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The Amazing Brentwood (previously Brentwood Town Centre and also referred to as Brentwood Mall ) is a shopping mall in Burnaby , British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Brentwood Park area of North Burnaby, at the intersection of Willingdon Avenue and Lougheed Highway, approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) from the city of Vancouver .

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7-482: 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

14-416: A development initiative entitled "The Amazing Brentwood", which aims to create a master-planned neighbourhood. It consists of 120,000 m (1,300,000 sq ft) of retail space, 46,000 m (500,000 sq ft) of office space, and three residential high-rise towers which were to be completed between 2018 and 2021. Brentwood Town Centre is directly connected to Brentwood Town Centre station on

21-661: The Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver 's SkyTrain rapid transit system. Brentwood Park Brentwood Park , or simply Brentwood , is a neighbourhood in North Burnaby , British Columbia, between Willingdon Avenue to the west and Springer Avenue to the east. Hastings Street separates it from the Capitol Hill area to the north, while Lougheed Highway marks the dividing line between this residential area and an area of commercial and industrial land to

28-475: The University of British Columbia , Nanaimo station , Kootenay Loop , Metrotown and other major regional nodes. Brentwood Mall , a shopping centre, is located in the southwest corner of the neighbourhood, near the border of Vancouver. Next to the park is Brentwood Park Elementary School . There are a number of churches in the area, mainly along Delta Avenue. Brentwood has a horseshoe-like grid with

35-538: The largest in Canada. Its anchors included Eaton's , Loblaws (their first store in British Columbia), and Zellers ; 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. In November 2014, the 11-hectare (28-acre) Brentwood Town Centre site underwent a major redevelopment as part of

42-492: 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 37,600 square metres (405,000 sq ft) of retail space, 2,400 parking spaces, and covered 12 hectares (30 acres)—making it

49-477: The south. Housing is mostly single-family but there are a number of high-rise and low-rise rental buildings in its south-east corner, near Springer Avenue. Several condominium towers are planned for the south edge of the area, along SkyTrain tracks. The area is served by two stations of the Millennium Line – Brentwood Town Centre station and Holdom station . A bus loop is steps away from Brentwood Town Centre station. Local bus service connects Brentwood with

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