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<H1>Vancouver's Pantages Theatre among Canada's Top 10 endangered historic
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<DIV class=byline><SPAN class=name>By Laura Stone, The Province</SPAN><SPAN
class=timestamp><FONT color=#999999>July 8, 2009</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<H1 id=photocaption>Pantages Theatre, 152 East Hastings St., Vancouver. After
three years of negotiation, a redevelopment plan for this historic theatre was
scuttled last September when Vancouver City Council rejected a deal allowing the
developer to transfer bonus density to another site. Now for sale, the potential
purchaser appears uninterested in retaining the building.</H1>
<H2 id=photocredit><B>Photograph by: </B>Patrick Gunn, Heritage
Vancouver</H2></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<P>Tony Pantages was sitting in his 100-year-old house in Vancouver’s Strathcona
neighbourhood when he heard the news about the 101-year-old theatre he has
fought his whole life to save. </P>
<P>The Pantages Theatre — built by his great-great-uncle, Alexander Pantages, in
1907 and opened in 1908 — is tenuously holding on to its title as the oldest
vaudeville theatre in North America. </P>
<P>It was listed Tuesday on the Heritage Canada Foundation’s list of 10
most-endangered historic Canadian buildings. </P>
<P>The list’s goal is to bring national attention to sites that are neglected,
lack funding, have development problems and “weak legislation.” </P>
<P>Which only reminded Pantages of what he may have already lost. </P>
<P>“I’ve got a two-year-old daughter, and my dream was that, by the time she was
10, I could walk her from Strathcona to Main and Hastings for her to go to
theatre classes at the Pantages,” said the 45-year-old filmmaker. </P>
<P>“And that requires more than just saving a theatre. It requires revitalizing
a neighbourhood.” </P>
<P>The heritage list comes about a year after plans to revamp the theatre —
which once hosted Charlie Chaplin and Jack Dempsey before turning into an
art-house cinema in the 1970s — fell through. It was last used in 1994. </P>
<P>The Pantages Theatre Arts Society formed four years ago, with the goal of
renovating the building into a 650-seat theatre, with a 99-seat rehearsal space,
two new lobbies and an art gallery. </P>
<P>There would have also been 136 units of new affordable housing attached. </P>
<P>Brent Toderian, Vancouver’s planning director, called the
$40-million-to-$60-million draft plan “too rich for our blood” and said it was
never formalized. </P>
<P>Penny Ballem, Vancouver city manager, said there are no current commitments
to fund the theatre. </P>
<P>“We’re looking into it. We know it’s important and these things are very,
very costly. So the city is exploring what options there are,” she said. </P>
<P>Pantages isn’t sure when, if ever, the theatre will be used again. </P>
<P>“There’s this real sense of Vancouver having forgotten to knit its history
through its architecture,” he said. </P>
<P>“Our theatre is something that’s probably the last touchstone to the old
Vancouver and the old entertainment world of Vancouver.” </P>
<P>The Pantages family, which once had 72 vaudeville theatres across North
America, has not owned the building for more than 50 years. </P>
<P>Current owner Marc Williams has done “everything he can to help us out,” said
Pantages. </P>
<P>He doesn’t know who would buy the property for a theatre. </P>
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<H1 id=storyphotocaption>Pantages Theatre, 152 East Hastings St., Vancouver.
After three years of negotiation, a redevelopment plan for this historic theatre
was scuttled last September when Vancouver City Council rejected a deal allowing
the developer to transfer bonus density to another site. Now for sale, the
potential purchaser appears uninterested in retaining the building.</H1>
<H2 id=storyphotocredit><B>Photograph by: </B>Patrick Gunn, Heritage
Vancouver</H2></DIV></DIV>
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