Steveston

Steveston Village, Richmond

Steveston Village is a historic fishing village and and a popular tourist destination because of its rich heritage character and many interesting places for tourists to visit.

Post-war Steveston Village developed along with Richmond into a residential suburb from a fishing village and farming community. Since the 1970s the community, which remains an active fishing port, has developed its heritage character and its waterfront to attract business and tourism.

Today, Steveston is still very much a small fishing village. Steveston Harbour is the home to Canada's largest commercial fishing fleet - home base to more than 600 seiners, gill-netters, trawlers and other vessels that line the docks.

Steveston Village & Tourism

The village boasts over 350 businesses and services to accommodate its growing population. Steveston Village has become a popular place to visit and live. On sunny days, visitors flock to Steveston's waterfront boardwalks to enjoy the scenery, people and food.

Whale watching is a popular tourist attraction for many visitors to Richmond. Steveston harbour now is a the gateway shuttling boatloads of tourists and locals out to the Gulf of Georgia to watch orca (killer whales), seals and bold eagles.

New developments in Steveston greatly expanded the village, and many new residents choose to live in the Steveston neighborhood for it's proximity to the river and the very unique village character. Many home buyers are attracted to the older townhouse complexes in Steveston Village e,g, Mariners Village and Westwind - Kingfisher RD.

Over the years, older homes with 66 feet frontage like the one at the bottom left was rezoned into 2 narrower 33' lot frontage and 2 new homes built for resale by builders. Each new home like this in Steveston Village can be sold at $850,000 or more. Here are the Steveston North, Steveston Village and Steveston South detached homes available for sale.

Steveston Area Condos

Some of the condos around Steveston area are:

The Village -4280 Moncton St, London Station - 6233 London Rd, 6077 London Rd, Imperial Landing - 4211 Bayview St, Britannia - 12911 Railway Ave, 12931 Railway Ave The Villa @ South Cove - 5800 Andrews Rd and River Reach - 5700 Andrews Rd.

Steveston Park & Community Center

Garry Point, a very popular park in Richmond is located at the southwest of Richmond, is the major park in Steveston. This is a favourite park for outdoor activities like kite flying, walking, jogging and biking along the west dyke trail by residents living in Steveston Village. Steveston community center at Moncton St/No. 1 Rd is one of Richmond's community center that provide a wide variety of programs and services to the residents of Steveston.

If you are looking for current homes available for sale in the Steveston Village area, kindly contact me at 604-721-4817 or email me.

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