Vancouver’s Newest Business Improvement Area
The Crossing
The Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association defines Hastings Crossing as the Downtown Vancouver area along Hastings Street from Richards Street east to Gore Avenue with portions of Cambie, Cordova, Dunsmuir, Hamilton, Main, Pender, and Powell streets.
There is no actual physical crossing except from East to West Vancouver, a divide that has influenced city culture, economics, and politics. 
The crossing is also temporal, says the association, into a new era as community groups, planners, and political leaders question and challenge established ways of doing business. Hastings Crossing is a business community for creativity, enterprise, and innovation. More than 650 businesses and property owners in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside comprise this creative and innovative community of entrepreneurs.
The association takes a leadership role in managing change to a more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable Downtown Eastside local economy, meeting local business needs with community organizations that foster a vibrant, diverse area for all whether here daily or just one day.
The Mission
The association mission is to promote and support member business and property owners, to advocate for their interests, and to contribute to the social, cultural, and economic well-being of the Hastings Crossing area. Driven by strong social and environmental values, the association dedicates itself to the authentic urban culture of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
The Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association works and cooperates with City of Vancouver planners and staff of elected leaders and with community groups, nonprofits, and local businesses to create and support initiatives to improve the condition of the local economy, management of the urban domain, and stewardship of the natural environment. The association supports removal graffiti and street debris, commercial and cultural events, and market strategies to draw consumers to area businesses.
The Heritage
Hastings Crossing has hundreds of innovative software designers, web developers, and other creative services, cozy cafes, fashionable restaurants, retail stores, professional services, social enterprises, and post-secondary educational institutions. The Carnegie Community Centre, Vancouver’s first library and one of its most beautiful neoclassical buildings, and Vancouver’s original city hall are in Hastings Crossing among scores of other heritage buildings.
Hastings Crossing enjoys a high concentration of artists. The Simon Fraser University School for Contemporary Arts and the Vancouver Film School draw musicians, actors, fashion designers, and entrepreneurs eager for a creative urban culture.
Information Links:
hxbia.com
http://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/hastings.aspx
http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/dtes-local-area-plan.aspx
The Challenge
Hastings Street between Main and Cambie can be a study in contrasts of wealth and poverty. The challenge for the business improvement association is to revitalize the neighbourhood with new investment without displacing residents of modest means. All property owners inside association boundaries pay an annual contribution of $0.40 per $1,000 of assessed property commercial value to support the association’s programs. On paper, there are more than 300 businesses in the area, but only 70 have participated actively the association started in April 2011.
The association pursues an inclusive development model for future prosperity of the area, which, it argues, must not be gentrified traditionally by demolition, reconstruction, and displacement of the poor. The association’s pursuit may seem quixotic in a world where big money always seems to have the last say, but a former city planning director says social inclusion is a smart business strategy: Hire local people and help them make money so they can buy your products and afford your services and keep money in the community.
New Hasting Crossing Live MLS Listings
Hasting Crossing Neighborhood in Vancouver, BC
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1623 E GEORGIA Street in Vancouver: Hastings Fourplex for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2573847
1623 E GEORGIA Street Vancouver V5L 2B1 
$3,949,000Multifamily- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2573847
- Bedrooms:
- 4
- Bathrooms:
- 4
- Floor Area:
- 4,200 sq. ft.
Huge Development opportunity to build within walking distance to the Commercial drive. Over 12000 square feet combined hold now and build later or Start now building up to 6 stories MUST BE SOLD WITH 1637 East Georgia or build 3 duplexes combining the 2 lots More detailsListed by Keller Williams Elite Realty
- Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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821 NANAIMO Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2576331
821 NANAIMO Street Vancouver V5L 4S8 $2,600,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2576331
- Bedrooms:
- 6
- Bathrooms:
- 4
- Floor Area:
- 2,032 sq. ft.
LAND ASSEMBLY. RM-12N ZONED DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. Courtyard stacked townhouses and rowhouses. Optional 4-storey low-rise apartment with minimum site frontage of 120 ft. Central Location, Lane Access, Recreation Nearby, Shopping Nearby and close to Public Transits to Downtown, Burnaby and North Shore. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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2067 E GEORGIA Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2576175
2067 E GEORGIA Street Vancouver V5L 2B9
$2,499,900Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2576175
- Bedrooms:
- 7
- Bathrooms:
- 5
- Floor Area:
- 3,638 sq. ft.
RARE OPPORTUNITY to own one of the LARGEST character homes in EAST VAN! With over 3,630sqft, 7 BEDROOMS & 4.5 BATHROOMS, including a top level NANNY SUITE & GARDEN LEVEL SUITE this charming home has enough space for the entire family to grow into. Lovingly restored & updated by the current owners over the last three decades it features a fully equipped CHEF’S KITCHEN, bright BREAKFAST ROOM, formal dining & family rooms, OVERSIZED PATIO, PRIVATE YARD and TONS OF STORAGE. Ideally situated on a QUIET TREE-LINED STREET, ACROSS FROM THE PARK & TEMPLETON SECONDARY you’re one block from the Adanac bike route and a short walk to THE DRIVE & HASTINGS SUNRISE. First Showings Thurs May 6th 5:30pm-7pm. More detailsListed by Oakwyn Realty Ltd. - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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2388 ADANAC Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2574174
2388 ADANAC Street Vancouver V5L 5A3
$2,400,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2574174
- Bedrooms:
- 4
- Bathrooms:
- 3
- Floor Area:
- 2,400 sq. ft.
