BrentwoodBritish Columbia

Brentwood is one of the four principal Town Centres of the City of Burnaby (alongside Metrotown, Lougheed, and Edmonds), centred on Brentwood Town Centre SkyTrain Station on the Millennium Line and anchored by The Amazing Brentwood — Shape Properties' 28-acre redevelopment of the former Brentwood Town Centre Mall. The Amazing Brentwood is built out across 11 residential towers (28–63 storeys) with a mixed-use retail podium spanning ~1.1 million sq ft of GLA — among the densest single TOD redevelopments in Western Canada. Inventory concentrates in 1-bedroom + den (550–700 sq ft) and 2-bedroom (800–1,050 sq ft) condo product, with sub-penthouse and penthouse tiers in the upper bands.

The neighbourhood is served by three Millennium Line SkyTrain stations — Gilmore (Lougheed + Gilmore) opened with the initial Millennium Line on January 7, 2002, and Brentwood Town Centre (Lougheed + Willingdon) plus Holdom (Lougheed + Holdom) opened with the Phase 2 extension on August 31, 2002. Headways run 3–5 minutes peak, 6–8 minutes off-peak. Travel time from Brentwood Town Centre Station to Commercial-Broadway is roughly 12 minutes; downtown via the Expo Line transfer is 25–30 minutes door-to-door for most Brentwood addresses. The Brentwood Town Centre Plan (adopted 1996, updated 2008 / 2014 / 2018) is the upzoning framework that anchored the residential tower buildout; BC Bill 47 (2024) layered Transit-Oriented Areas tier radii on top of the existing Plan entitlements around the three stations.

The northern edge of Brentwood is the Capitol Hill view-corridor tier — larger-lot detached north of Hastings Street that crowns the neighbourhood. Topography climbs steeply from Hastings to the summit at roughly 280 metres elevation, with panoramic Burrard Inlet, North Shore Mountains, and Lower Mainland views from the northern half of the slope. Lot zoning is RS-3 / RS-1 with deeper-than-standard lots on many blocks. Confederation Park (City of Burnaby) sits along the north and east face — a large district park with view amenity that anchors family demand. The view-corridor is protected by City of Burnaby view-cone overlays, meaning permitted heights on the Hastings frontage south of Capitol Hill help preserve the view tier's pricing premium for as long as the overlay holds.

For schools, most Brentwood addresses feed Burnaby North Secondary (751 Hammarskjold Drive) for grades 8–12 — French Immersion programming and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme are application-based streams. Elementary feeders depend on the sub-area: Brentwood Park Elementary (west of Willingdon), Westridge Elementary, Aubrey Elementary (Hastings corridor), and Capitol Hill Elementary. Eastern-edge addresses near Holdom may fall into Alpha Secondary catchment. If a particular school matters to your plans, the attendance area is set by address and easy to confirm.

Day-to-day amenity concentrates inside The Amazing Brentwood retail podium plus the long-established Brentwood Park residential pocket west of Willingdon (anchored by Brentwood Park Elementary and the namesake park). The Willingdon Heights residential band south of Lougheed is gentrifying as the Town Centre condo build-out spills over — older RS-1 detached on 5,000–6,500 sq ft lots, growing share of duplex / suited / rental-conversion stock. RM-2 / RM-3 apartment-zoned blocks along the Lougheed corridor are receiving redevelopment applications steadily as Burnaby works through the Brentwood Town Centre Plan refresh and the Bill 47 layered TOD framework.

Most Brentwood addresses feed Burnaby North Secondary (751 Hammarskjold Drive) for grades 8–12. French Immersion programming and the IB Diploma Programme are application-based streams. The IB premium concentrates on listings with the firmest Burnaby North catchment line.

Elementary feeders depend on the sub-area: Brentwood Park Elementary (west of Willingdon), Westridge Elementary, Aubrey Elementary (Hastings corridor), and Capitol Hill Elementary. Eastern-edge addresses near Holdom may fall into Alpha Secondary catchment instead. If a particular school matters to your plans, the attendance area is set by address and easy to confirm.

Day-to-day amenity concentrates inside The Amazing Brentwood retail podium — ~1.1 million sq ft GLA of mixed-use retail directly atop Brentwood Town Centre SkyTrain Station. Brentwood Park (the namesake park) anchors the older residential pocket west of Willingdon; Capitol Hill's Confederation Park anchors family demand on the northern slope.

View amenity is the structural lever in the Capitol Hill tier — panoramic Burrard Inlet, North Shore Mountains, and Lower Mainland views from the northern half of the slope, protected by City of Burnaby view-cone overlays. Highway 1 access via Willingdon and Gilmore is 25–40 minutes to downtown by car. The mix of TOD retail + view-corridor detached + family-elementary pockets is what differentiates Brentwood from the rest of Burnaby.

Three Millennium Line SkyTrain stations sit inside Brentwood — Gilmore (Lougheed + Gilmore) opened January 7, 2002 with the initial line, while Brentwood Town Centre (Lougheed + Willingdon) and Holdom (Lougheed + Holdom) opened August 31, 2002 with Phase 2. Headways 3–5 minutes peak, 6–8 minutes off-peak. Travel time from Brentwood Town Centre to Commercial-Broadway is ~12 minutes; downtown via the Expo Line transfer is 25–30 minutes door-to-door.

SFU (Burnaby Mountain) is reachable by SkyTrain + 145 bus in ~30 minutes; UBC by SkyTrain + 99 / 49 bus in 50–60 minutes. By car, Highway 1 access via Willingdon and Gilmore puts most addresses 25–40 minutes from downtown. The three-station density is the structural difference between Brentwood and the other Burnaby town centres outside Metrotown.