Strathcona Event Promotion

by Lee

There is always a lot going on in Strathcona and in life. Back in May, this blog started with the greatest of intentions to share the love for the Strathcona neighbourhood. Some posts were managed, though not very many. I can imagine that most Realtors are running around far from computers and find little time left available to write or post anything. So what now?

LiveInStrathcona.com is what now.

It's all about who you know. A Strathcona neighbour shows Rick a new way of doing things. Rick gets excited. It is after all about his neighbourhood and neighbours, and for his neighbourhood and neighbours. So Rick the Realtor, and Riel the tech-enigma create a beautiful thing.

Last week the LiveInStrathcona.com extended an invitation to the Strathcona Resident's Association (SRA) to utilize the site to promote and communicate to the Strathcona area residents. I love it when business recognizes the value in supporting community. What better example.

SRA was hosted by Gaff Gallery, thanks Gabriel, and SWARM was mentioned. An arts event with Gaff Gallery also one of the significant venues on the event schedule. It was unfortunate that we still had some kinks and bugs to work out as the final components of the site were coming together. Otherwise, we would have loved to promote the Strathcona, East Vancouver, and Gaff Gallery event. We're almost there now, and are we ever excited!!

Gaff Gallery let us know what a huge hit the SWARM event was and also notified us of a fundraiser event coming in October. We're watching now to see how well Gabriel is able to add the event to the Strathcona Events Forum. I'm calling it user testing. ;)

We'll have more for you soon, and if you have an event you would like to promote, let us know! This site is for everyone in Strathcona.

Renegade Art on the Water

 

This was an interesting site to come across when riding my bike along the sea wall the other morning. I biked right by it on my way out, but on the way back it caught my eye.

A group of people (it couldn't have been one person) had built rock statues on the shore line. Stacking hundreds of rocks on the beach in a weird sort of cross between mysterious crop circles and renegade native art.

It was a very beautiful, if somewhat chilling piece that got me to get off the bike and look at it from several angles. I had one of my low end camera's with me and shot this and several others of the piece.

Props to whomever it was, it was very nice.

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.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON THE GLOBE AND MAIL SITE

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?