Moody Centre is where Port Moody started. The railway ended here, the town grew up around the station, and the streets north and south of St. Johns still carry that mill town bones and character feel.
The homes run from century old houses climbing the slope to low rise condos and newer mid rise buildings near the station. It is the most walkable and most lived in part of the city, with the waterfront at the bottom of the hill.
2711 to 2751 Spring Street and 95 Moody Street · from $699,900
84 Grant Street and 2701 Clarke Street · from $485,000
3105 St George Street and 3021 St George Street and 84 Douglas Street · from $1,038,000
2808 St George Street and 2807 St Andrews Street · from $1,169,000
3347 Dewdney Trunk Road
3339 Dewdney Trunk Road
3018 St George Street and 3038 St George Street · from $569,000
150 James Road and 154 James Road · from $450,000
2315 St George Street and 2801 to 2841 Hugh Street and 2802 to 2846 Hope Street
2306 St Andrews Street and 2316 St Andrews Street and 2315 St Johns Street · from $1,099,999
Daily life in Moody Centre runs along two streets. St. Johns carries the shops and services, Clarke Street keeps the older village feel, and Murray Street faces the water with the park and the breweries. Almost everything below is a walk from almost every front door in the pocket.
There is no big supermarket in the core itself, and that is part of the texture here. Euroheart Market and Deli on St. Johns covers the everyday shop, Eden West Gourmet on Kyle Street does the specialty side, and Shoppers Drug Mart, Pharmasave, Zen Pharmacy and Inlet Pharmacy are all on the corridor. Full grocery runs land at the edges, Save-On-Foods on Ioco Road or Thrifty Foods over in Suter Brook.
Brewers Row runs along Murray Street facing the park, five breweries in a row with patios, North Point, Parkside, Rewind, Yellow Dog and Twin Sails, and Train Wreck Brewing carries the story onto St. Johns. Gabi and Jules on Clarke Street is the pie stop, Grit Studio pairs coffee with a gallery inside a heritage building, and Black Sugar, Outpost with Timbertrain and the Omega Cafe cover the morning side.
Scotiabank anchors the banking on St. Johns, with a TD ATM at the Chevron and the full TD branch a short hop away in Suter Brook. Zen Medical and its pharmacy share an address on St. Johns, Pomo Health Co sits in the east core, and the Workshop Performance Clinic handles physio on Murray Street.
Rocky Point Park is the city's front yard. A recreational pier, a boat launch, kayak and paddleboard rentals, an outdoor pool, a skate park and a spray park, all on the water. The Shoreline Trail runs from the park along the inlet to Old Orchard Park, and the Port Moody Recreation Complex sits a short hop north on Ioco Road.
The POMO Museum lives inside the 1908 CPR station beside the park, with the restored Venosta sleeper car alongside. PoMoArts runs galleries and hundreds of classes a year out of the old city hall on St. Johns. The farmers market sets up at the Recreation Complex, Sunday mornings through the winter and Wednesday evenings in the summer.
Moody Centre Station is the only stop in the city that runs both trains. The West Coast Express reaches downtown in about 25 minutes, and SkyTrain runs west through Lougheed and east into Coquitlam. Buses run along St. Johns, and Clarke Street one block north still reads as the village main street it has always been.
Moody Elementary
Kindergarten to grade 5. The elementary catchment for Moody Centre addresses, about a kilometre west along the corridor. The school is on the district list of schools at or near capacity, so placement can be tight.
École Moody Middle School of the Arts
Grades 6 to 8, right here in the pocket. An arts focused middle school with late French immersion, a few hundred metres from most Moody Centre homes.
Port Moody Secondary
Grades 9 to 12, right here in the pocket. The designated secondary for Moody Centre addresses, so most kids in this pocket finish school without leaving the neighbourhood.
Catchments are set by School District 43 and they do shift over time. Before you buy on a school, confirm the exact address with the district school locator. And ask Lucas. He reads these catchments the way every parent here does, with his own kid in mind.
Homes in Moody Centre do not sit long when they are priced right, and a good share trade hands quietly. Join the watch list for this pocket and Lucas will flag new Moody Centre listings as they land, plus the ones that never make the public sites.