Club owners want compensation for repeated damage from Vancouver social housing – BC [Video]

Two Vancouver nightclub owners struggling to survive amid a ‘flood’ of problems are seeking compensation in the form of rent relief from the provincial government, claiming their extensive, ongoing losses and damages have been caused by policies that moved people from encampments into the Granville Entertainment District during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Within a 36-hour period between Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19, Alan Goodall said his bar was subject to four separate floods from the former Howard Johnson hotel at 1176 Granville Street.

The final deluge occurred at 11:30 p.m. on the club’s busiest night of the week, forcing Goodall to mop the floor of his VIP section during operating hours.

“Those two tables, they’re our best tables on a Saturday night, prime time, and they were unusable,” said Goodall, adding that most people don’t understand nightclubs …