[Burnaby] King and Park | 64,60,52,38,31 fl | Proposed
 

Council approved the Central Park Commons project at the site of the Telus Boot to go ahead with the 5 tower development.

No word on the proposed possible new skytrain stop at the site or whether this is still under consideration or in discussion between the city and the developer.



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Source :-


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/central-park-commons-telus-boot-burnaby-approved

A supermarket might work there, because it would probably be closer walking distance to Collingwood Village than the Safeway up on Kingsway.

Central Park Commons update. Pics taken on April 16.

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3777-3791 Kingsway - King and Park - June 3, 2026 - My photos
 

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The towers on the right look very 90s with the oversized grids - think Paris Place (Int'l Village) and Waterfront Centre.

From Google Maps it's hard to imagine how two towers squeeze in between the existing office tower and the Skytrain guideway.

Another angle

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Credit: Anthem

Seems like it’s time for a new thread….. i’ll try to make one if I have time

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. It's probably a good time to do it.

https://pub-burnaby.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=73390

I think they'll be a lot skinnier than shown in that rendering.

Feels like there should be a Skytrain station here if they're going to build all of this

They said they've considered it but seems like low odds that it ever gets built.

Also need to chance this to U/C :D

2026, May 21
 

I think if this project were to get fully built out, as well as the other Telus tower proposal project for the lot across the street where the building with the antennas on the SW corner sits gets built out, .....along with maybe one or two other towers or developments on some of those southern SFH lots - then you could have a legit justification for a skytrain stop grtting built there from a ridership point of view.

But as it stands I think the bigger roadblock might be technical/structural.

They need more of the skytrain line to be as horizontal and level as possible to locate a station at, than seems to be available on that stretch currently - especially with the need to accomodate the much longer Mark V's now.

That would mean having to completely reconstruct major sections of the guidway to make them horizontal and hoping you have enough length on either side to have an acceptable slope for the trains to be able to climb/descend to get to the station and be level.

I'm sure the study they did probably revealed all these issues, and while I won't say it's completely not do-able - the bigger question of how much it will cost you to actually be able to do it, is likely what kills the proposal.

And there's the added consideration that even if they somehow made the numbers work and decided to go ahead and do it, it would mean single-tracking on that section of the line for the better part of probably a few, if not several years as each side gets rebuilt to accomodate the station and the required slopes.

Which would be a major burden to have on the system in general - just a coiuple of stops away from the second-most busiest skytrain line station in the entire network.
I don't think either Translink or the city would ever be comfortable eating that level of disruption for that long.

On a different note, I just realized that when the phase 1 of this project gets completed (The 2 rental towers), despite the fact that they are the shortest towers in this development - they'll actually be the tallest towers (or at least the highest, thanks to the elevation of the site) in the area for quite a while until the strata towers get built.

And that's ironically, thanks to the Vancouver side limiting towers over the boundary to no being taller than the Boot - which itself is going to be laughably dwarfed in its own lot when this whole development gets built out

The guideway was designed for a station east of Boundary.

See post here quoting a response from TransLink:
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4867430&postcount=40

Oh, that's good to know.

(Although I have to wonder if it took into account the length that would be required for the longer Mark V trains)

I'm still not convinced they would be willing to bear the level of disruption to the line that such a project would entail, and for the length of time that such a disruption would be necessary.

Also doubtful is whether they'd proceed without significant financial contribution by the developers - in this case obviously Anthem and Crestpoint. And given the current state of things (market-wise and economic-health-wise), I doubt anyone will be wanting to add that extra cost to a project that's already going to be a tough sell, as is.

From Today's Globe & Mail:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business...ticle-burnaby-landmark-undergoes-reboot/

It's good to see that everyone is on board with at least the idea of a mid point station there,/.... and also that from a feasibility and technical standpoint, it's doable.

The big question now of course would be if it were to go ahead, who would foot a significant portion of the bill.

When the project was first proposed, the developer sounded quite enthusiastic about the prospect of a station there.
But that was before they had had discussions with the city (now we know where they stand), and it was also before Anthem came on board, and they might feel differently about paying for part of the cost of a station on top of the cost of the development. (or not (?)).

Personally I feel between Swanguard stadium, Central Park - including the northern portion that's used for concerts and events like the Canada Day fireworks spectacle, and these proposed developments in the vicinity aside from just this one, ....more than justify the argument for a station at that location and I hope it's something that gets strongly considered.

I doubt the developer is going to even want to pony up half of the likely $100M+ it'll cost to build a station here. Best case scenario is if they combine some costs by integrating it with the towers as much as possible. But Translink/the Province will need to make up whatever the difference is like they did with Capstan Way.