Imagine a community where forest trails meet café patios, where trestle bridges rise through the trees and where families, seniors and first-time home buyers all find a place to call home.
This is life at Cypress Village, a 25-year, master-planned community developed by longtime West Vancouver community ambassadors, British Properties.
Wellbeing from day one
It’s a community where the ethos of “a new altitude of wellbeing” perfectly captures all facets of the plan, from vision to delivery, where life overtop Burrard Inlet elevates your health, happiness, connectedness and wellbeing.
“Cypress Village is more than a grouping of homes — it’s a holistic plan for how people live, move, connect and thrive. We’re building parks, trails, wetland and other connective infrastructure before housing construction starts,” explains Executive Vice-President Bryce Tupper with British Properties.
Cypress Village will ultimately include 3,711 new homes with a community of approximately 10,000 people when surrounding homes are included.
The development will be located just west of the first switchback on Cypress Bowl Road and above the Upper Levels Highway, where a comprehensive mix of housing types will appeal to all corners of the community:
- 230 single-family homes
- 161 townhomes
- 553 rental apartments
- 184 below-market rentals
- 2,583 strata condos in mid and high-rise buildings
“West Vancouver’s current housing stock is predominantly single-family,” Tupper says. “Cypress Village introduces a broader spectrum of homes, making it possible for more people to live here – including downsizers or those who have grown up on the North Shore and have been looking for an opportunity to return.”
Rendering of Cypress Village by David Csont.
The development will be fully serviced and unfold over multiple phases. Hundreds of acres of the surrounding village — including Eagleridge, the 262 acres of forested lands recently transferred to the District of West Vancouver — will be protected as park and conservation space.
Adventure at your doorstep
The first phase of Cypress Village will place a concerted focus on recreational infrastructure: new hiking and biking trails are already being built with partners from the North Shore Mountain Bike Association; signature trestle bridges will connect the terrain across forested valleys and a pop-up park is already serving as an early gathering place and green space.
Rendering of Cypress Village by David Csont.
Future plans include a grocery store, childcare, sports fields, a community centre, transit and an elementary school. It’s an approach that balances environmental responsibility with meaningful livability to create a place where natural systems, public amenities and housing are thoughtfully integrated from the start.
And while the village feels immersed in the mountains, everything else is remarkably close. Whether a hike to Hollyburn Peak, an afternoon at the beach, a ride on transit to Park Royal, shopping and dinner downtown or escaping for a weekend trip to Whistler, the location offers direct, convenient access to the best that Vancouver, the North Shore and the region have to offer.
That British Properties has been in business since 1931 comes with a promise of livability and environmental sustainability unmatched anywhere on the North Shore.
“We built the Lions Gate Bridge and Park Royal — transformational infrastructure that opened the North Shore to the future,” Tupper says. “With Cypress Village, we’re drawing on that same long-view thinking to deliver a community that reflects today’s values: environmental stewardship, housing diversity and public benefit.”
Learn more about the vision, plans and progress behind Cypress Village by visiting www.britishproperties.com/cypress-village/.
