The former Arbutus Grocery is the focus of Kitsilano’s historic Delamont Park neighbourhood. In the 1960s, the city bought it and houses on 5th and 6th for demolition along the proposed route of the Burrard-Arbutus Connector (an arterial roadway planned for the old interurban right-of-way that did not proceed). A simple gabled wooden building with a square “boom-town front,” the grocery store was built in 1907 by Thomas Frazer, who had lived next door since 1901.