To the editor:
Re: "Mayor supports new $350 million art gallery," April 19
Does it no strike you as strange that our mayor and council proclaim their vision for Vancouver by offering to finance a new art gallery by selling off some real estate. Vision Vancouver is the farm team for the B.C. NDP, the latter are critical of the current provincial budget because it is doing the same, selling assets to balance the books.
Is this irony or hypocrisy? Given that Emily Carr Institute and the Vancouver Art Gallery are both culture institutions that are seeking to relocate to larger facilities, would it not be better synergy and value of money for the taxpayers if they were planned together, that is let us gain with the economies of agglomeration, or is this too much of a vision for this council?
Chris Shelton, Vancouver
