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Prado Café, one of Metro Vancouver’s best-known homegrown specialty coffee brands, is expanding to Burquitlam with a new location at Botanica, our residential community now nearing Fall 2026 move-in.

The new café will occupy Botanica’s ground-floor commercial retail space at 660 Gardena Drive, with a street-facing entrance and dedicated outdoor patio. It will serve as a neighbourhood gathering place for residents and the surrounding Burquitlam community as the area continues to see significant residential growth.

The announcement brings together two local success stories: Prado Café, a Metro Vancouver coffee brand now operating 10 locations across the region, and Qualex-Landmark™, a Vancouver-based family-owned developer with more than three decades of experience building residential communities across Metro Vancouver.

“Prado Coffee has always been about local neighbourhoods,” said Andrea and Sammy Piccolo of Prado Coffee. “Joining the Botanica community in the heart of Burquitlam is especially meaningful for us. Coquitlam has been home to our family for more than 20 years, and we started our family just a couple of blocks away.”

Founded by Sammy Piccolo, a multiple-time Canadian Barista Champion, Prado Coffee has grown from a local café into one of Metro Vancouver’s recognized specialty coffee brands. Its new Botanica location marks a continuation of that growth, bringing Prado’s neighbourhood-focused model to one of the region’s most active transit-oriented communities.

The partnership also continues an existing relationship between Prado and Qualex-Landmark™. Prado’s Dunbar location at Legacy, another Qualex-Landmark™ community, has become a well-used neighbourhood gathering place, serving residents, neighbours, and the surrounding Dunbar community.

The Botanica announcement comes as the community reaches one of its most important construction milestones to date. This month, Qualex-Landmark™ opened Botanica’s first completed building for an exclusive preview with valued Realtor partners, offering an early look inside the lobby, two furnished display homes, and two newly staged townhome displays as the community moves from construction to completion.

With move-in anticipated for Fall 2026, the preview marked a shift from renderings to reality as Botanica’s first building nears completion and the broader community continues to take shape. “Botanica is reaching the stage where people can walk through the real building and see the community coming to life,” says Cyrus Navabi, President at Qualex-Landmark™. “Prado’s arrival adds an important neighbourhood piece to that story. It brings daily life to the ground floor.”

The milestone comes amid continued construction progress and sustained sales activity at Botanica, despite a more selective real estate market. Construction tours are now available by appointment.