LAND ASSEMBLY. RM-12N ZONED DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. Courtyard stacked townhouses and rowhouses. Optional 4-storey low-rise apartment with minimum site frontage of 120 ft. Central Location, Lane Access, Recreation Nearby, Shopping Nearby and close to Public Transits to Downtown, Burnaby and North Shore. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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839 NANAIMO Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2569893
839 NANAIMO Street Vancouver V5L 4S8
$2,200,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2569893
- Bedrooms:
- 3
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 2,000 sq. ft.
LAND ASSEMBLY. RM-12N ZONED DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. Courtyard stacked townhouses and rowhouses. Optional 4-storey low-rise apartment with minimum site frontage of 120 ft. Central Location, Lane Access, Recreation Nearby, Shopping Nearby and close to Public Transits to Downtown, Burnaby and North Shore. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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875 NANAIMO Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2567915
875 NANAIMO Street Vancouver V5L 4S8
$2,200,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2567915
- Bedrooms:
- 6
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 2,060 sq. ft.
LAND ASSEMBLY. RM-12N ZONED DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. Courtyard stacked townhouses and rowhouses. Optional 4-storey low-rise apartment with minimum site frontage of 120 ft. Central Location, Lane Access, Recreation Nearby, Shopping Nearby and close to Public Transits to Downtown, Burnaby and North Shore. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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865 NANAIMO Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2567936
865 NANAIMO Street Vancouver V5L 4S8
$2,200,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2567936
- Bedrooms:
- 6
- Bathrooms:
- 3
- Floor Area:
- 2,500 sq. ft.
LAND ASSEMBLY. RM-12N ZONED DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. Courtyard stacked townhouses and rowhouses. Optional 4-storey low-rise apartment with minimum site frontage of 120 ft. Central Location, Lane Access, Recreation Nearby, Shopping Nearby and close to Public Transits to Downtown, Burnaby and North Shore. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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855 NANAIMO Street in Vancouver: Hastings Land for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2577016
855 NANAIMO Street Vancouver V5L 4S8 $1,998,000Land Only- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2577016
Potential Land Assembly! Within the 'Grandview-Woodland Community Plan'. Potential for courtyard rowhouses, permit choice of use between commercial uses (which may include retail or service) for ground floor spaces. Also, allowing the ground floor of rowhouses to be built as lock-off suites. Height: up to 12.2m (40ft) (3.5 storeys). Density: up to 1.3 FSR. Require a minimum three-lot consolidation (27.4m/90 ft. minimum frontage). Also, potential option to build "T"-shaped four storey apartments on larger sites, with minimum frontage of 36.6 m (120ft.) More detailsListed by RE/MAX Real Estate Services - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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2173 - 2175 CAMBRIDGE Street in Vancouver: Hastings Multifamily for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2559253
2173 - 2175 CAMBRIDGE Street Vancouver V5L 1E4
$1,980,000Multifamily- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2559253
- Bedrooms:
- 6
- Bathrooms:
- 6
- Floor Area:
- 3,000 sq. ft.
“You drive by, and could never imagine what a jewel there is behind it!” BEST DESCRIBES 2173-2175 Cambridge St. The main house originally built in 1932. Zoning is multi residential RM3.15 years ago, completely gutted the house, rebuilding it from the foundation up! Everything is new except some of the original siding (not only with permits) but spending extra to ensure it was well built. The addition was built by a general contractor 8 years ago. NEW ROOF last November 2020. 2175 has 3 suites; 2x2 bedrooms, and a 1 bedroom. 2173 has two suites, a bachelor,& a one bedroom (both are small suites). The property for the most part has a high fence (6’) around it. It’s a very clean, well maintained, private property. Though there are 5 suites, it’s rare to see, or hear much going on. A block away is a bus stop, the bus comes every 10 minutes, and get you downtown in under 10 minutes. Commercial dr, Hastings & Nanaimo hub is walking distance. Good income now has potential to increase !! More detailsListed by RE/MAX Sabre Realty Group - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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1637 E GEORGIA Street in Vancouver: Hastings Duplex for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2573980
1637 E GEORGIA Street Vancouver V5L 2B1
$1,949,000Multifamily- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2573980
- Bedrooms:
- 4
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 2,096 sq. ft.
Huge Development opportunity to build within walking distance to the Commercial drive. Over 12000 square feet combined, hold now and build later or Start now building up to 6 stories MUST BE SOLD WITH 1623 East Georgia or build 3 Duplexes on the 2 lots More detailsListed by Keller Williams Elite Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
