East Village, Calgary

The place where Calgary was born is where its future will unfold!
East Village sits on the eastern edge of downtown Calgary but you may not know it and you've probably never been there. Yet in 1875, not so long ago, 'EV' was downtown in its entirety. Back then East Village streets were home to blacksmiths, newspapers, hotels, copshops, big shots, workers and dreamers.
Today, East Village is home to very few buildings but lots of big ideas. Planners were inspired by the most liveable urban areas in the world to trasform EV into an 'urban village', a place of considerable density with many different kind of residences - apartments, condos and townhomes - but no single family homes on big lots. EV sits at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers and will have a mixed-use character, meaning that a single building could house both a business and a residence which is key to creating life on the street day and night. And, East Village will be designed first for people and then for cars, so you'll be able to walk from one place to another safely and easily. There will be intriguing places to eat, fabulous window shopping to do, new places to work and live and interesting people to watch. It'll be a living and breathing place. And the experience of it will feel... very very good. For some lucky Calgarians, it'll feel like home.

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Education

Tags:

• development;
• urban
• village;
• Calgary;
• homes;

[iStig]

Looks amazing. Glad there's going to be some high density there. Makes for a better urban atmosphere.

[DannySmith300]

nice music haha nice :P FOR THE ALLIANCE!!

[andrewneedsalawn]

0:48 - what the hell is the TD tower doing one block north of the Bow?? I can tell this was made in a hurry, hahahaha

[garycalgary]

I've been through that area and the solar powered garbage cans are kinda cool and everything looks nice.

I thought the University of Calgary was supposed to be going in and the land is spoken for.

This time it looks like it won't be a dud and the CMLC did a great job

[garycalgary]

@calgaryjonathan 17th avenue was supposed to be a gay village. They tried hard but it just doesn't work because business owners don't want a gay village......

[calgaryjonathan]

Make a Gay Village, the gays make everything nicer and more stylish,once a city has a gay village that means that is a city that is making it big in the world like all major big Metropolises of the world increasing tourism and market value by tenfolds its a seriously good investment. :D

[rubick79]

I agree with garycalgary, it seems very congested. I would prefer to see more green spaces within the city blocks rather than only making the riverside pedestrian friendly.

[garycalgary]

it's ultra modern but it will still be filled with cramped building and there should be more green space

my worry is that this will never get done since it's been such a blight for so many years