For the past ten years this retail/residential building at the northwest corner of Kingsway and Glen has been covered in some form of scaffolding, netting, tarpaulin, etc. Not sure what the issue is here. The building is too old to have been made with the California stuccos some developers (one in particular) used and found to be useless in wet climates like Vancouver's.
When I arrived in London, England in September 1980 many of the city's heritage-designated Victorian and Edwardian buildings were similarly scaffolded, in preparation for the preservations their owners claimed they could not afford to make, despite their obligation to do so. This was the Thatcher era, and many of these buildings were in fact government buildings.
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