Granville Island

Or sweaty workout people.

Another question for you, and Alexa went down to Granville Island to ask this question.

Would you rather lose all of your followers on social media for a year or your phone for a year? Here's what they said on Granville Island.

I'd rather lose all

my

How come?

I have a small amount of followers.

So, Alexa, you were asking the question on Granville Island, how would you respond? Would you rather lose your followers for a year or your phone for a year?

I'm great.

I actually, so for the Writers Fest, I'm staying in Granville Island.

And I went and bought some sausage today.

Oh, at the little market.

Well, hilariously.

Okay.

So it's in Granville Island at Performance Works.

Yeah.

It's time for opening statements.

So Lonsdale Key Market opens three weeks before Expo in April of 1986 with 80 retailers, including Vancouver mainstays at the time, like the Cheshire Cheese Inn and Zigzag, a focus on a lot of food vendors, the iconic giant queue on the outside, and a design from Norm Hodson, who designed the Granville Island Market a decade earlier.

Steve, this area of Vancouver is a real market boom.

The Vancouver Sun did a story earlier in that year called Will Market Mania Pay Off? Eight Island Clones Hope to Cash In.

And it feels like it has some soul to it.

Yeah, just the wandering around that it's not set up quite as bifurcated as places.

Are we wrong not to include the OG Granville Island market in this ranking, Steve? I think conceptually...

because people have asked and it's like i think conceptually it's just too integrated into granville island as a whole whereas it's a specific destination that you're going to for the entire island and not like here where i feel you can just go in and appreciate it isolated from the shipyards

But at least two of the three is pretty good.

So I have something from Granville Island Brewing.

This is a local brewery.

And this is a Kitsilano Juicy IPA.

Nice.

I have a second beer here in case I run low on my first.

This is from the same brewery as before, Granville Island.

And this is just a West Coast IPA, the Brockton West Coast IPA.

Yes, Rachel, Lorne, Dirksen's out there now harpooning killer whales as they swim through the...

They're on the menu on Granville Island now, I think.

Or

Dirksen's beast.

Even kids are doing it.

So what is the next step here? Are we prepared to take it? And we are going to talk about the future of Granville Island.

Of course, it's a local gem.

Everyone loves it.

You got to hold up the buildings and the infrastructure with as much as you possibly can.

So what kind of work then does Gravel Island need?

Well, for a long time, like since the 1970s, when government threw millions of dollars at Granville Island to launch it, for a long time, we have not been able to put any money into the buildings and infrastructure.

It's just been operating this amazing place.

If I want to progress farther through the Federation, then I'm submitting artworks.

We have a studio on Granville Island.

I've been there.

It's fantastic.

I'm exhibiting.

And active, you have to gain points through that? Yes,

local shows, but also the Federation shows on Granville Island.

Yeah, I was down Granville Island, oh, maybe a year and a half ago.