Calgary's East Village master plan unveiled

Plans to transform 16 city blocks of urban blight into a vibrant downtown development were unveiled Wednesday morning. The East Village master plan sees the community divided into six character areas for housing, retail and park development. Planners hope to turn the urban dead-zone into the newest oldest coolest warmest neighbourhood in town

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[garycalgary]

the land is developed with basic amenities just ready for developers

[urbanewal]

Calgary is not known for creating great public spaces or architecture. The renderings look great and all, we'll see and judge when first phase is completed.

[devious222]

this is probably one of the more important urban renewal projects in canada. As an architecture student, i'm expecting a sensitively orchestrated and progressive development. a very successful precedent (when considering lower income and homeless demographics without displacing/over-genetrificatio­n) is the woodward's project by Henriquez Partners Architects in vancouver's downtown east.

I also have massive hopes for the kind eddy project. please, calgary, follow through!!

[devious222]

seems like an adequate amount of density - not too high and not too low (understandably there are less challenges given the urban environment in contrast to the brentwood plan, which is quite contentious). I am most pleased with the fact that some semblance of "progressive" architecture is shown in the plan instead of the typical nostalgic faux brick/stone nonsense that plagues so many new urbanist visions and so much of the garbage condos built in calgary in the early 2000s.

[devious222]

as opposed to what? A theme-park? Calgary needs new, dense urban communities in order to support a growing and more diversifying population and i'm actually quite pleased with what i see here.