After years of cranes, construction fencing, and anticipation, Oakridge Park is open. Here’s what the buzz is all about — and why now might be the perfect time to make the neighbourhood part of your routine.
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There’s a version of this neighbourhood that long-time Vancouverites remember fondly. Weekend trips to the old Oakridge Centre. The food court pit stop. Running errands between the Canada Line and Cambie Street. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was familiar — a reliable patch of everyday city life anchored at 41st and Cambie.
That version is gone now, replaced by something far more ambitious. On May 28, 2026, Oakridge Park officially opened its doors, and if the opening weekend crowds were any indication, Vancouver has been more than ready for this.
What’s risen on this 28-acre site isn’t just a new shopping centre. It’s closer to a new urban neighbourhood — one built with the city’s next chapter in mind, layering luxury retail, food culture, green public space, and community infrastructure into a single destination unlike anything else in the Lower Mainland.
25
Acres of redevelopment
650K
Sq. ft. of retail & dining
7.5
Acres of rooftop park
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Retailers & restaurants
A food hall that changes the conversation
Ask anyone who’s been through the doors what surprised them most, and chances are the answer is the same: Time Out Market Vancouver. Canada’s second outpost of the internationally celebrated food hall concept, this 51,000-square-foot space occupies a prime position inside the mall — and it is nothing like a food court. Think closer to a lively urban dining hall where Vancouver’s most beloved restaurants have set up shop under one stylish roof, with around a thousand seats spread across a variety of seating configurations designed to invite you to slow down and stay a while.
The vendor lineup reads like a highlight reel of the city’s culinary scene:
- Feenie’s — Rob Feenie
- Lunch Lady
- DownLow Chicken
- Heritage Asian Eatery
- PiDGiN
- Peacock – Vikram Vij
- Via Tevere
Whether you’re grabbing a post-errand bite or making a night of it, the atmosphere holds up either way. It’s social, it’s well-designed, and it’s already become the kind of space where people end up staying longer than they planned — which, in a city of busy schedules, is genuinely saying something.
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Green space where there used to be a parking lot
Here’s the detail that tends to stop people mid-sentence when they hear it: where the old mall’s rooftop was once covered almost entirely in surface parking, there is now a publicly accessible park. Not a token strip of greenery or a decorative terrace — a full 7.5-acre urban park, formally designated and managed by the Vancouver Park Board, sitting on top of the mall and open to anyone who wants to use it.
On opening day, the central section of this park — called The Commons — welcomed its first visitors. What’s currently accessible represents a fraction of what will eventually be a nine-acre network of green space across the full development, but it’s already making an impression. The design, handled by landscape architecture firm PFS Studio, brings real intention to the space: it’s meant to feel like a genuine neighbourhood park, not a corporate rooftop amenity. And from early reports, it very much does.
“Where there was once a rooftop parking lot, there is now one of the largest publicly accessible rooftop parks of its kind in North America.”
Access to the park currently runs through the mall’s second level, adjacent to the Time Out Market — meaning your post-lunch stroll to grab some fresh air and a view of the mountains is essentially a two-minute walk from your table. It’s a pairing that feels very deliberate, and very Vancouver.
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Luxury retail lands in a big way
For years, Vancouver’s luxury retail landscape has been largely concentrated downtown around Pacific Centre. Oakridge Park changes that equation significantly. The tenant lineup includes a number of flagship and first-in-market openings for brands including Loewe, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Thom Browne, and Loro Piana — names that signal Oakridge Park’s ambitions clearly. This is a development designed to attract both local residents and international visitors, and the retail mix reflects that.
There’s also a new Apple store here — reportedly among the first in Canada to feature the brand’s latest interior design language, with quiet nods to Vancouver woven into the store experience. Add a 55,000-square-foot Altea Fitness facility and the picture comes together: this is a destination built for people who want more than errands from a shopping trip.
What’s still being built
As remarkable as the opening is, Oakridge Park is still very much a work in progress — and that’s not a criticism. The development’s phased approach means there’s more to look forward to. A 100,000-square-foot civic centre is expected to open later in 2026, bringing with it a community centre, seniors centre, youth hub, performance venue, childcare facility, gymnasium, artist studios, music rooms, and what will become the second-largest Vancouver Public Library branch in the city. Full buildout of the residential and office components is slated for 2029.
In other words, the neighbourhood is only going to get richer from here.
Source: Arlen Redekop
Why this moment matters for the Cambie Corridor
Vancouver doesn’t get moments like this very often. The last time a project of this scale opened in the city was — well, there really hasn’t been one. Oakridge Park is, by most measures, the largest mixed-use redevelopment in the city’s history, and it’s landed in a neighbourhood that has been quietly transforming for years along the Canada Line corridor.
The station is right there. The park will be there too. The food, the retail, the dental care, the community space — it’s all converging on a stretch of Cambie that for decades was functional but forgettable, and turning it into something genuinely worth making a trip for.
If you’ve been waiting for an excuse to explore this corner of the city, the excuses have run out. Oakridge Park is open, and it’s one of the most interesting places in Vancouver right now.
Oakridge Park is located at Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue, Vancouver. Accessible directly via Canada Line at Oakridge–41st Avenue Station. Live music programming continues every weekend through June in the North Atrium.
