A corner unit at Richmond’s Union Square Shopping Centre is already back on the market, and the last tenant only opened a few months ago.
A Noms Mag community member (Alan) spotted a for-sale sign posted on the window of Hey Yearn Restaurant, which took over the corner unit in February.
The unit is listed at $298,000 on Realtor.ca as a rare opportunity for a corner unit inside the busy Union Square Shopping Centre.
The listing flags 1,680 square feet of space, 56 seats, and a “brand newly renovated” interior with a new full commercial kitchen, two minutes from Capstan Skytrain Station.
We covered Hey Yearn back in January 2026, when fresh signage went up promising Wuzhi Clay Pot, a regional Henan specialty from Jiaozuo built around earthenware-cooked dishes like fermented bean curd pork, beef brisket, duck feet, and pork intestines.
The interior had just been redone with green booths and detailing, and a business hours sign was already on the front door.
Hey Yearn opened shortly after in mid February.
Less than half a year later, the corner is empty again.
This particular unit has cycled through tenants unusually fast.
It was originally Pho 37’s first Richmond home before they relocated to the larger Remix unit in Union Square, then sat empty for an extended stretch, then became B House for a while.
Once B House left, Pho 37 reopened in this unit, somehow having two restaurants in the plaza.
It never got the same interest as its original iteration so Pho 37 left again.
And now Hey Yearn’s attempt didn’t work out and the unit is back up for sale with the kitchen still essentially new.
For a corner spot in one of the busiest Chinese plazas in Richmond, the turnover speed has started to look less like coincidence and more like a pattern.
The wider Union Square corner is also moving fast on both sides of the ledger.
Grandma Liu Hot Pot has shut down, and Ban Bu Xian has relocated to Alexandra Road, the densest Chinese restaurant strip in Richmond.
The plaza, locally nicknamed Diabetes Plaza by the Chinese community for its dense bubble tea, dessert, and bakery lineup, keeps trading sit-down concepts for sweets and drinks.
On the inbound side, Molly Tea and Alfa Tea, which took over the old Macu Tea unit, have already opened.
Unique Bakery has just opened its second Richmond location at the plaza.
Lao Lao, a Sichuan braised food and pork trotter soup spot, also has signs up next door to Pot o Yogurt for a coming-soon opening.
For now, the 1101 corner is the one with the for-sale sign. The kitchen is brand new and the tenant slot is open.
Whoever picks up the listing inherits a fully built-out room in a high-traffic plaza, with a recent track record of operators who could not make it stick.
Hey Yearn joins the list of recently closed food spots in Richmond like First Bite, Fok Po Tong, and Bubble Queen.
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Address: 1101 – 8328 Capstan Way, Richmond, BC