2 entrepreneurs’ idea to turn old SkyTrains into art studios [Video]

Two Vancouver entrepreneurs have submitted a proposal to TransLink to turn the old SkyTrain carriages into art studios.

David Duprey owns the Narrow Group and has created more than 110,000 square feet of studio space in Vancouver. He says the idea is a way to help the struggling art scene.

He’s been operating the former City Centre Motel as an ‘artist lodge’ and is behind numerous restaurants in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

“Any opportunity to create artist space, I think is amazing and this is a wacky fun way to do it. Like can you imagine a SkyTrain at the side of the road, an empty lot with a bunch of artists working in it.”

Duprey adds there is a shortage of art spaces in the city and his goal is to create more.

“There is a massive demand for it, I mean we have 0 per cent vacancy, like …