Twenty-one years ago, the City of Vancouver bought the abandoned Woodward's department store with plans to turn it to a multi-use building, including 100 units for social housing. Simon Fraser University professor Clint Burnham speaks to Dan Burritt about the building and how it led to the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside.
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