Downtown Eastside Condos

Downtown Eastside Condos For Sale in Vancouver, BC

East Vancouver Condos For Sale

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About Downtown Eastside Condos

The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver is a vast community of individuals that some might argue are a bit down on their luck. This daring bunch of nomads line the streets between Chinatown, Gastown, Railtown and Japantown. But it wasn’t always this way.

Filled with conflict both socially and politically, this sub-culture bordering Abbott Street all the way through to Clark Drive, and including Venables Street and Prior Avenue, with much of it’s population accumulating along East Hastings Street, it is quite a large district that is endlessly vibrating with the good, the bad, and the ugly.

In the late 1860’s Gassy Jack Deighton laid the groundwork for what’s now known as Gastown. He offered a saloon between Carrall Street and Water Street, where local businessmen and blue-collar workers alike, both flocked after hours to sooth the day’s labour with a drink. By 1907, Alexander Street was home to a Japanese boarding house, where Japanese immigrants lived until they were sent to BC’s interior during the war. This area trickled into other nearby streets, bringing about “Japantown” and the infamous “Asahi Baseball Team”.

Despite these ghosts in the closet – and perhaps even because of them, Vancouver’s Eastside offers an electric community filled with heritage buildings boasting of originality that appeals to many. Constructed with 20th century style high ceilings, open spaces, and attention-driven architecture, there are many buildings that have been refurbished within Vancouver’s Eastside that artistic types and professionals alike are thrilled to call home, excited by the history and un-phased by the drama!

Architecture Worth Living on the Edge For

Back in the 80’s, Vancouver’s Eastside was actually a clean and thriving neighbourhood, well-known for the Woodwards building. It has since fallen to the unfortunate urban decay that comes with the mentally ill not having a designated and safe space in which to call home.

A Colourful Past Equal to its Colourful Present

Hastings Mill was one of the first companies to take root along the waters edge of Dunlevy Street in 1865. And although one might think of float houses as a modern marvel, they were actually the dwelling places of that time to those who worked at this mill, along with small shanty-type structures the locals then called home along Hastings Road – now called Alexander Street.

Alexander Street was named after the manager of Hastings Mill – Richard Alexander, who built a beautiful home along Alexander Street, and along with his neighbour – Henry Bell-Irving, owner of the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company, they dominated a large portion of Vancouver’s modern Eastside.

East Vancouver Neighbourhoods

Today East Van is home to all walks of life, and offers everything from opulent to affordable, modern to remodeled, and spacious to quaint. East Vancouver is bordered to the north by the Burrard Inlet, with the Fraser River to the south, and the city of Burnaby to the east. In addition, the community of East Van is divided by Ontario Street on the West Side of Vancouver, spanning quite a large area and giving people a variety of real estate buying options on every corner.