Amacon is proposing a 22-storey condo tower in the Brentwood area of Burnaby. First proposed back in 2017, the project site is located at 4455 Alaska Street, currently improved with an older industrial building. The total site area is 40,786 SF.

The Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan designates the subject site for high-density multiple-family residential development based on the RM4s Multiple Family Residential High Rise Apartment Tower with Street-Oriented Townhouses as a guideline, up to a maximum of 3.60 FAR.

The proposed development concept is for a single 22-storey tower above
structured and underground parking, with ground oriented townhousing fronting Alaska
Street. Details include:

• 164 Units;
  • 18 studios, 58 one-bedrooms, 70 two-bedrooms & 12 three-bedrooms;
• a total density of 3.60 FAR;
• 182 parking spaces.

The rezoning application for Phase 2 of Concord Pacific’s Concord Brentwood project is moving to first reading. The overall project master plan was approved by the City of Burnaby in 2016, with individual phases requiring detailed rezoning applications.

The first phases of the project (1a and 1b) are currently under construction and summarized as follows:

• Hillside West – two towers (44 & 49-storeys), 892 units. Sold out in early 2018.
• Hillside East – two towers (55 & 45-storeys), 900 units. Over 90% sold out.

Phase 2 of the site is located within the “Flatlands” subarea of the overall site, and fronts the future Dawson Street extension and Yukon Crescent. Phase 2 totals 204,000 SF and consists of two high-rise residential buildings, one mid-rise residential building, a low-rise residential podium, common amenities (super club), and street oriented retail uses atop, and fronting, underground and structured parking.

Details include:

• A 45-storey tower, a 50-storey tower, and an 18-storey tower
• 825 total condo units;
  • 247 one-bedrooms, 438 two-bedrooms & 218 three-bedrooms;
• 50,000 SF of retail space (0.25 FAR);
• A 31,000 SF “Super Club” serving all phases of the project that includes fitness space with gym, pool, bowling alley & spa.
• A total density of 4.97 FAR;
• 1,001 underground parking spaces;
• New roadways including:
  • Extension of Dawson Street
  • Construction of Douglas Road/Delta Avenue and Lougheed Hwy intersection
  • New pedestrian and cycling routes

The sale of Saputo’s 19-acre Burnaby plant to Peterson Group has completed for $209,000,000. The site at 6800 Lougheed Highway had been listed by Cushman & Wakefield in early 2017. 

Saputo will relocate their operations to a new processing plant on a 20 acre site on Kingsway Avenue in Port Coquitlam, which is expected to be completed within the next three years. In the interim, their sale deal with Peterson envisions a lease back until their new plant is ready in 2021.

Redevelopment plans for the Lougheed site have yet to be revealed; however, previous planning efforts for the Bainbridge area anticipated a higher density mixed use development given the site’s location adjacent a Skytrain station.