# Fraser Mills Coquitlam — Beedie Waterfront Community Guide > Fraser Mills, Coquitlam — Beedie's emerging master-planned Fraser River waterfront community: ~5,500 presale homes across ~20 towers on 95 acres, future waterfront park and amenities. An honest buyer's read (DEBUT, Encore) from Craig Johnston, REALTOR®. **Source:** https://soldbycraig.ca/fraser-mills-coquitlam-guide/ **Author:** Craig Johnston, REALTOR® (BC Licence V99960) · The MACNABS · Royal LePage Elite West **Site:** https://soldbycraig.ca --- Fraser Mills · Southwest Coquitlam · Waterfront Community ## Fraser Mills, Coquitlam — Beedie's Fraser River waterfront community, explained honestly. Fraser Mills is an emerging, mostly-future community: Beedie's approved, master-planned redevelopment of the 95-acre former sawmill site on the Fraser River in southwest Coquitlam. Reported at roughly 5,500 homes across about 20 towers, built out over 15–20 years, with a future waterfront park, urban plaza and community amenities. Today it's a presale community — the first tower, DEBUT, has sold — and daily life still leans on adjacent Maillardville and the United Boulevard shops. This is the straight read: what's approved, what's built, and what it means if you're buying. By Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960 — a 47+ year Coquitlam resident. [Get my home value →](/home-evaluation/) [Free Move-Up Planner (PDF) →](/coquitlam-move-up-planner/) **Updated:** July 6, 2026 · **License:** V99960 · **Brokerage:** Royal LePage Elite West ★ Tri-Cities Move-Up Specialist 47+ year Coquitlam resident Top 1% Team Member — Greater Vancouver REALTORS® Top 2% Team Member — Royal LePage nationwide Medallion Club Team Member since 2021 Quick Answer What is Fraser Mills in Coquitlam? Fraser Mills is an approved, master-planned waterfront community by **Beedie (Beedie Living)** on the former Fraser Mills sawmill site (around 2 King Edward Street) on the Fraser River in southwest Coquitlam. At full build-out it is reported to hold roughly **5,500 households** across about **20 towers** on a **95-acre** site, alongside a future waterfront aquatic centre, urban plaza, foreshore walkway and about 9.4 acres of parkland — plus around 1,700 jobs. It is a **presale** community: homes are new condos and townhomes released in phases (DEBUT, Encore), and **most on-site amenities are still future or under construction**. Today, daily life leans on adjacent Maillardville and the United Boulevard shops. Built by **Craig Johnston, Top 1% Team Member — Greater Vancouver REALTORS®** and 47+ year Coquitlam resident. Quick answer · Where is Fraser Mills, Coquitlam? Fraser Mills sits on the Fraser River waterfront at the foot of King Edward Street in southwest Coquitlam, just below Maillardville and beside the United Boulevard big-box district. It is a **presale condo and townhome** community — not detached housing — being built by Beedie in phases over roughly **15–20 years**. The first tower, **DEBUT** (36 storeys, 318 homes), released from the mid-$500,000s and sold out; **Encore** followed. Because it is presale, there is no separately published resale benchmark yet — the closest official reference is the citywide Coquitlam apartment HPI of **$653,900** (June 2026 GVR). The site is car-oriented today; the nearest SkyTrain is a short drive at Coquitlam Central or Braid/Sapperton. Project snapshot · reported figures ## The numbers, before the story. Fraser Mills is a presale, master-planned community — so the honest "snapshot" is the shape of the plan, not a resale price benchmark that doesn't exist yet. These are the reported figures from Beedie's application and public coverage; they evolved through the approval process, so treat them as approximate and phase-dependent, and confirm current details with Beedie before signing. [Presale Condo & townhome community Not detached · new construction](/coquitlam-condos-for-sale/) [~5,500 Homes at full build-out (reported) Talk to Craig](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) [~20 towers Across a phased master plan Built over 15–20 years](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) [95 acres Former Fraser River sawmill site Southwest Coquitlam](/where-to-buy-in-coquitlam/) [SD43 School district + catchments View school catchments](/coquitlam-schools/) [47 yrs Craig's Coquitlam residency Meet Craig](/coquitlam-realtor-craig-johnston/) Figures reported from the developer's application and public coverage; approximate and phase-dependent. For price context only, the June 2026 Greater Vancouver REALTORS® **citywide** Coquitlam apartment benchmark was **$653,900** (down 7.6% YoY) — that is a resale figure, not a Fraser Mills price. Presale prices, GST and deposits differ; confirm current pricing with Beedie. What it actually is ## An emerging waterfront neighbourhood, not a finished one. Fraser Mills is not a