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GALLERY BUILDING THREATENED Two respected Vancouver art galleries in the cultural district on the old Finning Lands are worried their industrial building will be demolished for a new Millennium Line Broadway extension. The Equinox Gallery and Monte Clarke Gallery are located in the renovated orange structure on Great Northern Way, in an old Finning tractor paint shop by the new Emily Carr University of Art + Design home. They’ve been joined by other galleries in the ’hood, like Chernoff Fine Art, Gallery Jones, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, and grunt gallery, as well as artist live-work spaces. The galleries’ big concern is that a “cut-and-cover” construction of the Skytrain extension would mean the building has to disappear as early as 2019. Andy Sylvester and Monte Clark, directors of the galleries, say they’re eager to work with the City of Vancouver and Translink to find a solution that protects the “industrial integrity of the site” while expanding Skytrain service to the neighbourhood. See the full story at Straight.com.