Downtown Eastside: Projects and Henriquez

downtown eastside: The York Theatre, located on Commercial Drive, which Henriquez Partners Architects helped revitilize, according to CBC. These projects are presented as case studies in the book, written by lawyer and activist Marya Cotten Gould. Children of Woodward's' Henriquez' has just released the new book Citizen City, which examines 10 progressive community-minded projects that his firm engaged in. Henriquez calls these projects "children of Woodward's" as they are similar in nature and were built after his firm involvement in the Woodwards building, which is a mixed-use building in the Downtown Eastside containing both market and social housing units. Another is the newly opened Immigrant Services Society of B.C Welcome House Centre, which has residential units with 138 beds for new government-sponsored refugees, as well as rooms for English language classes, employment and settlement programs and other services. "The citizen city is one that inclusive and includes a diverse group of socio-economic and religious people and genders," Henriquez said. Those projects include 250 Powell, a former remand centre that was turned into a building with 96 social housing units, and the York Theatre, a century-old community theatre that his firm revitalized. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.