single condo tower — it is a whole new neighbourhood being built on land that has never been open to the public. For more than a century this stretch of the Fraser River was an industrial sawmill site, one of the largest lumber operations in British Columbia and the reason Maillardville exists. Beedie's approved master plan turns roughly 95 acres of that waterfront into a walkable community of homes, parks, shops and public riverfront — the only place in Coquitlam where you can buy new and live directly on the Fraser. The scale is genuinely large. Public reporting and the developer's plans describe on the order of 5,500 households across about 20 towers, plus roughly 1,700 jobs, woven together with a future waterfront aquatic centre, an urban plaza, a foreshore walkway and about 9.4 acres of parkland. **The honest part: most of that is future or under construction.** Today the site is an active, early-phase project, and the amenities that will define it — the aquatic centre, the plaza, the completed park network, the ground-floor retail — arrive over a 15–20 year build-out. If you buy here now, you are buying into a community that is still becoming itself. Because it sells and completes phase by phase, "buying at Fraser Mills" means something different depending on when you buy and which building. Early phases sit on the western parcels and move eastward. That timing — which phase, which completion year, and what else is finishing around it — matters more to your outcome than the marketing renderings, and it is exactly the part a good buyer's agent reads for you. Homes at Fraser Mills ## What you can actually buy here. Fraser Mills is a **presale condo and townhome** community — there is no detached housing. Homes release phase by phase, and availability, floor plans and pricing change with each release. Here's the honest breakdown of the product and how the timelines work. Condominiums The bulk of the community One-, two- and three-bedroom apartment homes across roughly 20 towers. DEBUT (the first tower) released from the mid-$500,000s and sold out; Encore followed as the next phase. Water exposure, floor level and view corridor drive resale spreads far more than in a landlocked building. Presale · new construction Townhomes Scarce · podium level A limited number of townhomes appear in the tower podiums (DEBUT included around 32). These are the scarcest product in each release and tend to go first to buyers who register early. If a ground-oriented home is your goal, positioning and timing matter. Presale · limited supply Rental & below-market Part of the mix Alongside the for-sale condos, the plan includes a block of market and below-market rental homes, concentrated in the earlier phases. That is a rental component, not a for-purchase one — useful context for how the community is designed to fill in. Community mix Completion timelines Years out · phased Presale homes complete years after you sign. New construction in BC adds 5% GST and a staged deposit schedule, and your financing gets re-qualified before completion. The right comparison is all-in cost and completion year — not "presale price vs. today's benchmark." Confirm phase timing with Beedie Schools & catchments ## Schools near Fraser Mills. Fraser Mills sits within the Maillardville / southwest Coquitlam area of **School District 43 (SD43)**. Catchments for a brand-new master-planned community can shift as it is built out and enrolment is planned — so rather than list specific school names that may not apply to your address or move-in year, the honest move is to verify the exact catchment in SD43's official locator. ### Verify your catchment SD43's locator is the authoritative source for any specific Fraser Mills address and grade level. - [Open the SD43 official school locator →](http://mybaragar.com/index.cfm?event=page.SchoolLocatorPublic&DistrictCode=bc43) - [See the full Coquitlam schools guide](/coquitlam-schools/) ### Why we don't name a specific school Enrolment planning for a new community evolves. We won't put a catchment school name on this page that a marketing sheet can't guarantee. - [SD43 district overview & how catchments work](/coquitlam-schools/) - [Maillardville guide — the established area up the hill](/maillardville-coquitlam-guide/) Parks & outdoors ## The waterfront is the whole point — eventually. What makes Fraser Mills different from every other Coquitlam presale is the river. The master plan dedicates about **9.4 acres of parkland** plus a foreshore walkway along the water, and keeps it public — but, honestly, much of it is **planned or under construction** and arrives across the phased build-out. In the meantime, the closest established green space is up the hill in Maillardville and across central Coquitlam. ### On-site (planned / future) Part of Beedie's approved plan — label these future until built. - [Fraser Mills waterfront