Harbourside, North Vancouver: Homes for Sale, Prices, Schools and Waterfront Life

Harbourside lies on flat ground beside Burrard Inlet, between Mackay Creek on the west and Mosquito Creek on the east. A Canadian National rail line runs along its north side, and Marine Drive is north of the tracks. Harbourside Drive crosses the middle from east to west, and Fell Avenue comes in from the north over a bridge.

From the early 2000s until 2023 this was a place of work. The City's 2022 plan for Kings Mill Walk Park describes office buildings of three and four storeys and the Northshore Auto Mall, with Bodwell High School on the northwest side of the park and the Burrard Yacht Club at its southeast corner. The first buildings with homes stand at the east end, and three more phases are planned on the land between the street and the park.

In our view, Harbourside suits a buyer who wants a new home on level ground, a waterfront path beside the building and a short trip to Lonsdale Quay. The trade-offs are building work for years, few shops inside the neighbourhood today and a rail line between home and Marine Drive. A buyer who wants a yard, a quiet crescent and a school on the same street should read the pages for Norgate and Pemberton Heights.

The City's park plan places Harbourside within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. It records villages on the inlet that date back 3,000 years, one of them Eslhá7an beside Mosquito Creek.

A sawmill gave the park its name. The plan says Malcolm King started the M.B. King Lumber Company mill at the foot of Fell Avenue in 1933, and that the mill did its best business in the 1950s. After Donald King died in 1961, the mill and its land were sold to Fullerton Lumber, which sorted and stored logs. Fullerton closed in 1972 and pumped sand and gravel onto the mudflat, ground that the tide covered and uncovered, to make land that could be sold. That filled land is today's Harbourside.

The fill stood empty for three decades. Concert Properties bought it in 1996, according to the same plan, and the City changed its land use rules to allow business uses, light industry and car dealerships. The Harbourside Business Park followed in 1998. The auto mall opened in the early 2000s, and Kings Mill Walk Park was laid out then as a public benefit of the project.

Homes came last. In 2014 the City approved a plan in four phases for homes, offices and shops on 12 acres beside the park. The park plan describes 17 buildings with 900 homes, the tallest 28 metres high. Work on the first phase began in 2023 on the lot at the east end, next to the yacht club. The City's project page, read on October 11, 2026, calls the project North Harbour and names Concert Properties as the company behind it. The page says three of the four buildings in that phase had received occupancy permits and that one of the four is a rental building.

On a weekday Harbourside fills with people who work in its offices and car dealerships and with students of Bodwell High School. In our experience, evenings and weekends are calmer. The cafes on this page's map are Harbourside Cafe, Thomas Haas Chocolates and Vomero Coffee House.

For groceries, the map shows Choices Markets and Save-On-Foods as the closest supermarkets, with Fresh St. Market farther away. The park plan lists 290,000 square feet for offices and shops inside the new neighbourhood. Ask which shops have opened before you rely on having one close by.

Parking changes while the work continues. The City says the rules in the area change often, and that the public lot at 925 Harbourside Drive is free for the first four hours.

Kings Mill Walk Park runs along the water and north beside Mackay Creek. The City's plan gives its size as 28,727 square metres and lists what it had in 2022: open grass with picnic tables and benches, a beach volleyball court and an area where dogs may run off leash. The ground is flat, so the view across the inlet to the Vancouver skyline is open along the whole shore.

The park will change. Council endorsed a new plan for it in February 2022, with a play area for all ages, a public washroom, an off-leash area of 1,600 square metres with a separate space for small and shy dogs, picnic shelters and a plaza with a view deck at the foot of Fell Avenue. In May 2024 council adopted a bylaw to borrow $4.3 million for the work. The shore will be raised first. The City says the park will close during that work for an estimated two years, and it had set no dates by October 11, 2026. The part south of Harbourside Place has been closed since September 2023.

The Spirit Trail passes through the park. Going west, it climbs the Harbourside West Overpass, a bridge 280 metres long for people on foot, on bicycles and in wheelchairs, and comes down at West 1st Street and Mackay Avenue. Going east, it enters Squamish Nation land at Bewicke Avenue beside a gateway of red hands, follows the water through the Nation's Mosquito Creek Marina and continues to Waterfront Park and Lonsdale Quay.

Both creeks carry fish. The park plan lists chum, coho and pink salmon, cutthroat trout and steelhead in Mackay Creek. Bewicke Park is on the waterfront east of the yacht club.