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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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. Lord Nelson Elementary and Templeton Secondary school catchment. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty
- Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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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. Lord Nelson Elementary and Templeton Secondary school catchment. 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. Lord Nelson Elementary and Templeton Secondary school catchment. 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. Lord Nelson Elementary and Templeton Secondary school catchment. More detailsListed by RE/MAX Crest Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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831 NANAIMO Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2577523
831 NANAIMO Street Vancouver V5L 4S8
$2,200,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2577523
- Bedrooms:
- 5
- Bathrooms:
- 3
- Floor Area:
- 2,035 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. Lord Nelson Elementary and Templeton Secondary school catchment. 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. Lord Nelson Elementary and Templeton Secondary school catchment. 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
- Contact by Email
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1655 ADANAC Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2598033
1655 ADANAC Street Vancouver V5L 2C7
$1,950,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2598033
- Bedrooms:
- 6
- Bathrooms:
- 4
- Floor Area:
- 3,204 sq. ft.
Well cared for 4 suiter, 3 LEGAL. Same owner since 2002. Lovely mountain views from top 3 floors. Huge decks off main and 2nd floor. 3 suites on separate meters. On bike route. RM-4 zoning. Excellent development potential. 8 houses in a row for potential land assembly. Lane access. Blocks away from trendy breweries and Woodland Park. Nice investment all the way around. Good owner occupier as well. Good long term tenants. Steps away from Commercial Drive. Good neighbours. Viewings by appointment only. More detailsListed by Sutton Group-West Coast Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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1632 E PENDER Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2483270
1632 E PENDER Street Vancouver V5L 1W3
$1,888,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2483270
- Bedrooms:
- 4
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 2,255 sq. ft.
Attn Investors & Developers! RM4 sits on high elevation lot that is located in one of the most popular East Van neighborhood, tremendous opportunity to build a 1FSR duplex or wait till the neighbors to do a land assembly for higher density (check with city of Vancouver). Comes with Survey and drawings for a duplex! Call me for more details More detailsListed by Macdonald Realty Westmar - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
- Contact by Email
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2275 TURNER Street in Vancouver: Hastings House for sale (Vancouver East) : MLS®# R2569564
2275 TURNER Street Vancouver V5L 2A5
$1,800,000Residential Detached- Status:
- Active
- MLS® Num:
- R2569564
- Bedrooms:
- 4
- Bathrooms:
- 2
- Floor Area:
- 2,030 sq. ft.
Investor alert! Builders alert! High potential Vancouver East - Hastings area RS-1 49.50x66sqft 3,267sqft lot! Fantastic area for exponential growth hold now redevelop later. Over 2000 sqft interior space with ample front and rear gardens. Steps to Templeton Secondary School/ Templeton Pool/ Hastings community and Nanaimo Bus to Skytrain. Part of the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan! This property will not last long! Call for more information. More detailsListed by Sutton Group - Vancouver First Realty - Aedis Realty
- 604-688-8669
- 604-657-1111
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