Surrey Updates

[Hotwax]

My picture of 10611 150 Street from Friday, 29-May-2026:


Enlarge | https://storeys.com/wall-financial-centre-surrey-phase-one/

[Lexus]

Feels very random and out of place, but still a great start for Guildofd!
Tons of room for future developments!!!

Untitled by Lexus LX 700, on Flickr

Untitled by Lexus LX 700, on Flickr

Untitled by Lexus LX 700, on Flickr

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Lexus

Feels very random and out of place, but still a great start for Guildofd!
Tons of room for future developments!!!


Untitled by Lexus LX 700, on Flickr

I know there were tentative plans to build towers on the mall parking lots north of 104th shown in this pic (presumably the rec centre would get rebuilt as part of the deal). No idea if that's still on the books but i hope so.

[mcj]

DailyHive article for a 292-ft-tall, 31-storey, mixed-use tower in Fleetwood. All images below from the article:

[officedweller]

7086 184 St., Surrey

25-storey tower proposed for SkyTrain's future Hillcrest-184 Street Station in Surrey
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/7086-184-street-surrey-tower


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/7086-184-street-surrey-tower


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/7086-184-street-surrey-tower

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by officedweller

7086 184 St., Surrey

25-storey tower proposed for SkyTrain's future Hillcrest-184 Street Station in Surrey
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/7086-184-street-surrey-tower

I can foresee the neighbours have heart attacks over this development. A quick looks shows the 'tall' buildings in the area are only 3 storeys - 25 storeys will totally stand out (until other towers are built).

Hopefully the podium will calm their nerves a little bit. I've noticed when travelling around that a tower on it's own is way more noticeable than a tower with a podium base - I'm much more likely to notice the podium than I am the tower(s) sticking out of it.

[GMasterAres]

Hillcrest tower is going to have some great views.

[GMasterAres]

Originally Posted by Sheba

I can foresee the neighbours have heart attacks over this development. A quick looks shows the 'tall' buildings in the area are only 3 storeys - 25 storeys will totally stand out (until other towers are built).

Hopefully the podium will calm their nerves a little bit. I've noticed when travelling around that a tower on it's own is way more noticeable than a tower with a podium base - I'm much more likely to notice the podium than I am the tower(s) sticking out of it.

Yah maybe but that area is also quite dense, even with row homes the row homes are absolutely stacked and many have coach houses. So it would be hard to argue density especially with SkyTrain coming which everyone knows you don't have farms next to SkyTrain.

You'll get grumblings about traffic but I don't think it will be too much tbh.

[SpongeG]

Partially-built Surrey high-rise finds a taker
Final housing construction timelines are largely outside of the city’s control, a report notes
Sandor Gyarmati
Jul 28, 2026 1:30 PM


A visual of the separate West Village Parcel 7 development proposal. That parcel is also under a court ordered sale. City of Surrey report


A partially-built residential high-rise building in Surrey’s City Centre, that was under a court-ordered sale, may have found a buyer.

Now listed as under contract, the project in the 13000-block of 101 Avenue was originally marketed as “Centra”, an approved project comprising a 24-storey concrete tower and a two-storey townhouse and amenity building.

The project had 167 residential units above 194 stalls in two levels of underground parking.

The listing for the site notes construction on the project has progressed to the sixth floor above grade.

Buyers could “restart construction and benefit from over $23 million in hard costs spent to date, along with fully paid for entitlements and completed design drawings.”

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https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/partially-built-surrey-high-rise-finds-a-taker-12572127

[SpongeG]

Surrey council OKs 2 towers, 31 storeys and 25 storeys
Published 9:42 pm Monday, July 27, 2026
By Tom Zytaruk


Artist's conception of 31-storey tower for Fleetwood. (Surrey.ca)


Surrey council gave third-reading approval to a 31-storey mixed-use tower for Fleetwood on July 27.

The project will contain 358 residential units and 438 square metres of commercial space at 15284, 15286, 15288 and 15296 Fleetwood Drive, where a car sales lot and two-storey commercial building are presently located.

Surrey’s School District expects the tower will house 30 school-aged children with 18 attending Coyote Creek Elementary School, seven attending Fleetwood Park Secondary School and the rest either being home-schooled, attending private schools or being enrolled in different school districts.



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https://surreynowleader.com/2026/07/27/surrey-council-oks-2-towers-31-storeys-and-25-storeys/

[GMasterAres]

30 school-aged children. I'd put money down that is a gross under estimate like all their estimates for anything larger than a townhouse complex. Whoever does student estimate counts at Surrey school district needs to get on a plane and go visit some other countries and realize in many parts of the world, people raise children in low, medium, and high-rises as the norm.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by GMasterAres

30 school-aged children. I'd put money down that is a gross under estimate like all their estimates for anything larger than a townhouse complex. Whoever does student estimate counts at Surrey school district needs to get on a plane and go visit some other countries and realize in many parts of the world, people raise children in low, medium, and high-rises as the norm.

