Stylish South Granville
The Business Improvement Area
Established in 1907, the South Granville Business Improvement Area is south of Vancouver’s Downtown and north of the Kitsilano, Fairview, and Shaughnessy neighbourhoods. The area runs along Granville Street from the Granville Street Bridge over False Creek south to 16th Avenue, where the grand residences of Shaughnessy replace the shops, restaurants, and art galleries of South Granville.
When Vancouver as a city was three years old, South Granville already was an exclusive location and desirable destination before the first Granville Street Bridge went up across False Creek in 1889 to connect it to Downtown. Center Street became Granville Street in 1907. In the fall of that year, plans began for development of what would be First Shaughnessy, 423 acres between West 15th and King Edward avenues from Oak Street west to the BC Electric Railway interurban line to Lulu Island. New First Shaughnessy residents shopped on South Granville, establishing standards of high quality still extant today. Galleries and the Stanley Theatre followed, and the area acquired its cultural caché.
The Stanley Theater
The Stanley opened on the street between 11th and 12th avenues in December 1930 with a Lilian Gish movie, One Romantic Night. The Stanley was the only Vancouver theatre where juveniles could see not one but two Saturday matinees for ten cents. Granville Street and the Stanley went into decline during the ’80s, and it closed in 1991. After some talk of tearing it down, it rose again in 1997 as a fully refurbished venue for live performances. Whether for films or plays, the Stanley has been a major neighbourhood attraction, proof that the lively arts contribute much to neighbourhood prosperity and prestige.
The Granville Street Bridge
The present steel and concrete Granville Street Bridge, nearly a mile long and 90 feet high over Granville Island and False Creek, was the only eight-lane bridge on the continent outside New York City when it opened in 1954. The bridge supplanted an earlier structure that in 1909 had replaced the 1886 original.
Before construction began in 1951, politicians had tried to build a new bridge since 1945. A 1948 newspaper editorial complained that of “Vancouver’s obsolete bridges” “the Granville Bridge, because of its slippery surface, its pitted and rotted roadways, its wooden construction, its wooden approaches and the dangerous curve-in at its lift-spans mended with smooth-worn planks, is by far the worst.”
Information Links:
http://southgranville.org/
http://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/fairview.aspx
http://www.falsecreekcc.ca
http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/marpole-community-plan-granville.aspx
Gallery Row
In Vancouver, few would dispute that the highest concentration of art, antiques, painting, sculpture, and unique curiosities are in South Granville’s Gallery Row, the nerve centre of Vancouver’s art community for 40 years. Fourteen galleries cluster along this stretch of Granville Street between 5th Avenue and Broadway.
To list a few, Bau-Xi, the oldest contemporary gallery in Vancouver, exhibits paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings. Heffel, “Canada’s National Fine Art Auction House” in the historic Heffel Building at 7th Avenue, displays and previews inventory in an expansive 7,500-foot space. Uno Langmann Limited specializes in European and North American paintings from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The gallery showcases a careful selection of antique furniture, silver, and objets d’art in elegant, neo-classical surroundings. Douglas Reynolds Gallery, founded in 1995 between 7th and 8th avenues, specializes in historic and contemporary Northwest Coast aboriginal art. The gallery exhibits museum-quality artifacts of aluminum, bronze, glass, and resin in bentwood boxes, masks, and totem poles.
New South Granville Live MLS Listings
Stylish South Granville
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6491 CHELMSFORD Street in Richmond: Granville House for sale : MLS®# R2748098
6491 CHELMSFORD Street Richmond V7C 4X2 
$2,488,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2748098
- Bedrooms:
- 5
- Bathrooms:
- 4
- Floor Area:
- 4,184 sq. ft.
