A high-density, mixed-use redevelopment aims to revamp Burnaby’s Brentwood Town Centre district.
Bosa Development is working with the City of Burnaby on plans for a mixed-use, multi-tower project on a 3.27-acre site at the northwest corner of Lougheed Highway and Willingdon Avenue, across from Brentwood Town Centre.
The development, called Brentwood West, would include four mixed-use towers containing more than 1,400 housing units — featuring a blend of condominiums, market and non-market rental units — and over 600,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space.
“Given its strategic location within the Brentwood Town Centre, this area’s redevelopment presents a unique opportunity to create not only a transit-oriented development, but an integrated, vibrant, and walkable mixed-use community in the heart of the Brentwood Town Centre,” reads a city staff report.
Bosa Development owns three parcels on the development site, located at 4430-4488 Halifax Street and 1801 Willingdon Avenue. The remaining parcels are currently held by three separate owners. The parcels are currently occupied by low-rise office buildings, retail buildings and a Petro Canada gas station.
The northernmost parcels of Brentwood West are owned by Bosa Developments, covering the first phase at 4430-4488 Halifax Street at the northwest corner of the site, and the second phase at 1801 Willingdon Avenue at the northeast corner.
“It is recognized that redevelopment of this key area requires a concept and vision that delivers not only superior architectural expression, but acts as a model for employment growth, sustainability, urban design, and public amenity for the Brentwood Town Centre,” says the report.
The first phase would see the construction of a single condominium tower above a retail and townhouse base, with an adjoining six-storey non-market rental housing podium.
Plans for the second phase, to the east, include a signature mixed-use high-rise tower containing market rental housing above an office and retail podium, as well as permanently closing a portion of Buchanan Street to create a public plaza.
The third and fourth phases, located at 1967 Willingdon Avenue and 1925 Willingdon Avenue, south of the plaza, would include the final two towers containing condominiums, market and non-market rental homes above an office and retail podium.
“The size, location, and orientation of the phases are influenced by such factors as vehicular access, parking capacity, desired massing, site servicing requirements, and critically by land ownership patterns,” says the report. “It is anticipated that each phase would be brought forward as a single, or related grouping of site specific rezoning applications.”
