Brentwood was one of the first places to bring all this density in one spot to Burnaby. There isn't much other allure than the skytrain, shopping mall, and the hope that it'll be great.
Metrotown was almost at the same point, but they are abit more spread out, with TheMet towers on the East. The towers going up along Beresford (Central Blvd) on the South, and Station Square in the NorthWest.
If you guys start digging around, Concord (IIRC) wants to place 3-4 towers on TheBay & Sears outside parking lots on the North side of Metrotown. If that goes through, I'm not really going to a shopping mall period anymore.
Brentwoods traffic will be 100% fucked once that development is complete. As no expanded road infrastructure is planned, just more traffic lights.
Kingsway infront of Metrotown is already fucked, and will only get worse if that development by Concord happens.
Lougheed & North Rd are terrible already, and with that development, not much can be done for ways of expansion. Another mall to get fucked.
Yet I'd still rather live in New West/Burnaby than Vancouver.