park — ~9.4 acres (planned/future)](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) - [Foreshore walkway & riverfront plaza (planned/future)](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) ### Established green space nearby The parks Fraser Mills residents can actually use today. - [Mackin Park (Maillardville, 1046 Brunette Ave) — fields, ball diamonds, tennis, playground, spray park, large skate park](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Blue Mountain Park — central-Coquitlam urban forest & wading pool](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Coquitlam Parks & Trails — the full directory](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) Sports, activities & programs ## Where Fraser Mills families would play. Coquitlam's youth sports run through city-wide associations rather than by neighbourhood, so a Fraser Mills family taps the same clubs the rest of Coquitlam does. The nearest playing fields to Fraser Mills are at Mackin Park in Maillardville; the city's main arena-and-pool hub is the Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex. Here's the honest, association-by-association map. ### Youth sports associations The city-wide Coquitlam clubs families join — verified and current. - [Hockey — Coquitlam Minor Hockey Assoc. (Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex, 633 Poirier St)](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Soccer — Coquitlam Metro-Ford Soccer Club + North Coquitlam United](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Baseball — Coquitlam Moody Minor Baseball Assoc. + Coquitlam Reds (BC Premier Baseball League, play at Mundy Park)](/mundy-park-coquitlam-guide/) - [Lacrosse — Coquitlam Minor Lacrosse Assoc. (box lacrosse, Poirier)](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Football — Coquitlam Minor Football & Cheer (since 1978)](/town-centre-park-coquitlam/) ### Facilities nearest Fraser Mills The venues those associations actually use. - [Mackin Park (Maillardville) — the nearest fields, ball diamonds, tennis & skate park](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex (633 Poirier St) — arenas, pool, fitness](/coquitlam-parks-and-trails/) - [Town Centre Park — Percy Perry Stadium & turf fields](/town-centre-park-coquitlam/) - [Mundy Park — diamonds, lacrosse box, forest trails](/mundy-park-coquitlam-guide/) Shopping, dining & daily life ## Where daily life happens today. Fraser Mills' own retail and urban plaza are **part of the future plan** — label them planned until built. In the meantime, the useful stuff is genuinely close: heritage Maillardville up the hill, and the United Boulevard big-box strip right next door cover the everyday run, with Coquitlam Centre a short drive for anything bigger. ### Maillardville & United Boulevard The established, walkable-adjacent daily-life anchors beside Fraser Mills. - [Maillardville — one of Western Canada's largest French-Canadian communities; Brunette Avenue & Heritage Square dining and heritage district](/maillardville-coquitlam-guide/) - [United Boulevard big-box strip — IKEA, Real Canadian Superstore, Coquitlam VIP Cinemas, furniture retailers](/coquitlam-condos-for-sale/) ### On-site (planned) & the regional mall What's coming to Fraser Mills, and where the bigger shop happens now. - [Fraser Mills retail & urban plaza (planned/future, later phases)](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) - [Coquitlam Centre — the region's major mall, a short drive](/north-coquitlam-town-centre-guide/) Who it's for ## The honest trade-offs of buying early. Fraser Mills suits a specific buyer. First-time buyers get a new-construction entry point into an appreciating waterfront district, often below detached and townhome pricing. Investors get new stock next to future public amenity. Downsizers get a lock-and-leave lifestyle with the river at the door. But it is an emerging community, and that cuts both ways — here's the balanced read. Pro Rare public riverfront The only place in Coquitlam to buy new directly on the Fraser — a durable, scarce value anchor in Metro Vancouver. Pro New-construction value entry Brand-new condos, often priced below detached and townhome tiers, with the chance to buy into a district before it's finished. Pro Buyer's agent is free here On a BC presale the developer pays the buyer's agent — representation costs you nothing and changes the outcome. Con Completion & construction risk Homes complete years out; you re-qualify financing before closing, and early phases live beside an active construction site. Con Amenities are mostly future The aquatic centre, plaza, completed parks and retail arrive over 15–20 years — not on day one. Daily life leans on Maillardville for now. Con Car-oriented today No SkyTrain at your door — the nearest rapid transit (Coquitlam Central, Braid/Sapperton) is a short drive, not a