We had a nice suite at a microhotel which is run out of the Gibbard Block, a brick building contructed in 1912, which now houses shared office spaces on the second floor, a restaurant on the bottom floor, and the microhotel run by Corduroy Suites on the third floor. It had everything we needed to feel right at home, and was very conveniently located on 112th Avenue. There was quite a bit of building in the early 1900s, but then a shift in the economy caused a lot of local buyers in that era to bankrupt or move elsewhere. A complicated legal entanglement saw Gibbard Block foreclosed on in 1926. These days, the economy is chugging right along and the city is seeing an inflow of people looking to buy or build. Our Uber driver said he knows many people who just gave up on ever buying a place in Vancouver, who have recently moved in.
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