No Olympics parking lot at social housing site: VANOC

By Geoff Dembicki
July 15, 2009
The Tyee.ca

VANCOUVER - Organizers of the 2010 Winter Games denied rumours today that the Little Mountain Housing project will become an Olympics parking lot after it’s demolished.

“I haven’t heard anything about that,” VANOC executive vice-president of services and operations Terry Wright said.

Provincial government plans to bulldoze Vancouver’s oldest social housing site have met with vocal opposition of late, though only 12 families continue to live in the shuttered community.

The property sits near the Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre, which will host curling events during the Games.

Such proximity has given rise to speculation the site will be used to ease parking constrictions next February, a rumour Wright rebuffed.

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