VANCOUVER -- Robert Fung is the most active player in Vancouver's hugely successful heritage restoration program, undertaking six of 25 buildings that have been saved in the past five years. He spearheaded multimillion-dollar projects on the promise of incentives from city hall intended to help pay extra costs associated with preserving the city's history.
But Mr. Fung now suspects the city may have a memory problem, forgetting its commitments to those who took risks on heritage restoration.
A proposal to modify the program to help other neighbourhoods would be a betrayal to those who invested in the projects, he said in an interview.
"We negotiated in good faith years ago," Mr. Fung said. Any move by the city to alter the nature of the program "is really reneging on a good-faith arrangement."
