The old post office was already a massive, bunker-like building that took up an entire block.
The towers aren’t that tall as skyscrapers go — the south tower along Georgia is 19 storeys, the north tower along Dunsmuir is 22 storeys.
Bonnis Properties wants to add a tapering glass tower atop the east side of the 800 block of Granville Street that would rise up to 18 storeys.
Robert Lemon used to be the head of Vancouver’s heritage department.
When Lemon worked for the city, it developed a heritage density transfer program.
At the Hotel Georgia, for example, the existing building was retained at the same size in a redevelopment and a highrise condo built on its former parking lot.
“It’s a Catch-22,” said Lemon.
It isn’t just bigger heritage buildings that are being redeveloped.
But the original facade has been covered up, and when the Vancouver Heritage Register was compiled in the 1980s, it was missed.
“In the case of The Post, is it compatible? I don’t think it is, at all.
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