The Amazing Brentwood (also referred to as Brentwood Town Centre and Brentwood Mall) is a

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, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Brentwood area of North Burnaby, at the intersection of Willingdon Avenue and Lougheed Highway, approximately from the city of

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History

The Brentwood Park neighbourhood was developed in the early 1950s with 572 homes and plans for a shopping centre. The site was pieced together from municipal property and 14 private owners and acquired by Webb and Knapp Canada in 1957; several retailers had already purchased properties on the site and agreed to an integrated mall plan. Plans for the shopping centre were formally announced in January 1959 and approved by the municipal council the following month. Construction on the $10 million project began later that year. The Brentwood Shopping Centre opened on August 16, 1961, with 10,000 visitors on the first day causing traffic congestion on the Lougheed Highway. The mall had 50 stores, a total of of retail space, 2,400 parking spaces, and covered —making it the largest in Canada. Its anchors included

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(their first store in British Columbia), and

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; other stores were spread between an enclosed area and outdoor strip mall. The outdoor portion was later converted to an enclosed space, while a second level was added in the 1980s.

Redevelopment

In November 2014, the Brentwood Town Centre site underwent a major redevelopment as part of a development initiative entitled "The Amazing Brentwood", which aims to create a master-planned neighbourhood. It consists of of retail space, of office space, and three residential high-rise towers which were to be completed between 2018 and 2021.

Transportation

Brentwood Town Centre is directly connected to

Brentwood Town Centre station Brentwood Town Centre (sometimes abbreviated as Brentwood) is an elevated station on the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located above Lougheed Highway east of Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, Brit ...

on the

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's SkyTrain rapid transit system.

References

External links

The Amazing Brentwood official site
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