About GrIID™
GrIId is built on this foundation, igniting the green innovation and infrastructure in urban industrial areas, close to dense urban populations to ensure the demand for goods and services can be met locally and sustainably, creating jobs and fostering social inclusion.
In the past, the FLATS was the 'operational heartbeat' of Vancouver's earliest, rail and waterway infrastructure and transportation, manufacturing, distribution, and the thousands of jobs that came with these activities as the city grew. Today the 450 acres that comprise the FLATS is home to over 6,000 diverse businesses, supporting 8,000 jobs. Much of the urban infrastructure, particularly rail, warehousing and manufacturing remain intact and are primed for transition into Vancouver's emerging equitable and circular economy.
To foster eco-industrial districts within our urban communities that support the global shift to a circular economy built on the following values:
Vancouver's
Green Industrial Innovation District
Located 1.7km's for downtown Vancouver, the regions' most densely populated urban core, GrIID. Vancouver is the regior's and province's first CIRCULAR EMPLOYMENT district.
Situated within the False Creek Flats (the FLATS), the GrIID occupies some the city's last remaining light industrial land, now at a critically low 7% of Vancouver's total land mass. Bringing together a community of local GREEN, CIRCULAR INNOVATORS and EMPLOYERS, INNOVATION the GrID is built upon a network of local CIRCULAR CLUSTERS, ranging from food production, share/reuse/repair services, and green manufacturing to arts production, sustainable waste management, materials recovery and exchange, and sustainable transportation and distribution models.
Vancouver GrIID Policy Guidelines
- Climate Emergency Action Plan (2020)
- Employment Lands/Economy Review (2020)
- Industrial Affordability (July 2019 - Cr Kirby-Yung)
- Circular Motion (Oct 2020 - Cr Wiebe)
- False Creek Flats Local Area Plan
- False Creek Flats Economic Development Strategy
- Shared Demonstration Sites
- C40 Cities
- Complete Communities
- Healthy City Strategies
- Food Security
- Zero Waste
- Metro Industrial Lands Strategy
- COVID Just and Equitable Recovery
