There would be immense densification of the area with a mix of residential, commercial, and creative industrial uses.
Currently, the area has just 1,500 residents in 269 single-family homes and 275 townhomes. Nearly a third (30%) of the area is industrial, 21% is commercial, 13% is multi-family housing, and 33% is single-family housing.
But Bainsbridge Urban Village is currently envisioned to have relatively moderate multi-family residential densities both ownership and affordable rental housing with neighbourhood-serving, smaller-scale retail and restaurants, as opposed to the regional-sized, high-density growth planned around SkyTrain’s Brentwood Town Centre and Lougheed Town Centre stations to the west and east.
Area of Bainsbridge Urban Village, anchored by SkyTrain’s Sperling-Burnaby Lake Station. (City of Burnaby)