After years of closed-door meetings and in-camera reports, city council has approved four city-owned lots (4038, 4066, 4086 and 4244 Norland Ave.) as the location for a new $162.5-million Burnaby RCMP headquarters.
Smilestones junior kindergarten on Norland Avenue is poised to become the safest child-care centre in Burnaby now that the city has decided to build its new $162.5-million RCMP detachment practically right next door.
Cancelled open houses City council approved the Norland Avenue location after years of closed-door meetings and in-camera reports. Lots of studies, none public Burnaby RCMP has outgrown its headquarters at 6355 Deer Lake Ave., according to a 2020 space needs study. The city had originally considered building the new RCMP facility at 6161 Deer Lake Ave., right next to the current headquarters, and hired an architect in 2021 to produce a conceptual design.The current location wasn’t approved until one more study in March 2023 of four different siting options, according to the report.
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