middenHeap12 Jan 2004

You mean, like in case it was full of crack, so that it wouldn't go to waste? Probably not. Though most of the rest of the neighbourhood was crack houses, this building was actually the headquarters & rehearsal space of a small theatre company and the Vancouver Ukranian society or some such non-profit. Afterwards it became a used car lot. They put up a little iron fence to keep the junkies out, and someone was always putting flowers there. The arsonist burned down 3 or 4 more non-profit organizations before they caught him. I guess he had a thing against NGOs.