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THE WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOVWMBER 2012 W E S T V A N C O U V E R MEMORIES ABOVE: SAFEWAY, JUNE 30, 2012 THE DAY BEFORE IT CLOSED, DOOZWVML LEFT: CONSTRUCTION ON JOHN LAWSON PARK NORTH FOR NEW SAFEWAY EARLY 1950'S 0219MCP John Lawson Park N o r t h Sold for N e w Safeway Originally the John Lawson Park land stretched across the PGE Railroad and Bellevue Avenue right up to Marine Drive (donated to WestVancouver by John Lawson). By the late 1950's the Safeway store I at the corner of Marine Drive and 16th (now Shoppers Drug Mart) had outgrown its building. They were looking for a large area to redevelop. At approximately the same time the British Pacific Properties (BPP) hired the Seattle office of the famous New York landscape (continued on page 3) SAFEV\/AY AT 16TH BEFORE MOVE 0604.WVML OLD SAFEV^AY SITE UEVJ STORE