[Burnaby] The Amazing Brentwood | 15 Towers | 186m | 56 flrs | U/C & Proposed - Page 26

spm2013 · #**501** Posted **Jul 14, 2014, 11:29 PM**

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AudiA3 · #**502** Posted **Jul 14, 2014, 11:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by spm2013

I think it's amazing because of the stupid name. There is nothing amazing about Brentwood. Never was and never will be.

LOL Okay fine... it sucks... Anyways back to topic, does anybody has any recent shot of the excavation site?

spm2013 · #**503** Posted **Jul 14, 2014, 11:40 PM**

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logan5 · #**504** Posted **Jul 14, 2014, 11:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by AudiA3

I think people really like this project because Brentwood's location is really central in Metro Vancouver, don't you guys agree?

Don't agree. New West seems more central to me. Plus you have better Skytrain options. Plus a way better urban vibe. Brentwood has no urban vibe, and won't have one for 10 years or more. Metrotown has been developing for far longer than Brentwood and still has no urban vibe.

trofirhen · #**505** Posted **Jul 15, 2014, 12:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Don't agree. New West seems more central to me. Plus you have better Skytrain options. Plus a way better urban vibe. Brentwood has no urban vibe, and won't have one for 10 years or more. Metrotown has been developing for far longer than Brentwood and still has no urban vibe.

I agree that, despite all the developments there, Metrotown has no urban vibe, not yet anyway.
Brentwood, on the other hand, will be more compact, denser, taller, have a well-designed town centre, and is more likely to get that urban vibe before Metrotown does.

jb1969 · #**506** Posted **Jul 15, 2014, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by AudiA3

LOL Okay fine... it sucks... Anyways back to topic, does anybody has any recent shot of the excavation site?

There has been no excavation on the site as of yet. Some demolition of part of the existing mall, and a lot of off site prep work, but no shovels in the ground yet.

red-paladin · #**507** Posted **Jul 15, 2014, 5:16 PM**

I don't think it's fair to say Metrotown has no urban vibe. I've lived there for a few years, and some sections of Kingsway are very busy with pedestrian traffic visiting all the little shops. And to me, Crystal Mall and the lane bisecting the property is one of the most under-appreciated urban pedestrian lane gems of the Metro Van area.

That being said, there is a lot of work to be done. Hopefully Station Square's new urban and pedestrian focused street and streetfront on Silver Ave will help a lot.

Brentwood does have a few blocks to the west of the mall where there is potential, but not much yet, I agree.

logan5 · #**508** Posted **Jul 15, 2014, 5:32 PM**

Kingsway/Metrotown is going to be a clone of Yonge St./North York City Centre. I suppose that's not bad.

officedweller · #**509** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 10:29 PM**

Posted July 14 at the Brentwood Station blog:

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New intersections around Brentwood
As Phase 1 of the Brentwood Mall Redevelopment gets set to begin, new intersections are being added on Lougheed Hwy and on Willingdon Ave. The traffic signals have already been put in place (but not yet activated) at a new intersection just north of Halifax Street. On Lougheed Hwy, traffic disrupting work is being done at a newly forming intersection with traffic lights to come at Alpha Ave and Lougheed Hwy.

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/...brentwood.html

AudiA3 · #**510** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 2:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Posted July 14 at the Brentwood Station blog:

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/...brentwood.html

I see the point of the mall's East corner expansion from that photo. It seems like the new mall will be directly connected to the existing mall.

SpongeG · #**511** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 5:45 AM**

thats being demolished

AudiA3 · #**512** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 8:42 PM**

Found this from Aerobotika website

vanman · #**513** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 9:54 PM**

Thanks for posting.

All this talk of Brentwood having a more urban vibe than Metrotown is clearly nonsense. Kingsway, for all its shortcomings, feels like a commercial core with office towers, condos and retail of varying ages facing the street.

Brentwood is still in transition with a large amount of industrial land and parking lots that need to be developed. also the towers that have been built are too similar in age and massing, lending to that suburban centre vibe.

faston · #**514** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 10:23 PM**

Hey, I can see my house from here!

What I like about that photo is that it shows the train tracks disappearing into the little-known tunnel that goes from Dawson Street (the entrance in the photo) emerging at the rail bridge that runs parallel to the 2nd narrows bridge. All the way under North Burnaby.

AudiA3 · #**515** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

Thanks for posting.

All this talk of Brentwood having a more urban vibe than Metrotown is clearly nonsense. Kingsway, for all its shortcomings, feels like a commercial core with office towers, condos and retail of varying ages facing the street.

Brentwood is still in transition with a large amount of industrial land and parking lots that need to be developed. also the towers that have been built are too similar in age and massing, lending to that suburban centre vibe.

You're absolutely right, the area is not busy enough with pedestrians. It will still be years away until Brentwood can feel as urban as Metrotown.

trofirhen · #**516** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 11:18 PM**

Kingsway is nevertheless still a cheap, ugly, piece of scheiss, with ugly, suburban lamp posts to top it all off.
When it gets to feeling like Westwood Bvd in LA, it'll have a true urban vibe.

AudiA3 · #**517** Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 4:37 AM**

Thank goodness.. The bus loop is finally torn apart!

Source: http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/...loop-gone.html

jb1969 · #**518** Posted **Aug 12, 2014, 10:15 PM**

When is their expected delivery date for the condos for move in?

Locked In · #**519** Posted **Aug 12, 2014, 11:10 PM**

Late 2017 for the first tower, I believe.

cairnstone · #**520** Posted **Aug 13, 2014, 1:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by faston

Hey, I can see my house from here!

What I like about that photo is that it shows the train tracks disappearing into the little-known tunnel that goes from Dawson Street (the entrance in the photo) emerging at the rail bridge that runs parallel to the 2nd narrows bridge. All the way under North Burnaby.

Thats a great picture and it explains why some places never get developed. You can visualize the right away as it goes in the hill. I new the tracks were there but never but 2 and 2 together till I saw the picture.