Yaletown is an area of Downtown Vancouver, Canada, bordered by False Creek and Robson and Homer Streets.
Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the 1986 World's Fair it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.
The site was sold to Hong Kong–based developer Li Ka-shing, setting in motion the redevelopment process which continues to this day.
During the latter years of the dot com boom in the late 1990s, these streets housed Vancouver's "multimedia gulch", similar to the SOMA area of San Francisco.
Spilling around the central core of Hamilton and Mainland Streets, most other architecture in Yaletown is newly built on the old derelict yards, the vast majority in a uniform glass and concrete high-rise style.