Just next to downtown Vancouver, B.C. is something you don’t see everyday: a busy farmers’ market right next to a concrete plant – in this case, Granville Island. It’s a neighborhood that combines retail, manufacturing, and creative ventures, all in one spot. It’s disjunctive, and eclectic, and layered with different kinds of activities and different kinds of people who found ways to work together.

And that’s why we like it, and why we really like Interbay so much.

For the past ten years, the Freehold Group and our neighbors have imagined Seattle’s Interbay district to have a similar feel. Our combined vision for the area is to create spaces with vitality. Places for people to meet over breakfast or shop while their kids are practicing in the playfields, to find great local food and neighborhood restaurants for lunch and dinner, to visit the vet or get a hair cut. Unique and beautiful places – some modern, some old – where creativity and productivity happens.

And so far, so good. With locally-based businesses from successful craftsmen making world-class musical instruments to high-tech machinery turning out commercial cutting surfaces, Denali Fitness, a software design firm, video producers, the Seattle Storm WNBA headquarters, and more, Interbay is now home to some really innovative people who are doing some really interesting stuff. It’s a place where people feel a strong sense of community.

Big things are happening here, a step at a time. And we love the mix.