker agency pegs its price at $249,000. The sale includes the bakeshop and tearoom. The business is located in Kitsilano, at 3150 West Broadway. The listing discloses

that it generates annual gross revenue of $600,000, with approximately $100,000 in net income. A 2016 account on the site creatorsvancouver.com states that the bakeshop was started by Oreste and Agnes Notte in Victoria. They moved to Vancouver in the 1930s, according to this report, spending decades at 874 Granville Street as one of the first tenants of the Commodore building. The bakery reportedly remained in the Notte family. Not all stories agree on the details, though. Another one, this on bakersjournal.com in 2017, recalled that Oreste Notte “initially emigrated from France to the United States as a teenager but didn’t like New York City and decided to try Canada”. An account by Montecristo Magazine, on the other hand, recalled that the founder was “born in Italy and trained to be a pastry chef throughout Europe”. g by Carlito Pablo

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