It doesn't say there would be 30 school aged children, it says 30 school aged children would be expected to attend Surrey School District schools. There might well be others attending other schools. 51 of the condos are micro units, 25 studio units and 161 are one-bedroom units, which wouldn't be expected to have any school aged children. The Surrey estimates, if they're calculated in the same way as other school districts, will be based on how many children actually attend Surrey schools from existing residential projects with a similar mix of unit sizes.

[SpongeG]

denser
27b6bd0e-85f4-4ec6-acdc-8bd39d84ee9c.jpeg by snub_you, on Flickr

[GMasterAres]

Originally Posted by Changing City

It doesn't say there would be 30 school aged children, it says 30 school aged children would be expected to attend Surrey School District schools. There might well be others attending other schools. 51 of the condos are micro units, 25 studio units and 161 are one-bedroom units, which wouldn't be expected to have any school aged children. The Surrey estimates, if they're calculated in the same way as other school districts, will be based on how many children actually attend Surrey schools from existing residential projects with a similar mix of unit sizes.

In 2024, it was found that for low rise and high rise developments, Surrey SD grossly underestimated numbers. They changed their scoring values in 2025 but noted at the time a lot of their numbers and calculations are based on trends over the past 20+ years. Demographics and trends have changed.

I have my own example of my multifamily building I moved into 7 years ago in Surrey Central (I have since moved to another city). At the time they had estimated in the development process 7 "school age kids attending Surrey schools" for our building (1 of 3 buildings) largely because as you said there were a lot of one bedroom and two-bedroom condo units (we were in a 3 bedroom). When the building was occupied, there were 27 school-age kids that attended Surrey schools.

And it was so drastic an underestimation that Lena Shaw the elementary school my kids attended had projected having 3 Kindergarten classes the year my daughter started and ended up with 7. So, like I said, through my simple observations of their estimates in reality, I think they are always just wayyyy off. There's a reason why Surrey SD has nearly 350 portable classrooms across the district and the last 2 newest schools opened brand new needing portables because they were majorly undersized. I also know quite a few single parents that have 1 kid living in the high-rise towers in Surrey Central so assuming single bedroom units have no kids is part of the problem along with the 172 other larger than 1 bedroom that very much may have kids.

I mean you can disagree; I just am going by my experience living in Surrey most of my life and seeing these numbers in reality almost never be correct so

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by GMasterAres

In 2024, it was found that for low rise and high rise developments, Surrey SD grossly underestimated numbers. They changed their scoring values in 2025 but noted at the time a lot of their numbers and calculations are based on trends over the past 20+ years. Demographics and trends have changed.

I have my own example of my multifamily building I moved into 7 years ago in Surrey Central (I have since moved to another city). At the time they had estimated in the development process 7 "school age kids attending Surrey schools" for our building (1 of 3 buildings) largely because as you said there were a lot of one bedroom and two-bedroom condo units (we were in a 3 bedroom). When the building was occupied, there were 27 school-age kids that attended Surrey schools.

And it was so drastic an underestimation that Lena Shaw the elementary school my kids attended had projected having 3 Kindergarten classes the year my daughter started and ended up with 7. So, like I said, through my simple observations of their estimates in reality, I think they are always just wayyyy off. There's a reason why Surrey SD has nearly 350 portable classrooms across the district and the last 2 newest schools opened brand new needing portables because they were majorly undersized. I also know quite a few single parents that have 1 kid living in the high-rise towers in Surrey Central so assuming single bedroom units have no kids is part of the problem along with the 172 other larger than 1 bedroom that very much may have kids.

I mean you can disagree; I just am going by my experience living in Surrey most of my life and seeing these numbers in reality almost never be correct so

Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like Surrey School Board struggle to accurately estimate the additional kids the project (and others) might generate. I looked at some more recent Burnaby and City of Vancouver projects, and they don't attempt to estimate school demand in their rezoning reports. Burnaby has a school site aquisition fund that large developments pay into, but that's it.

I know the City of Vancouver, many years ago, were surprised when they tried to estimate likely school demand, because it was very difficult to generate an accurate prediction. VSB tried too. If there was non-market family housing, it would be full of kids attending VSB schools, but everything else was much more random. Many years ago, there were more kids attending VSB Schools from the one family-sized midrise in Citygate, than all the market condo towers (with many more family-sized units) that surrounded it.