Brentwood Block is international developer Grosvenor’s largest project in Metro Vancouver to date, and one of the largest to date within Burnaby’s Brentwood district. The first phase alone entails a 41-storey strata market ownership condominium tower and two secured purpose-built rental housing towers. Altogether, these initial three towers will generate 1,731 homes, including 1,280 rental homes and 451 condominium homes.
In fact, the tallest tower in this phase is one of the rental housing towers — a 630-ft-tall, 60-storey tower at the southeast corner of the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Alpha Avenue. If this rental housing tower existed today, it would be Metro Vancouver’s third tallest building — just behind the neraby newly-built Two Gilmore Place and downtown Vancouver’s Living Shangri-La.
This will be Western Canada’s tallest rental housing tower, where rental housing is the only housing tenure type for the residential component. It also exceeds the tallest future rental housing towers at the Oakridge Park and Senakw projects in Vancouver.
Despite the challenging economic fundamentals and cost conditions, Grosvenor has pulled the triggered on starting construction on the first phase, driven by their expectation of long-term housing demand in the region, the relatively strong pre-sales to date for the first phase’s condominium component, and the developer’s confidence in the Brentwood area.
As of the end of May 2025, 30 per cent or well over 100 of the 451 condominium homes have already been sold.
It is also noted by the developer that Brentwood Block is a $1.5-billion joint venture-backed investment with Westerkirk Capital and a Canadian pension fund.
Brentwood Block is aiming to help meet the future demand expected as other developers delay or postpone their projects, resulting in an overall shortage of supply further down the road.
