My new Vancouver magazine feature has landed on news stands and online. It’s covers the explosion of Gastown’s restaurant scene:

Gastown isn’t without hourly reminders that it’s part of the Downtown Eastside. It is still full of alleys littered with needles, used condoms, and the detritus of shattered lives. But a pincer movement is slowly enveloping it, and restaurants—as so often in cases of urban renewal—are the advance guard. Gastown is the concentration point, and the encircling arms of gentrification are snaking through Railtown to the northeast and Chinatown to the southeast.

And so on. It’s a lengthy read. Take a look here.