The Amazing Brentwood
The Amazing Brentwood 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 from the city of Vancouver.
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 Eaton's, Loblaws, 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.
The mall was closed in May 2025 and will be entirely demolished.