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Millennium Water JANUARY 10 www. bus- ex. com 91 The site's historical legacy was preserved in the design. For instance, the 16,000- square- foot Salt Building, built in 1930, is being restored to house small retail shops including a brewpub, bakery and coffee-grinding facility. The building's original function was to receive raw salt, which was then processed and shipped throughout the province of British Columbia. " It's a fabulous old building that opens onto a public plaza designed in a shipbuilding motif to reflect the historic background of this site," Bayley explains. Because the site had been an area of intense shipbuilding, rail activity and heavy industrialization since the 19th century, it required environmental remediation. In fact, the remediation and excavation project is the largest in Vancouver history. " There was more Liberty Ship tonnage built on this site than anywhere else in the world," Bayley says. Then in the mid- 1990s, Vancouver's prominent architectural planners introduced the concept of a sustainable community with a European flair. This meant a departure from Vancouver's focus over the last decade on high- rise towers, typically 20 stories to 40 stories high. Millennium Water incorporates a mix of non-