From The Globe and Mail —‘The Flats’ Rises From a Post-Industrial Cradle

Vancouver's large industrial site between Main Street and Clark Drive and along Great Northern Way is undergoing an urban renewal process. While not a waterfront site like Nanaimo's South Downtown Waterfront, it offers a useful study. Of particular interest, the relocation of the campus of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, housing for a range of incomes, rapid transit, and the integration of the plan with existing industrial uses. Below, Kerry Gold's story in the Globe.

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A new neighbourhood is emerging amid the squat, old industrial buildings that lie to the east of Vancouver’s gentrified and trendy Main Street area.

Framed between railway tracks to the north, wide thoroughfares Clark Drive to the east and Great Northern Way to the south, and Main Street’s growing wall of condo towers, the area nicknamed “The Flats” is set to become an arts-and-tech oriented enclave of students, restaurants, galleries, breweries, coffee shops and limited residential.  More at: ‘The Flats’ rises from a post-industrial cradle - The Globe and Mail