Hastings-SunriseBritish Columbia

Hastings-Sunrise is a City of Vancouver local-area neighbourhood in the northeast corner of the city, bounded roughly by Burrard Inlet (north), 1st Avenue (south), Nanaimo Street (west), and Boundary Road (east). It contains Hastings Park / the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) site — a 162-acre regional park and exhibition grounds that the multi-decade Hastings Park Master Plan (Park Board, City of Vancouver, adopted 2011) is converting from industrial exhibition use into a mixed-use park, amphitheatre, Empire Fields stadium, and adjacent cultural anchors including the Italian Cultural Centre and the operating Hastings Racecourse.

The western edge of Hastings-Sunrise — running from Nanaimo Street east to roughly Penticton/Renfrew Street and from 1st Avenue north to Burrard Inlet — is the most established part of the neighbourhood, with mature streets of pre-1960 detached on standard 33-foot Vancouver lots, the Italian Cultural Centre at 3075 Slocan Street, and the southern feeder lines into Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive. This is also where the Hastings commercial corridor begins — the East Hastings stretch from Nanaimo east to Renfrew, anchored by the Italian Cultural Centre and a long-standing run of delis, cafés, bakeries, and family-run storefronts — and where gentrification pressure first arrived in the 2010s. Pricing tends to be the highest sub-area within Hastings-Sunrise for detached.

The Central / Hastings Park sub-area wraps the 162-acre PNE site — home to the annual Fair at the PNE, Empire Fields, the Pacific Coliseum, and the operating Hastings Racecourse thoroughbred track (live-racing season traditionally late spring through early fall, Friday to Sunday plus selected weekday cards). Properties here trade two competing externalities: the master-planned park amenity upgrade (greenway expansion, the Sanctuary, urban farm, amphitheatre redevelopment) and the live-event noise impact during Fair season (mid-August through Labour Day) plus year-round Coliseum and Empire Fields events. A weekday-evening walk during a PNE event tells you almost everything; the seasonal event calendar is on pne.ca and easy to check at the start of an underwrite.

For schools, the dominant secondary catchment is Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive — opened 1927, with the Templeton Mini School running as an application-based enriched program. Southern-edge addresses near 1st Avenue may fall into the Vancouver Technical (Van Tech) catchment at 2600 East Broadway. Elementary feeders include Hastings (3096 Hastings Street), Lord Nelson (2235 Kitchener Street), Franklin, and A.R. Lord; the exact feeder varies by sub-area. If a particular school matters, the attendance area is set by address and easy to confirm with the VSB.

There is no direct SkyTrain station inside the Hastings-Sunrise local area, and none planned in the near term. Renfrew-Collingwood (south across 1st Avenue) is served by Renfrew, Rupert, and Joyce-Collingwood stations on the Expo Line. Hastings-Sunrise transit commuters use the E Hastings bus corridor and typically face 30 to 40 minute door-to-door to downtown, versus 20 to 25 from Renfrew-Collingwood. This is one of the structural reasons Hastings-Sunrise detached carries a lower per-square-foot benchmark.

The Hastings-Sunrise stretch of E Hastings (Nanaimo east to Boundary) is a different commercial environment than the East Hastings stretch in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) west of Clark Drive — the two are 4 to 5 km apart. The Hastings-Sunrise stretch is a run of independent small-business retail — delis, bakeries, cafés, grocers, and restaurants — anchored by the Italian Cultural Centre. It is a working-class, family-oriented, daytime-active commercial street. The 'Sunrise' portion of the neighbourhood — the north slope running from East Hastings down toward Burrard Inlet, including New Brighton Park and the McGill Street / Wall Street corridor — is where view-pricing concentrates. North-facing lots above McGill Street can carry meaningful Burrard Inlet + North Shore mountain view premiums.

Vancouver implemented Bill 44 SSMUH through R1-1 zoning (effective 2024), permitting up to six units on most standard 33-foot lots subject to lot-frontage and servicing rules. R1-1 covers most of the Hastings-Sunrise residential grid; the C-2 commercial zoning along E Hastings carries its own mid-rise mixed-use entitlement; RT-2 character pockets add heritage-design overlays. Most standard detached lots now carry implicit multiplex optionality.

The dominant secondary catchment is Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive — opened 1927, with the Templeton Mini School running as an application-based enriched program. Southern-edge addresses near 1st Avenue may fall into the Vancouver Technical (Van Tech) catchment at 2600 East Broadway.

Elementary feeders include Hastings (3096 Hastings Street), Lord Nelson (2235 Kitchener Street), Franklin, and A.R. Lord; the exact feeder varies by sub-area. If a particular school matters, the attendance area is set by address and easy to confirm with the VSB. Mini School and program-of-choice application windows are published separately by VSB.

The East Hastings commercial corridor (Nanaimo east to Boundary) is the day-to-day spine — independent small-business retail (delis, bakeries, cafés, grocers, restaurants) anchored by the Italian Cultural Centre at 3075 Slocan Street. Working-class, family-oriented, daytime-active commercial street. The eastern end approaching Boundary gets quieter and more industrial at night.

The 162-acre Hastings Park / PNE site anchors the regional event amenity — annual Fair, Empire Fields stadium, the Pacific Coliseum, the operating Hastings Racecourse, the Sanctuary + amphitheatre + urban farm phasing in under the Park Board's multi-decade Hastings Park Master Plan (2011). New Brighton Park (outdoor pool, beach, the Cassiar Connector to Highway 1) anchors the northern Sunrise edge.

No direct SkyTrain station inside Hastings-Sunrise, and none planned in the near term. Renfrew-Collingwood (south across 1st Avenue) is served by Renfrew, Rupert, and Joyce-Collingwood stations on the Expo Line. Hastings-Sunrise transit commuters use the E Hastings bus corridor — typical door-to-door downtown is 30 to 40 minutes, versus 20 to 25 from Renfrew-Collingwood.

The Highway 1 / Cassiar Connector at the eastern edge provides freeway access for car commuters — downtown Vancouver is 15–25 minutes off-peak via 1st Avenue or Hastings; SFU (Burnaby Mountain) is 15–25 minutes east; Highway 1 north to North Shore via the Iron Workers / Second Narrows is 10–20 minutes. The structural lack of SkyTrain access is part of why Hastings-Sunrise detached carries a lower per-square-foot benchmark than equivalent Renfrew-Collingwood inventory.