The prolific team from “Changing Vancouver” and “Changing City Updates” – John Atkin and Andy Coupland – have launched another website: “What was there before: Recent Vancouver before and after.”
If you’re looking at a recent development, and wondered what it replaced, check out our new blog where we’re posting recent ‘than and now images’.
We’re slowly backfilling it with pictures that we’ve collected over the past eight or nine years, and there will be more to be added in future as we have a selection of ‘before’ images stockpiled.
Here’s a sample:
Sterling Place is in the Mount Pleasant industrial area, just off West Broadway and overlooking Jonathon Rogers Park. It’s located in an area where for many years there were homes – there are still several cluster of houses dating back a century or more nearby. On the east-west Avenues they’re slowly disappearing, being replaced by new industrial and commercial uses. Here’s an example where a small cottage has been replaced with a 5-storey industrial and office building, now being fitted out as a Production Studio by one of the city’s new media and entertainment companies.
before image 2009; after image 2011
Well there goes a whole bunch of my time. I found this engrossing. Some buildings I could remember, others not so much. Thanks