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"Offensive and Ignorant Liar:" Downtown Eastside Outraged that Pantages Owner Calls Neighbourhood a "Dead Zone"

Submitted on July 29, 2011

July 29, 2011 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Downtown Eastside residents are outraged at Pantages site owner and condo developer Marc William’s recent PR blitz declaring the DTES a “dead zone” with “no activity in the past 30 years except drug dealing”...“The DTES is an alive community, people live here. How can Williams get away with such poor-bashing statements? Williams is lying when he says that no one will be displaced. Condos displace low income residents by pushing up land values and rents.”

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