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With three SkyTrain stations, an excellent road network, and convenient connections to the entire region, Surrey City Centre continues to attract new residents and businesses.As the commercial and residential core of the “City of Parks”, Surrey City Centre offers residents, employees, and visitors opportunities through a network of parks and facilities. It also offers a range of transportation options, including three Skytrain stations, rail facilities, . Surrey City Centre also stands apart from most other regional facilities due to its proximity to a deep water port on the Fraser River, and the Vancouver International and Abbotsford airports. With these facilities and good supply of nearby industrial land, Surrey City Centre offers developers and businesses a convenient location for head and ancillary office development.

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Housing

Surrey City Centre’s large land area provides older, single family homes, new condominiums and residential towers. Over the past ten years, development has focused on a series of residential towers clustered around the centre's two major SkyTrain stations, Gateway and Surrey Central. With its mix of housing opportunities, easy transportation connections, and proximity to major employment centres, Surrey City Centre is popular with a wide range of home buyers and renters, from single professionals to young families. Compared to the rest of Surrey, the rental rate is double in the City Centre (30% versus 60%).

Jobs

From 1996 to 2001, Surrey City Centre added an additional 1,500 jobs. Health and Social services account for over 3,600 jobs in Downtown Surrey.

Population

With a variety of affordable housing and tenure types, Surrey City Centre continues to attract a mix of younger buyers and renters as its population continues to grow. Over the past decade, Surrey City Centre's population has become younger, with the largest increase in population of people between 0 and 34 years of age.

Transportation

Surrey City Centre offers easy and convenient access to Vancouver International Airport, major highways, municipalities, and the U.S. The City Centre’s three SkyTrain stations make connections to surrounding communities easy, with Downtown Vancouver a 35 minute trip.

Community facilities

From full-service recreation centres and libraries, to a network of beautiful parks and paths, there is no shortage of indoor and outdoor recreational and leisure pursuits in Surrey Centre.

In addition to municipal services, Surrey City Centre houses a number of educational institutions and government offices. The most recent addition is Simon Fraser University Surrey, a campus with 75,000 square feet of classroom, lab, and office space. At present 450 undergraduate and 55 graduate students study Information Technology and Interactive Arts at the schools. The number of undergraduate students is planned to increase to 600 in September 2003, and 800 in September 2004. Kwantlen College, BC's largest university college, borders Surrey Centre and provides an array of university transfer, and degree programs.

Commercial-retail/offices

Long before its designation as a regional town centre, Surrey City Centre functioned as a regional retail and commercial centre. In recent years the area has experienced significant growth in office development, with a new office complex at Surrey City Centre SkyTrain station adding almost 1,000,000 new square feet of office space and SFU's Surrey Campus in 2003.