Coquitlam Town Centre is the main commercial and retail neighbourhood for the city of Coquitlam, British Columbia. Town Centre covers 715 hectares (1,767 acres) and contains the highest concentration of high-rise condominiums in the Tri-Cities.
Geographically, Coquitlam has two large parcels of land (one in the south-west, the other in the north-east), with a smaller central area between them. This central area, Coquitlam Town Centre, was designated as a "Regional Town Centre" under the Metro Vancouver’s Livable Region Strategic Plan. The concept of a town centre for the area dates back to 1975. The intent is to have a concentration of high-density housing, offices, cultural, entertainment and education facilities to serve major growth areas of the region, served by rapid transit service. Coquitlam Town Centre is currently undergoing an update of the Town Centre plan. The Douglas College Station will be the terminus of the planned Evergreen Line, which is expected to be completed in 2016.
Public facilities presently at the Town Centre Park area include:
Famous quotes containing the words town and/or centre:
“They say this town is full of cozenage:
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
And many such-like liberties of sin.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)