2022 - Vancouver - Shaldon Hotel Graffiti Wall & Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) Outdoor Inhalation Site - 1 of 2
This is the southwest corner of East Hastings and Columbia Streets in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) Vancouver.
This location was one of two Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) outdoor inhalation sites now closed in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside (DTES). The site opened in 2021 and closed early 2022,
A nondescript commercial building on the corner lot (Vancity’s Pigeon Park Savings) is now a pile of rubble.
This mural wall is on the Sheldon Hotel and it is also coming down. From 2008 until 31 July 2020 the building provided supported housing run by RainCity Housing.
The Sheldon completed in 1909 was called the Wright Building and the Grand Central Rooms. It was named after its owner, H D Wright of Seattle, and was designed by H B Watson.
Over the years it became the St James Hotel, the Wilbur Rooms, the Windsor Hotel, and now the Shaldon Hotel.
The three lots 52-92 will become a new social housing building for Indigenous people.
The new building’s ground level will be utilized as a Vancouver Native Health Society healing centre, community food centre, and a “Long House” gathering space.
2022 - Vancouver - Shaldon Hotel Graffiti Wall & Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) Outdoor Inhalation Site - 1 of 2
This is the southwest corner of East Hastings and Columbia Streets in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) Vancouver.
This location was one of two Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) outdoor inhalation sites now closed in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside (DTES). The site opened in 2021 and closed early 2022,
A nondescript commercial building on the corner lot (Vancity’s Pigeon Park Savings) is now a pile of rubble.
This mural wall is on the Sheldon Hotel and it is also coming down. From 2008 until 31 July 2020 the building provided supported housing run by RainCity Housing.
The Sheldon completed in 1909 was called the Wright Building and the Grand Central Rooms. It was named after its owner, H D Wright of Seattle, and was designed by H B Watson.
Over the years it became the St James Hotel, the Wilbur Rooms, the Windsor Hotel, and now the Shaldon Hotel.
The three lots 52-92 will become a new social housing building for Indigenous people.
The new building’s ground level will be utilized as a Vancouver Native Health Society healing centre, community food centre, and a “Long House” gathering space.