Rupert's Place

Rupert's Place was one of those plain no nonsense little commercial shops that was located in Lower Mount Pleasant. Although Rupert's didn't look like much it did have a bit of a story. If you looked through the front door you would have seen the place was pretty messy inside. Messy to the point that it looked as though someone had actually ransacked the place. I guess that's just how they rolled at Rupert's Place. A search on the name brought up a comment on Yelp that Rupert was not the name of the shop's owner but rather the name of his cat!





























In the last few years there's been a huge commercial real estate boom in the Lower Mount Pleasant area with a big influx of fashion and high tech businesses (Hootsuite) as well as many new developments. The area is bounded by Main Street on the East to Cambie on the West, and from 2nd Avenue on the North to Broadway on the South. It's now nicknamed Mount Pixel. With all the new interest in the area rents and leases are starting to skyrocket and many of the old traditional service and supply businesses are disappearing being soon replaced by the more upscale. Sometime in early 2016 Rupert's closed it's doors and the space has now been taken over by a new bakery.