In June 2004, three buildings in the Japanese housing complex at the old customs terminal that had stood overlooking the Tanshui River for 70 years were razed to the ground with lightning speed by parking lot owners who were renting the land from the Bank of Taiwan. This came just as writers and historians from Tanshui were petitioning the Taipei County Government to list the complex as an historic site.
2004 年 6 月，臨眺淡水河，具有 70 年歷史的台銀淡水舊海關碼頭日式宿舍群，在淡水文史作者已聯名向台北縣政府申請列為古蹟之際，向台灣銀行承租土地的停車場業者，竟以迅雷不及掩耳的速度，將其中 3 棟宿舍剷平……。