Broadway Subway station entrance buildings begin to take shape above ground | Daily Hive

Construction progress on Oak-VGH Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

With roughly 18 months to go until opening day, there are more major visual signs of progress on the Broadway Subway construction project, with the first few standalone station entrance buildings now taking shape above ground.

Clear progress on the structures of these entrance buildings — also technically known as station houses — can now be seen at the future locations of Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station (corner of Great Northern Way and Thornton Street), Mount Pleasant Station (corner of Main Street and Broadway), and Oak-VGH Station (corner of Laurel Street and Broadway).

Four of the six subway stations feature wooden ceilings at the station entrance level: Mount Pleasant Station, Broadway-City Hall Station, Oak-VGH Station, and Arbutus Station. Broadway-City Hall Station’s entrance will be a seamless eastward expansion of the existing Canada Line station house.

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For the stations with standalone entrance buildings, wooden ceiling panels were lifted into place for installation on top of the steel frame of each station house structure. At Oak-VGH Station, each wood ceiling panel weighed about 1,400 kg.

These station houses will be enclosed by glass walls, allowing natural light to pour into the interior while also aligning with optimal Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles. These standalone structures are also designed for a future overhead building addition in the longer run — similar to the Cambie Star building above SkyTrain’s King Edward Station — as part of the eventual development of the adjacent areas used as a staging and storage area for the subway construction project.

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Construction progress on Mount Pleasant Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

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Construction progress on Oak-VGH Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

Construction progress on Arbutus Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

The station house for Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station is different from the structures with wooden ceiling panels, as it will instead feature a concrete roof that could potentially accommodate future integration with PCI Developments’ adjacent high-density, mixed-use redevelopment.

An outlier among the station entrance designs is South Granville Station, which is fully integrated into the ground level of PCI Developments’ 2025-built, 39-storey The Stories tower at the northeast corner of the intersection of West Broadway and Granville Street. The station entrance will be prominently situated at the building’s corner facing the intersection. Other uses within the building include a 22,000-sq.-ft. Loblaws City Market grocery store — opening on June 26, 2026 — along with 7,000 sq. ft. of additional ground-level retail and restaurant space, 106,000 sq. ft. of office space, and 226 secured purpose-built rental homes.

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Installed condition of Sínulhḵay at The Stories tower at South Granville Station, as of June 2, 2025. (Kenneth Chan)

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Concept of Sínulhḵay at The Stories tower, outside the entrance into South Granville Station. (PCI Developments)

All six subway stations on SkyTrain’s Millennium Line Broadway extension to Arbutus will have at least three levels, including the ground-level entrance, an underground concourse/mezzanine level, and the platform level. Broadway-City Hall Station — with its underground pathway network providing direct, seamless transfers between the Canada Line and Millennium Line platforms — will have a total of four levels.

Work is also well underway on extending the length of this station’s Canada Line platforms by 10 metres to 50 metres to provide passengers with more waiting and circulation area, and crews have just begun the process of knocking down the concrete walls at the bottom of the staircase/escalators on the platform level to establish the openings to the underground pathways.

Across the project, construction is now progressing on station structures and interiors, including the installation of escalators, elevators, and other mechanical equipment, as well as the completion of track installation.

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SkyTrain Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

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SkyTrain Mount Pleasant Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

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SkyTrain Broadway-City Hall Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

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SkyTrain Oak-VGH Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

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Artistic rendering of The Stories tower with the future South Granville Station at 1477 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership/PCI Developments)

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SkyTrain Arbutus Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

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SkyTrain Arbutus Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

As of last month, track installation had reached 100 per cent completion for the running rails, linear induction motor (LIM) rail, and power rail between the existing VCC-Clark Station and Broadway-City Hall Station on the westbound track, and between VCC-Clark Station and the tunnel portal just east of Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station on the eastbound track. Running rail installation has now reached 100 per cent completion throughout the entire extension, while LIM rail installation has also been completed on the westbound tunnel segment between Broadway-City Hall Station and Arbutus Station.

As well, as of last month, initial system testing using an active two-car Mark I train began on the completed segment of westbound track. As additional track sections are completed, testing will gradually expand, including the use of other SkyTrain train models.

Closer to opening day, the Millennium Line’s Broadway extension will undergo extensive stress testing under real-world operating conditions, with trains running throughout the day at normal service frequencies and stopping at each of the six new subway stations.

Above the five subway station structures along Broadway, work is progressing on installing new underground utilities, filling the void above the station roofs with compacted gravel, and restoring the roadway at each station construction site to its final permanent configuration of four vehicle traffic lanes — two in each direction — along with wider pedestrian sidewalks that occupy the space formerly used for curbside parking.

The Mount Pleasant Station construction block of Broadway between Main Street and Quebec Street reopened with two vehicle traffic lanes last month following a four-month full closure and detour required to remove the temporary traffic deck bridge and complete roadway restoration work. The restoration of all four vehicle traffic lanes is expected within the next few weeks.

Construction progress on Mount Pleasant Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

Later this summer, shortly after the FIFA World Cup, Broadway between Cambie Street and Alberta Street will undergo a two-block-long full road closure for approximately six months, with a detour in place. This closure is required to similarly remove the temporary traffic deck and restore the roadway above the subway station structure. More details on the closure and detour will be released closer to the start date.

The provincial government has confirmed that full road closures are not required for the remaining station sites.

This six-km-long Millennium Line extension to Arbutus is slated to open in late Fall 2027.

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