A rezoning proposal for 5163-5187 Joyce Street near the Joyce-Collingwood Skytrain station drew a lot of interest in 2021. Covered in the Tyee as Vancouver’s Filipino Heart, attention has been on the cluster of six small businesses facing displacement.
We held an online event in December 2021 about the food hub where two guests shared the importance of the Joyce food hub as a significant place of community service, cultural experience and identity. Claire from Slice Mango Collective and Bennet, the owner of one of the businesses affected, shared some of the stories they felt were important to consider when planning decisions are made about this area.
To follow up, Shaping Vancouver: The Joyce Food Hub, will consider those stories about sense of self and community identity in the context of how neighbourhood and city planning are carried out.
