Willowbrook Shopping Centre

Willowbrook Shopping Centre is the main shopping and social anchor for all of Langley. Opened in 1978 and substantially expanded and renovated multiple times since, it now has over 160 stores across 650,000+ square feet, sitting right on the border between the City of Langley and the Township. Anchor tenants include Walmart, Hudson's Bay, Winners, London Drugs, Save-On-Foods, and a Cineplex movie theatre. For everyday shopping — groceries, household goods, clothes, a haircut, a movie — Willowbrook is where everyone in Langley eventually goes.

For newcomers, Willowbrook is particularly useful as a cultural meeting point. The mall's food court and the surrounding commercial strip have a substantial Korean and South Asian retail presence reflecting Langley's demographic mix — H-Mart Korean grocery, a Pakistani food hall on the adjacent Langley Bypass, several Indo-Canadian restaurants and sweet shops, a handful of Filipino grocers, and the mall's annual Diwali and Lunar New Year events. It's also home to Shoppers Drug Mart, which in Canada is the most common pharmacy chain for prescription refills — useful to know in the first weeks after arriving.

The mall also sits at the planned Willowbrook SkyTrain station of the Surrey–Langley extension. When the station opens in 2028–2029 it will fundamentally change the mall's role — from a car-destination regional mall to a transit-accessible urban shopping centre. Several new high-rise residential towers are already rising adjacent to the mall in anticipation of that shift.