Northeast Community Centre
The City is planning a new community centre on Burke Mountain that will meet the needs of current and future residents of this growing Northeast Coquitlam community – as well as residents across the community – with amenities including pools, gymnasiums and a fitness centre. See below for the proposed building program and public engagement information. View the site plan.
Targeted to open in 2028 in the future Burke Mountain Village, the proposed 7,430-square-metre (80,000-square-foot) Northeast Community Centre will include a range of services including aquatics, gymnasiums, fitness, library and community space sized to meet the anticipated demand for recreation and community centre services in the area.
Proposed Building Concept
The proposed building concept for the three-storey building includes:
- An aquatics centre with separate leisure and six-lane lap pool, whirlpool, sauna and steam room;
- Two gymnasiums;
- Fitness centre with weight room and studio;
- Community space including multi-purpose rooms, community kitchen, a ‘makerspace’ (i.e. collaborative working, learning and exploring space) and large atrium;
- Covered outdoor covered space for recreation and cultural programs;
- About 340 parking stalls, half of which will be covered;
- Public art; and
- A new branch of the Coquitlam Public Library.
The concept also includes Burke Village Park, centrally located next to the future community centre, and providing a critical pedestrian link from outside the Village directly into the heart of the Burke Mountain Village neighbourhood.
Additional Information
For more information on the development of Burke Mountain, visit the Burke Mountain Updates web page or sign up for the Burke Mountain email news list.
The Burke Mountain neighbourhood in Northeast Coquitlam is expected to grow from its current population of more than 20,000 people, to about 50,000 in the next 25 years. Coquitlam’s Parks Recreation and Culture Master Plan identified the future need for a comprehensive multi-use community centre in the Burke Mountain Village neighbourhood area.
Public consultation, strategic planning, best practices and other research have helped shape the vision for the NECC as an inclusive and accessible facility that will showcase the natural mountainside setting.
Coquitlam is committed to continuing to engage the community and stakeholders in the planning process to ensure the centre reflects the current and future needs of the surrounding neighbourhood.
A community survey in fall 2019 was the beginning of the community centre planning process. Additional visioning and community consultation took place in 2020 to refine the concept. A summary of that feedback is available in the Northeast Community Centre What We Heard infographic (PDF).
In total, the City heard from more than 1,000 people during public engagement in 2019 to 2020, including 13 community groups and three interpreted sessions in Mandarin, Korean and Farsi.
We acknowledge that these lands are traditional and ancestral lands of kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation. Ongoing staff discussions are also taking place with the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm First Nation.
A second round of public engagement took place in late 2019 and early 2020 seeking feedback on the proposed site-fit (a facility’s layout on the property) and program. Here's What We Heard in Phase 2 (PDF).
Staff will further analyze how this feedback can be incorporated into the final community centre design, along with feasibility and cost implications. The next phase of engagement will take place in 2024. The project team will provide updates here as well as on the engagement project page. You can also reach out to the project team at any time at northeastcommunitycentre@coquitlam.ca.
Following the public engagement in fall 2021, staff reported back to Council in 2023 to lay out the next steps, including financing and the procurement process.
The targeted project schedule is:
- November – December 2021: Final public engagement
- Mid-2023: Council report with final NECC concept, site fit and budget
- 2023-2024: Design development
- 2025: Site preparation and servicing
- 2026-2027: Construction
- 2028: Anticipated facility opening
- Report to Council-in-Committee on March 11, 2024 - Northeast Community Centre Project Update
- Report to Council-in-Committee on July 31, 2023 - Northeast Community Centre - Final Facility Program and Initiation of Design Phase
- Report to Council-in-Committee on May 30, 2022 - Northeast Community Centre Update
- Report to Council-in-Committee on Oct. 18, 2021 – Northeast Community Centre – Recommended program and site fit concept
- Report to Council-in-Committee on Feb. 10, 2020 – Northeast Community Recreation Centre Progress Update
- Report to Council-in-Committee on Sept. 9, 2019 – Major Recreation Services Initiatives: Northeast Recreation Centre and City Centre Expansion
- Parks, Recreation and Culture (PRC) Master Plan