Grandview-Woodland — Daily Life — Shops, Cafés, and the Village High Street

Daily life concentrates on Commercial Drive between Venables and Broadway — restaurants, cafés, delis, independent retail, the seasonal Commercial Drive Italian Day festival, and the strongest local-business density in East Vancouver. C-2 commercial 3-4 storey mixed-use along the spine; RT-5 / RT-6 character-house side-streets retain pre-1940 fabric. Grandview Park at Commercial + Charles is the central public space.

Trout Lake / John Hendry Park + the Trout Lake Community Centre anchor the southeastern amenity. Britannia Community Centre + Britannia Secondary's co-located campus anchors the north — the largest community-services complex in Vancouver. The combination of Italian-Canadian commercial heritage + multi-community accretion + dense small-business retail is the structural feature that has held Commercial Drive's character through five decades of redevelopment pressure.