Granville Entertainment District

The Granville Entertainment District is an area in Downtown Vancouver known for its vast assortment of bars, danceclubs and nightlife. The entertainment district centred on a seven-block stretch of the Granville Mall and immediately surrounding streets.

The Vancouver city council originally came up with the concept of having most of the downtown's drinking establishments centred in one area in the late 1990s. This was in part to help the city rid its image as the "No Fun City". However, the area has become known for its high number of violent incidents. Due to this and the increase of gang activity in the city many establishments are now participants in the Barwatch program.

Prior to the establishment of the current Entertainment District, in what is now the Granville Mall was home to a number of movie theatres, which gave that stretch of Granville Street the nickname "Theatre Row" for many years. The closure of most of those theatres over the years (and the conversion of some of them into their current nightclub forms), however, has left just one cinema complex still operating in the former Theatre Row area as of July 2007.

Venues in the Granville Entertainment District

Caprice
Cellar
Club 816/The World (Afterhours club)
Commodore Ballroom
Barcelona
Forum Sports Bar
Furniture Warehouse
Ginger 62
Gorg-O-Mish (Afterhours club)
Granville Room
Joseph Richard
The Orpheum Theatre
Republic
The Roxy
Serontonin (Afterhours club)
Sip Lounge
Space Lounge
Speakeasy
Tonic
Venue
Vogue Theatre
Yale