The Ugly Duckling is now an important resident of Canada’s oldest Chinatown, and part of a phenomenon as Chinatowns in Western Canada evolve and the owners of…
But new restaurants haven’t stopped opening, Eng said.
Eng does not discount Chinatown’s battle retaining small heritage food establishments, and he wonders if things may have turned out differently had plans to build a nine-storey mixed-use building on a site known as 105 Keefer not been rejected.Article content “So the effort is, how does one participate in the economic evolution of the area, but still maintain what’s really important to the cultural history of the place?” Fung said.
“I feel that there’s actually a very narrow bandwidth that we can work with to deliver what we think we want to do, which is be authentic to the restoration,” Fung said. ” ⦠Try to tell the story of that history or celebrate it, while enabling the space to be relevant today and financially viable.”
In Calgary, city council passed a cultural and development plan dubbed “Tomorrow’s Chinatown” in December after three years of consultation.
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