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Sporting Life coming to Brentwood

With 12 stores currently in Canada, Sporting Life's first BC store will be coming to the Amazing Brentwood in 2019.  Sporting Life is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2019.  Shape properties will begin to reveal it's lineup of new stores as we approach the 2019 opening of the Amazing Brentwood. 

(Retail Insider article below)

Sporting Life Announces 1st Store Location in British Columbia

July 29, 2018

By Craig Patterson

Upscale Toronto-based sport and fashion retailer Sporting Life is expanding into new markets. The company has just announced that its first store in British Columbia will open in the fall of 2019 at The Amazing Brentwood in Burnaby, east of Vancouver. It’s all part of an expansion to position Sporting Life as a national brand that will soon have stores in four provinces. 

“Vancouver’s renowned active and health conscious population provides an ideal foundation for launching Sporting Life on the West coast,” said Sporting Life co-founder and CEO David Russell. “We’ve had our eye on this city since Patti (co-founder of Sporting Life) and I lived in Vancouver years back. We see the value in this market and believe in the retail environment. We hope to ultimately have three stores in the greater Vancouver area.”

The Brentwood Sporting Life store will span about 44,000 square feet according to the company, and will open in 2019. The store will feature attractive interiors and an assortment of designer brands, as with the company’s other stores. 

Last summer, The Amazing Brentwood’s landlord SHAPE  announced that it had partnered with the L Catterton group, which is a private equity firm linked with French luxury conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) and Groupe Arnault. The new $2 billion The Amazing Brentwood will become the focal point of a community that will include over a million square feet of retail space, considerable office space, as well as multiple residential towers for thousands of new residents. The first phase is scheduled to open in the spring of 2019. 

The Amazing Brentwood’s retail component will house more than 250 stores, a ‘culinary collection’, and a one-acre plaza. An entertainment focus will also include the addition of Cineplex VIP Cinemas, as well as The Rec Room entertainment centre. Brentwood is eyeing luxury brands to move into the centre, placing it directly in competition with QuadReal’s Oakridge Centre on Vancouver’s West Side, which intends on becoming the region’s second ‘luxury node’ to complement the downtown Vancouver ‘Luxury Zone’.  

Sporting Life was founded in 1979 and sells apparel and footwear, as well as equipment geared towards runners, cyclists, skiers, snowboarders and hikers. It has a large selection of outerwear, fleece and coats from popular brands Moncler, Canada Goose, Arc'teryx and The North Face, among others. It also carries a mix of high-end and casual clothing brands such as Barbour, Bogner, Hugo Boss, Mackage, John Varvatos and others. Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. bought 75% of Sporting Life in December of 2011.

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Willingdon Linear Park officially opens today

The Willingdon Linear Park officially opens today.   The pedestrian/cycling path will connect Brentwood Town Centre from Brentlawn Drive to Hastings Street along the east side of Willindgon Avenue.

The official opening event takes place from 10:30-2:30pm between Midlawn Drive and Parker Street.
The City of Burnaby has enacted no stopping or parking on certain streets in the neighbourhood (photo of map below).

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Bordeaux site excavation begins

The site of the future Bordeaux development at the corner of Willingdon and Juneau is now being dug up.  This development will likely mark the southernmost point of Brentwood Town Centre along Willingdon Ave and, along with the east side of Willindgon and Juneau, will form an entry point into the Brentwood area for vehicle traffic travelling north from Hwy 1 and beyond.

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