“It’s been probably a decade in the making, and certainly the transformation of Lower Lonsdale has been a couple of decades in the making,” City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan tells Daily Hive Urbanized. “That’s obviously really nice to be recognized for all the hard work over the years to make this happen.”
Opening of The Shipyards on North Vancouver’s Lonsdale waterfront on July 20, 2019. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
Buchanan says that since The Shipyards opened in 2019, it’s only grown “more and more popular,” noting that it’s one of the largest covered spaces in Canada.