Happy New Year to all . Start your year off with a custom built home with the finest and most unique designs and finishings money can buy. Offering 5 bedrooms 3.5 Bths 2 Family Rooms, Formal living Room with vaulted ceilings and 360 degree gas fireplace, Formal Dining Room and a Massive entertainment size kitchen with eating area. Gorgeous custom glass center staircase, Skylights throughout offering a tonne of natural light and the entire house is surrounded by one of the most lush gardens and beautiful private cedar hedges . The private backyard offers over 1200sqft of custom paved patio plus a raised deck and built in BBQ. Meticulously maintained over the years with New windows and sliding doors(2010),New roof(2017),Hot water tank(2014)Located in one of the most prestigious neighbourhood More detailsListed by Heller Murch Realty
- Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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6351 CHATSWORTH Road in Richmond: Granville House for sale : MLS®# R2728660
6351 CHATSWORTH Road Richmond V7C 3S4
$2,380,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2728660
- Bedrooms:
- 4
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 2,087 sq. ft.
First time on the market, Approximate over 4,400 sf building area can be build on this 78' Frontage 11,076sf regular lot locate at prime central Richmond. Close to shopping centre, plaza, banks, restaurant, parks, schools, and golf course. School catchment: Blundell Elementary, Steveston-London Secondary, Gilmore Elementary(French Immersion)Whiteside Elementary(French Immersion) McRoberts Secondary. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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7271 GILBERT Road in Richmond: Granville House for sale : MLS®# R2743635
7271 GILBERT Road Richmond V7C 3W4
$2,318,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2743635
- Bedrooms:
- 7
- Bathrooms:
- 6
- Floor Area:
- 3,395 sq. ft.
Rarely available newer home with coach house near the centre of Richmond. Excellent layout of 3,395 sq ft living area including the main building and a coach house. Featuring beautiful 16’4 high ceiling living room & dining room, radiant heat & airconditioning, a gourmet kitchen with full stainless steel appliances, a wok kitchen, 5 bedrooms & 4 baths in main building. 4 Bedrooms coach house is a good mortgage helper, excellent location, steps to schools/parks. Ferris Elementary, Richmond Secondary More detailsListed by Sutton Group-West Coast Realty - Aedis Realty
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- 604-657-1111
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6400 LIVINGSTONE Place in Richmond: Granville House for sale : MLS®# R2674183
6400 LIVINGSTONE Place Richmond V7C 5N1
$2,298,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2674183
- Bedrooms:
- 6
- Bathrooms:
- 4
- Floor Area:
- 2,731 sq. ft.
Great Richmond central location! This bright and well kept home in sought after Granville on a quiet street, features a functional floor plan with 1 bedroom and 1 full bath on the main floor, large comfort living room with high ceiling, entertaining size dining room, gourmet kitchen with updated stainless steel appliances, quartz counter tops and plenty of cabinet space. SOUTH FACING backyard with new deck for your BBQ & entertainment. Top floor has 5 spacious bedrooms and 3 full bath, updated flooring in bedrooms. Lots of room and storage space are perfect for the whole family! Plenty of visitor parking. Walking distance to Blundell Elementary, Minoru Park, Richmond Shopping Centre, Skytrain Station and Restaurant. You definitely don’t want to miss out! Showing by appointment. More detailsListed by Nu Stream Realty Inc. - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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7611 LOMBARD Road in Richmond: Granville House for sale in "GRANVILLE" : MLS®# R2723851
7611 LOMBARD Road Richmond V7C 3M9
$2,088,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2723851
- Bedrooms:
- 3
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 1,726 sq. ft.
Rectangular 66 * 132 (8712sq ft.) lot in highly desirable Granville area. Great opportunity for a family to live in or keep current tenant and eventually re-build into a dream home. Top rated catchment schools, McKay Elementary School and Burnett Secondary School within walking distance. Transportation, Railway Greenway, Shopping is nearby as are recreational facilities and it is an easy 15 minute drive to Vancouver International Airport. Call LS for more information or to make an appointment More detailsListed by Royal Pacific Riverside Realty Ltd. - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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