Post #663673 by Doctor Tiki on Thu, Jan 10, 2013 12:59 PM

Sign the petition http://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-vancouver-save-the-waldorf-hotel-2#

Many of you may know of the extraordinary Tiki legacy of the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver. Built in 1947, completely refurbished into a Tiki palace 1955 after the owner had a moment of enlightenment in Tahiti. As the Tiki era faded the three tiki bars in the hotel were boarded up for decades. The neighborhood became poor and unattractive for a developer to knock it down. In 2010 a group of entrepreneurs signed a lease, restored the hotel and, in fact, make it even more tiki. The hotel and tiki bars have become a Mecca of culture in Vancouver and the lease holders care for the tiki bars better than anyone could have hoped. Unfortunately they could not sustain the business and last week they ran out of time and money. The building has been sold to a condo developer and they must vacate immediately. The developer has declined any offer to even meet with the group who run the businesses in the hotel and whose creative community created the value that the developer now seeks to exploit. I don't think there is a bad guy here but the developer must not be allowed to destroy this historic place. Please sign the petition.

Here's the petition http://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-vancouver-save-the-waldorf-hotel-2#

Here's more about the Waldorf Hotel and Tiki Bar in Vancouver http://www.vancouversun.com/business/commercial-real-estate/Vancouver+Waldorf+Hotel+close+with+video/7797282/story.html

[ Edited by: Doctor Tiki 2013-01-10 13:23 ]