Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant East: With an idyllic name and coveted hilly location, Mount Pleasant finds its epicentre at Main and Kingsway Streets, where shops, community centres, performing arts venues, and restaurants all commingle. Mount Pleasant is divided into East and West. The total area’s boundaries are quite far-reaching, starting at Cambie and 16^th Avenue, running just south for Fairview and False Creek and east Clark Dr. Legions of indie artists and musicians, young entrepreneurs, and families make their homes here, and buildings include a number of Vancouver Craftsman-style bungalows intermixed with apartment buildings and live-work spaces. Many lucky residents are treated to sweeping views of the downtown skyline and North Shore mountains. In a nod to its heritage days, when the area was known as Brewery Creek due to a river running through it, there are a number of walkable neighbourhood breweries in this fun-loving community. 

Mount Pleasant West: Compared to its eastern counterpart, Mount Pleasant (West) is a small, close-knit neighbourhood on the east side of Cambie Street, between West 5th and 16th. This strong community plays host to a handful of tech start-ups and burgeoning businesses as well as appealing examples of public art (much of which is a result of the annual Vancouver Mural Festival) and green spaces. John Rogers Park is the biggest in the area and offers brilliant views of downtown and the North Shore mountains, and also hosts a community garden. Highly walkable, Mount Pleasant (West) benefits from its proximity to lively Main Street, a stone’s throw away, and close to the Cambie Street Bridge—a main artery to the downtown core—and the Canada Line SkyTrain/B-Line bus routes to YVR Airport and the University of British Columbia, respectively.