Globe and Mail article on Strathcona

Strathcona cracks $1-million ceiling
Once seedy neighbourhood now in big demand; a waiting list for homes

KERRY GOLD
July 6, 2007

A house in Strathcona just sold for more than $1-million, a record-setting first.

It's a sign of the times for the city's oldest residential neighbourhood that had been largely ignored by home buyers because of its proximity to the seedy downtown east side.

Nowadays, an area where residents once carried out nightly patrols to combat prostitution has become one of the city's most desirable places to live.

Realtor Rick Stonehouse, who operates from his Strathcona home office, says he has a waiting list of 10 clients looking to buy there. He is encouraged by the recent quick sale of 885 E. Georgia, a 114-year-old heritage house that went for $1,050,000. Other than a slightly wider lot size, it's a fairly typical house for Strathcona, where three-bedroom houses on 25' wide lots now average about $900,000.

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Interview with Rick Stonehouse about Prior Street.

We've been playing around with some new media ideas on how to get more info out of Rick's brain and into a format that people can benefit from.

Here is an interview that we had about the future of Strathcona and in partucular, the possibilities of change on Prior Street.

Just press the pink play button on the player below to get some the inside scoop.


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Photo Scavenger Hunt

I'd like a little feedback on an idea that I've been batting around for a few days now.

I've been trying to think of fun ways to get the word out about our new site - Live In Strathcona

One of the things I thought of was a local community scavenger hunt.

My thought was that instead of the old "find a box under the bench" sort of scavenger hunt, we could do a photo scavenger hunt.

So, a list of clues about specific features of Strathcona would be made up and then a time limit would be placed on the event - all entries are due by ....

Contestants would have to take pictures of the submitted clues and the first one to get them all right would win (gotta figure out what, talk to some of the local shops, etc.. about a sponsored prize)

Any feedback on this idea would be great. What do you thing? Sound like Fun?