SECURITY GUARDS IN BURNABY

Burnaby Security Guards: Coverage Built for a City With Four Downtowns

Burnaby doesn’t have one downtown core the way most cities do. It has four: Metrotown, Brentwood, Lougheed, and Edmonds, each one functioning as its own self-contained hub of construction, retail, and residential density. A provider that treats “Burnaby” as a single location is already behind. Securico schedules guards by town centre, not by city.

The Burnaby security brief

• Population: 249,125 within city limits (2021 Census), making Burnaby the third-largest city in BC
• Construction: 57 buildings taller than 100 metres as of 2026, more than any other city in BC, including the province’s tallest tower, Two Gilmore Place in Brentwood
• Film industry: home to more than 60% of BC’s purpose-built sound stages, anchored by Bridge Studios’ expanding campuses
• Retail: Metropolis at Metrotown is BC’s largest shopping centre and the third-largest mall in Canada, at roughly 1.7 million square feet

The Burnaby market

Most cities grow around a single centre. Burnaby grew around four, and each one developed its own identity: Metrotown as the retail and transit hub, Brentwood as the vertical construction story, Lougheed as the next one coming up behind it, and Edmonds as the quieter residential edge. For a security provider, that means a site in Brentwood and a site in Edmonds can have almost nothing in common, even though they’re both technically “Burnaby.”

What’s driving demand

Burnaby is mid-boom on at least three fronts at once. Highrise construction is outpacing every other city in the province, concentrated heavily in Brentwood and Lougheed. Bridge Studios has been steadily expanding its film production footprint for years, adding sound stages and support space that need to stay secure between productions. And Metropolis at Metrotown alone represents a retail environment dense enough that loss prevention isn’t optional, it’s baseline. Add the industrial activity in South Burnaby’s Big Bend corridor, and four separate demand drivers are running in parallel across the city.

Where the risk actually concentrates

• Metrotown: Burnaby’s regional city centre, combining BC’s largest shopping mall with heavy ongoing highrise redevelopment around it.
• Brentwood: home to Two Gilmore Place, BC’s tallest building, and one of the most active highrise construction zones in the province.
• Lougheed: a newer town centre following Brentwood’s pattern, with major redevelopment underway near the SkyTrain interchange.
• Edmonds: the quietest of the four town centres, with growing residential density and steady infill construction.
• Big Bend (South Burnaby): an industrial-zoned corridor home to warehouse operations and Bridge Studios’ newer production campuses, creating overlap between industrial and film security needs.

A quirk most security providers miss

A lot of national providers schedule Burnaby as a single zone, one guard pool covering everything from Metrotown to Big Bend. That works fine until two town centres need coverage on the same night, which happens constantly given how much construction and retail activity is running in parallel across the city. Securico schedules by town centre specifically, and every contract gets custom post orders built around which of Burnaby’s four hubs the site actually sits in, not a generic city-wide checklist.

Industries we serve in Burnaby

Construction & Development
Brentwood and Lougheed’s highrise boom, including work near towers like Two Gilmore Place, gets guards with WorkSafeBC awareness and comfort operating around active trades and moving equipment.

Film & TV Production
With over 60% of BC’s sound stages based here, Burnaby film work gets guards trained for discretion around talent and crew, NDA-level confidentiality, and utilizing the production’s radio comms.

Retail
Metropolis at Metrotown and the surrounding retail core get guards with a clear apprehension protocol and experience providing statements if a theft escalates to charges.

Industrial & Warehouse
Big Bend’s warehouse and logistics operations get guards with WHMIS awareness and comfort working around forklift traffic and loading activity.

What you actually get with Burnaby security guards from Securico

• A named account manager: someone who already knows whether your site is in Metrotown, Brentwood, Lougheed, or Edmonds, and what that means for coverage, instead of starting from zero.
• Custom post orders: patrol routes and priorities built around your specific town centre, since a Brentwood highrise and an Edmonds infill project need different things.
• The same guard, whenever possible: consistency across shifts instead of a rotating roster who needs the property explained every time.
• A guaranteed replacement window: if a scheduled guard calls in sick, that gap gets covered without becoming your problem to solve.

Burnaby coverage area

Securico covers all four of Burnaby’s town centres and the Big Bend corridor, plus the following nearby communities:

• Vancouver, about 12 km west
• New Westminster, about 5 km southeast
• Coquitlam, about 10 km east
• Surrey, about 20 km southeast, across the Fraser River

The full list of cities Securico serves across the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, and the Sunshine Coast covers considerably more ground than this.

What Burnaby clients say

Securico is a 5-star rated Burnaby security company that consistently ranks amongst the top three in our industry.

“I availed the company’s security services for more than a year in 2022 – 23. They are very punctual and honest in terms of their duties and responsibilities. For being a satisfied client I can say that Securico is the best security company in British Columbia.”
– AK, Google Review

Getting started

If your current guard couldn’t tell you what happened on your Burnaby site last night, whichever town centre it’s in, that’s worth a conversation. Request a custom quote or call 604-GUARDED, and we’ll build coverage around the specific site you actually have.