Brick warehouses on the old rail platform line Hamilton and Mainland Streets, their loading canopies still cantilevered over the sidewalk.
What Yaletown looks like
Yaletown sits between Homer Street, False Creek and Robson Street. Brick warehouses raised on platforms at rail car height line Hamilton Street and , their cantilevered canopies still sheltering the loading docks below. Curved glass residential towers rise directly behind the brick block, and round arched window heads mark the upper storeys of buildings such as the Yaletown Building on Mainland Street.
's patio, at Hamilton and Davie, sits under one of those canopies, screened in with glass panels for winter use. seats diners on a raised loading dock at Hamilton and Helmcken, inside a converted brick warehouse. Brix and Mortar occupies a corner building at Hamilton and Homer, its outdoor courtyard set back behind a low wall.
The , on the 1200 block of Hamilton Street, matches the footprint and cornice height of the warehouse blocks beside it. A circular paved plaza on Beatty Walk breaks up the tower blocks a few streets over, condo entrances framing it on both sides.
On Drake Street, the occupies the old CPR roundhouse, a red brick building with a peaked skylight roof. Its turntable is now an outdoor amphitheatre, and Engine No. 374, a preserved steam locomotive, sits on display inside a timber framed pavilion.
Shot in Yaletown
The series Stargate SG-1 used a pair of buildings on Mainland Street as Daniel Jackson's apartment across its first two seasons. Brix and Mortar played the restaurant Cardona's in the Netflix film To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, where Peter takes Lara Jean for their first date. The series The Magicians shot a chase scene down the same stretch of Mainland Street for its fourth season premiere, running from the sidewalk into the alley behind it. The unaired NBC pilot 17th Precinct filmed alley crime scene exteriors on Hamilton Street, with a stunt car turning off Hamilton onto Drake Street. The CBS series Tracker later used a Homer Street warehouse and the Quayside Marina, a few blocks over, to double for Seattle.
Stargate SG-1
Played Daniel Jackson's apartment
At 1152 Mainland Street, the tall red brick Yaletown Building played Daniel Jackson's apartment in the season two episode Holiday. Ma'chello, occupying Daniel's body, is dropped off by cab and explores the street before going in. A different building nearby played an earlier version of the apartment in the first season episode Fire and Water.
Fulton Market's meatpacking warehouses have the same rail height loading docks and cantilevered canopies as Hamilton Street, now fronting restaurants instead of freight. New office and residential towers rise directly behind the brick blocks, echoing the same brick and glass contrast. Fulton Market's canopies are steel rather than the ornamented ironwork here, so a close shot of the brackets gives it away. Try searching brick warehouses loading canopies now.
South Lake Union in Seattle, Washington
CBS's Tracker used a warehouse and marina here to play Seattle, adding the Space Needle digitally. South Lake Union has the same mix of low brick industrial buildings under new glass towers, without needing a matte extension. Keep the frame low enough that the towers here read as Seattle high rises, and avoid buildings tall enough to need a digital skyline. Try searching brick industrial buildings under towers now.
Portland's Pearl District converted the same kind of brick warehouses into lofts and restaurants, with new residential towers filling in the empty lots between them. The loading docks along Northwest 13th Avenue are raised the same way Hamilton Street's are. The Pearl District's warehouses run taller, five and six storeys, so a low angle keeps the scale honest. Try searching raised loading docks warehouses now.
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