From The Tyee — In the scramble for residential land, should industrial areas be sacrificed?

Like many Vancouver residents, Noah Choy was looking for a home for his family. Someplace with a sense of community. Spots for kids to play. A place he and his wife could call their own with more room for their one-year-old than their small condo in Kitsilano.

He found his answer in River District, a planned community just south of where Choy grew up in Champlain Heights. The 130-acre development is what's called a "brownfield" site -- former industrial land near Kerr and Marine Drive where, in the last century, sawmills received logs floated in along the Fraser River. Read more: In Vancouver's Port Land Makeover, Industry Takes a Blow | The Tyee