Sweet shack for $10 million
Being proud of my small Alberta hometown, I've always been one to point out the "Made in Taber" (and Vancouver) label on Rogers Sugar Packets. Many locals have made a good living working at the "factory." I don't know how many of those workers have much knowledge of the sugar king BT Rogers, Benjamin Tingley Rogers, who was the founder and the president of the BC Sugar Refinery.
Well, here's the real estate buzz in Vancouver that the folks back home might be interested in. BT had quite a handsome little "sugar shack" built in 1901.at corner of Davie and Nicola in Vancouver's West End. It's known as the Gabriola Mansion, designed by one of Vancouver’s best known architects Samuel Maclure. The stately mansion house-turned-apartment-house-turned restaurant is now for sale for a cool $10 million.
Legend has it that al Capone slept there more than once. And it's haunted. But the scariest thing might be the price. $10 million is a lot of sugar and a lot of sugar beets. I'll bet if it had been built in Taber, you could pick it up for a couple of mil. So, before you good folks in Southern Alberta complain about the price of sugar you're putting in your coffee, think about what you might be paying for real estate in Vancouver.
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