Salt Warehouse Features in the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver, Canada

Whilst we are in the middle of watching the winter olympics being held in Vancouver, Canada those actually attending the games can visit a restored salt. 


Last year we were able to provide some information about salt packing to George Martin, then working for Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Limited, Vancouver. CHRML were working on the restoration of the salt warehouse which is now a prime feature of the Winter Olympics.

Hal Kalman kindly sent over some pictures of the warehouse taken by their architects as repair works were completed. It will have a temporary life as an Olympic facility for the 2010 Winter Olympics (it is within the Olympic Village), and will become a restaurant / pub / bakery in the heart of a new neighbourhood some months later.

Surviving salt warehouses are now quite rare, so it is nice to see this being retained within a huge area of redevelopment.

Photographs below provided by
Harold D. Kalman PhD CAHP
Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Limited
Suite 308 - 2233 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC  V6J 3H9  (Canada)
T: 604.734.7505 F: 604.734.7991
For more information contact kalman@chrml.com  http://www.chrml.com/