walk. Fraser Mills FAQ ## The questions buyers ask. What is Fraser Mills in Coquitlam? Fraser Mills is an approved, master-planned waterfront community by Beedie (Beedie Living) on the former Fraser Mills sawmill site (around 2 King Edward Street) on the Fraser River in southwest Coquitlam. Reported plans call for roughly 5,500 households across about 20 towers, plus around 1,700 jobs, a future waterfront aquatic centre, urban plaza, foreshore walkway and about 9.4 acres of parkland — built out over 15 to 20 years. Most on-site amenities are still future or under construction. Who is the developer of Fraser Mills? Beedie (Beedie Living), one of the largest private developers in British Columbia, is the developer of the Fraser Mills master-planned community. What kind of homes can you buy at Fraser Mills? Presale condominiums and a limited number of townhomes — there is no detached housing. Homes release phase by phase (DEBUT, then Encore), so availability, floor plans and pricing change with each release. The plan also includes a block of market and below-market rental homes, concentrated in the earlier phases. When will Fraser Mills be built and completed? Fraser Mills is planned as a phased build-out over roughly 15 to 20 years, beginning on the western parcels and moving eastward. The first tower, DEBUT, is a 36-storey building of 318 homes. Confirm current per-phase timing with Beedie's official materials. How much do Fraser Mills homes cost? The first release, DEBUT, opened with reported starting prices from the mid-$500,000s and sold out. There is no separate resale benchmark for Fraser Mills yet; for context, the June 2026 Greater Vancouver REALTORS® *citywide* Coquitlam apartment benchmark was $653,900 — a resale figure, not a Fraser Mills price. New construction adds 5% GST and staged deposits, and prices change with each release, so confirm current pricing with Beedie. Is there transit and shopping at Fraser Mills now? Today the site is car-oriented; the nearest rapid transit is a short drive at Coquitlam Central (Millennium Line) or Braid/Sapperton (Expo Line). Fraser Mills' own retail and urban plaza are part of the future plan, so daily shopping currently leans on adjacent Maillardville and the United Boulevard big-box strip (IKEA, Real Canadian Superstore, Coquitlam VIP Cinemas), with [Coquitlam Centre](/north-coquitlam-town-centre-guide/) a short drive away. Should I use a REALTOR® to buy a Fraser Mills presale? Yes — and it costs you nothing. On a BC presale, the buyer's agent commission is built into the developer's budget and paid by the developer. A buyer's agent reads the disclosure statement before your deposit clears, reads the floor plan and position like a buyer, sanity-checks the presale price against resale comps, and manages the multi-year build window. [Book a strategy call](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) for an honest presale-vs-resale plan. Who's writing this ## Why 47+ years in Coquitlam matters when you're buying at Fraser Mills. I'm not a Fraser Mills resident — nobody is yet; it's still being built — and I won't pretend otherwise. What I am is a 47+ year Coquitlam local who has watched this city's neighbourhoods trade through cycle after cycle, including how master-planned communities fill in over time. On a presale like Fraser Mills, that experience shows up in the boring, expensive details: reading the disclosure statement, reading the floor plan and the position like a buyer instead of a marketer, and sanity-checking the presale price against resale comps. That's the read a fly-in agent can't copy. ### Craig Johnston, REALTOR® Tri-Cities Move-Up Specialist · 47+ year Coquitlam resident · Top 1% Team Member — Greater Vancouver REALTORS® · Top 2% Team Member — Royal LePage nationwide · Medallion Club Team Member since 2021 · The MACNABS Team · Royal LePage Elite West · BCFSA #V99960. Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore, Belcarra. 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Whether you're weighing a DEBUT or Encore-style release, comparing a presale against Coquitlam resale, or sequencing a sell-and-buy to move here — the next step is the same. A 20-minute call, no pressure, every question answered. On a presale, the developer pays the buyer's agent, not you. [Book a 20-min strategy call](/book-a-strategy-call-with-craig-johnston/) [Get my home value](/home-evaluation/) [Call 604-202-6092](tel:+16042026092) Best REALTOR® by area ## A specialist for your specific Tri-Cities city or neighbourhood. 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Presale details (DEBUT, Encore) reflect public listings and are subject to change. Always verify current, phase-specific details with Beedie's official materials before signing. Content reflects Craig Johnston's professional opinion and experience; it is not legal, tax or financial advice.