Burke Mountain Coquitlam
Burke Mountain is set amongst tall trees, walking trails and a beautiful natural environment. Your back yard is the mountain itself. Steps were taken to prepare the community with a focus on the environmental aspects, like protection of watercourses and sensitivity to the flora and fauna native to the area.
The community of Burke Mountain is starting to emerge with development and home construction well underway. It will be home to over 5,000 residents when completed and the 400 acres will be turned into a mix of large single family, small single family, row homes, duplexes and traditional town homes. This will give new homeowners a great range of housing styles and prices.
There will eventually be five new elementary schools and two new middle schools with a community centre. Also in the overall plans are new community parks, environmentally protected park areas as well as a new fire hall to serve Northeast Coquitlam.
A collection of shops is planned to be located centrally at Coast Meridian and David Ave to help serve all your shopping needs. The Village Centre will be a gathering place that brings shops and services into the heart of this new community. Perhaps home to a charming café, grocery store and maybe even a local bakery.
The entrance to Burke Mountain will be by the new David Avenue Bridge and direct connection to David Avenue in Coquitlam & Port Moody. Commuters will benefit from the new overpass at the base of Coast Meridian Road to the Mary Hill Bypass. Easy access to #1 highway as well as the proximity to the new Golden Ears Bridge. Park and ride by Coquitlam Centre and jump on transit or the Westcoast Express.
There is a long list of home developers contributing to the neighborhood such as Wesbild, Marcraft Homes, Morningstar Homes, Polygon Homes, Thomas Homes, Mosaic Homes, Wallmark Homes, Foxridge Homes and C.P. Homes. Team Aragon would love to give you a guided tour!
Schools Serving Burke Mountain
Leigh Elementary, Grades K-5
1230 Soball Road, Port Coquitlam, 604-941-8661
Kwayhquitlum Middle, Grades 6-8
3230 Flint Street, Port Coquitlam, 604-942-1835
Terry Fox Secondary, Grades 9-12
1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam, 604-941-5401
TEAM ARAGON In The News.
"Burke builders buck economy"- By Janis Warren - The Tri-City News
Wesbild to open its info centre Saturday
The number of housing starts may have fallen like snow over the past year but Burke Mountain developers say they’re confident the spring sunshine will usher in a new wave of home buyers for northeast Coquitlam.
Tomorrow, Wesbild Holdings Ltd., which owns about 200 acres of developable land on Burke Mountain, will open its information centre at the corner of Coast Meridian Road and David Avenue.
Wesbild’s Jen Derbyshire said the company needed a central location on Burke for builders to showcase their lots and homes to customers in the Foothills neighbourhood and “to tell our story” about what Wesbild has done on the mountain so far.
The city of Coquitlam — the largest landowner on Burke Mountain — plans to add another 24,000 residents to the lower slopes by 2020 in five master-planned villages: Upper Hyde Creek, Lower Hyde Creek, Smiling Creek, Partington Creek and Hazel Drive.
Wesbild undertook neighbourhood plan designs for Upper Hyde and Smiling creeks, a process that took several years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wesbild has six builders for its sites responsible for construction of up to 1,600 residential units; they are: Morningstar Homes, Wallmark Homes, CP Homes, Foxridge Homes, Polygon Homes and Thomas Homes.
MacDonald Realty realtor Taryn Aragon said early spring is typically a good time for home sales. And with the poor economic climate, lending rates are low and prices are down — about $150,000 less than last year for some Burke properties, she said.
“Getting on the ground floor — in a new home, in a new community with new schools — from the beginning makes good investment sense because the prices are bound to go up sooner than later,” she said.
Dale Barron, president of Morningstar Homes, which is based in Coquitlam, said January was the best month in his company’s history, with 23 sales in five projects in the Lower Mainland. Last weekend, it sold seven homes in the Belmont neighbourhood on Burke, bringing its total sales for single-family detached homes to about 60 (it bought 155 lots from Wesbild last fall).
Like Morningstar, Thomas Homes will have a sales representative at the Foothills information centre for its eight houses, located off David Avenue. To date, it has sold two.
“Things are pretty tough right now,” owner Thomas Hogge said, “but more people come out to look in the spring so we’re expecting things to pick up a bit.”
The builders’ and realtor’s comments come as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. announced yesterday it’s forecasting sharply lower levels of house starts for the next two years and sliding home sales because of the global recession. CMHC also predicts existing home sales to drop 14.6% this year.
Still, “people are finding their buck is going a lot further now,” Aragon said. “Sales have been really brisk, especially in the last few weeks.”
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