Today's Throwback Thursday takes a look back at Milano's humble roots, the all but complete 30-storey condo tower once the site of a what can only be described as a over-sized shack which likely served as the offices of Carter Collision Repair in what was then a rather bleak stretch of suburban Burnaby. 

Future Milano site, June, 2015, image via Google Street View

Viewed above in June, 2015, the future site of the Milano was once home to a large aluminum-sided shack, more than likely used as the offices of the aforementioned Carter Collision Repair shop, still active in its reduced form, adjacent to the new development. 

Milano, nearing completion in June, 2018, image by Forum contributor City of Rain

Captured exactly three years later, the above image from June, 2018, shows a dramatically different scene, the worn out shack replaced by a shiny new condo. Thus part of Burnaby's ongoing redevelopment, Milano is but one of several similar projects now in the process of transforming the former suburb into a high-density urban-suburban hybrid. 

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