[Burnaby] The Amazing Brentwood | 15 Towers | 186m | 56 flrs | U/C & Proposed

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Ice888

Well~ finally done my walk-through after 4 years of waiting
Here's a video of what it looked like, though the spaces seem way smaller than what I had originally thought it would be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMI4NoSiqPY

Congratz as a new condo owner!

[Vin]

Originally Posted by vanman

^That's good to hear.

They've managed to make the periphery of the mall attractive to pedestrians which is no small feat. I remember a few weeks ago in the evening seeing most of the tables being used along Willingdon.

Yes, you can see skytrain retail centre improvements over time here in Metro Vancouver. I suppose designers here are learning along the way. From the blank wall of the New West Station shopping plaza, to the improved street accessibility of the Marine Gateway, and now Brentwood Mall. One can really see the improvements of street presence and overall aesthetics.

[officedweller]

I saw the rooftop lighting on the condos the other night.
They're just spotlights point down from the rim of the mechanical penthouse, so looks like an afterthought.
One was a solid colour while the other was a sequence of rainbow colours, like an old school disco light.

[SpongeG]

some coming soon signage up

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are these bike racks?
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Urban Outfitters - will be kitty corner to H&M
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I wonder what the plan is for the pipes that pass in front? there are a few along the way
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don't seem to see much happening in there - could the green parts be video screens?
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I think this signage on the left is new
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[officedweller]

My guess is that the green panels on the H&M are access openings to load construction materials into the space.
All the brown panels adjacent are temporary.

[officedweller]

Throwbacks...

From the 1962 Trizec Annual Report:


https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/631116.pdf

From the 1963 Trizec Annual Report:


https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/631115.pdf


https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/631115.pdf

From the 1971 Trizec Annual Report:


https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/631113.pdf

From the 1972 Trizec Annual report

Looks like the outdoor mall is being enclosed.


https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/631112.pdf

From the 1975 Bramalea Annual Report:


https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/631056.pdf

[NetMapel]

Urban Outfitter is opening in 2021 and not 2020? I wonder why it's that late.

[53064043]

Originally Posted by brentwood8

urban fare

I know in their initial renderings and material they gave out during the phase 1 presales the grocery looked like an Urban Fare, but I have not heard anything concrete. Is there any news about this?

I work for the Save-on-Foods head office, and there are rumblings about a new Urban Fare opening in the lower mainland but the company has been very hush hush about where for now. Brentwood makes sense to me, I can't think of another neighbourhood outside downtown where that brand would fit.

[chowhou]

Originally Posted by 53064043

I work for the Save-on-Foods head office, and there are rumblings about a new Urban Fare opening in the lower mainland but the company has been very hush hush about where for now. Brentwood makes sense to me, I can't think of another neighbourhood outside downtown where that brand would fit.

There's already a Save-on-Foods just a block down Lougheed, though; Would they really cannibalize their own market?

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by chowhou

There's already a Save-on-Foods just a block down Lougheed, though; Would they really cannibalize their own market?

Metrotown has a Save-On-Foods ( at the old Orchard Shopping Ctr.) and a PriceSmart (Station Square) within almost a literal stone's throw away from each other (- or at least at a comparable distance apart as the Lougheed Save-On is from Brentwood).
And both owned by the same folks (Overwaitea Food Group/Jim Pattison)

In fact the PriceSmart occupies what used to be the original Save-On location which moved while Station Square was under construction.
And there don't seem to be any plans at the moment to get rid of either.

So it's not unheard of.

Now granted, you could argue that the target demographics and customerbase for both are slightly different (especially the PriceSmart), but there's enough cross-over to suggest they could be "cannibalizing" each other, but in reality probably aren't.

[officedweller]

There's only one space in the current new phase of Amazing brentwood that would fit an Urban Fare - and that's the big space fronting the plaza in purple below.
Would Shape have the guts to put a grocery store in such a prime retail location? It would generate incredible foot traffic for the plaza.
I also wonder if that was the space that Steve Nash would have occupied. If so, a grocery store would be much better.


http://shapeproperties.com/leasing/#/brentwood/plans

[SpongeG]

I wonder where indigo was supposed to go.

So they have some new signage up and i noticed that H&M have work orders pinned outside so there is some work going on.n Also to the north of Adidas is some work going on, one of the doors was off or open and shows stairs that go down to the parking, then the rest of the area is open to view. a small retail space according to the diagram above.

And again I noticed people pulling on the door to McDonalds, they should have kept the fence up. They are also installing McCafe signas below the M Signs. And the plaza was full of people, pretty amazing considering there is nothing really there yet. Rec Room had a lot of work going on, The RBC also being worked on and the giant video screen has been tarped off.

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[jollyburger]

I think parking lot access and loading docks would be important for a supermarket. Not sure what the setup is for that CRU.

[jollyburger]

Quin Fitness? That's under Tower 3?

[SpongeG]

thats Tower 2, the XYZ store is where H&M is going.

[SpongeG]

some work has been going on in the parking area, there is also some wood installed what look like stairs and they extend to Willingdon, not sure for what. Oct 3

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they have moved the fence in this part and not sure but it looks like its removed some stuff

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This section was closed off, looks like they have treated the wood and the wood in the ground
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looks much better
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Willingdon /Tower 2 - there are speakers all along so you can hear the music as you walk down Lougheed
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Looking North beside Tower 2
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Tower 3
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Very lush with the plantings
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McDonalds signage complete and they have the patio umbrellas in
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Upper underground parking
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[officedweller]

Great pics, thanks.

The wooden stairs and retaining wall look like a temporay solution until the next phase starts up on that site.

The plantings look really lush - reminds me of Southern California lifestyle centres (i.e. Newport Fashion island)

The stone cladding at the corner of Tower 3 looks great.

The music will help drown out street noise.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Quin Fitness? That's under Tower 3?

Just all the suggestive made-up names so they don't get sued.

Quin => Equinox.
Cloud Morrocco => Club Monaco
etc.

[VarBreStr18]

Wonder when they will start Tower 5? I mean since Solo is already planning their 4 th and last tower. I see signs where you can register for Tower4 .

[jamieson]

WeWork's website says coming June 2021.