2020 - Vancouver - Chinatown - Sunrise Market - 1 of 2
Sunrise Market has been a staple in Chinatown for decades. Today it is one of the few produce markets left. Twenty five years ago there were 20 now only 4 as the drug trade chased away customers, gentrification demolished many of the buildings and old age owners closing their business has changed the community.
Sunrise Market owner, Leslie Joe and his family, are using COVID-19 time to refresh the business premises.
Leslie and Susan Joe immigrated to Canada in 1956 and shortly after opened Sunrise Market.
Lion Hotel at 324 Powell Street is a retirement home today.
This 2094 street level mural by Cristina Peori celebrates the Powell Street area experience. It contains details such as the Komura building at 269 E. Powell St. with the adjacent diminutive buildings along Gore Street (now demolished) that reportedly housed the first Saki distillery in Canada. Next to this is the basement of York Hotel that had remnants of Japanese baths and an underground tunnel. Other details include equipment from Nye’s Foundry, and decorative details from buildings in the area.
2020 - Vancouver - Chinatown - Sunrise Market - 1 of 2
Sunrise Market has been a staple in Chinatown for decades. Today it is one of the few produce markets left. Twenty five years ago there were 20 now only 4 as the drug trade chased away customers, gentrification demolished many of the buildings and old age owners closing their business has changed the community.
Sunrise Market owner, Leslie Joe and his family, are using COVID-19 time to refresh the business premises.
Leslie and Susan Joe immigrated to Canada in 1956 and shortly after opened Sunrise Market.
Lion Hotel at 324 Powell Street is a retirement home today.
This 2094 street level mural by Cristina Peori celebrates the Powell Street area experience. It contains details such as the Komura building at 269 E. Powell St. with the adjacent diminutive buildings along Gore Street (now demolished) that reportedly housed the first Saki distillery in Canada. Next to this is the basement of York Hotel that had remnants of Japanese baths and an underground tunnel. Other details include equipment from Nye’s Foundry, and decorative details from buildings in the area.