Garrison Woods

Location: Calgary, AB Canada. Former Canadian Forces Site

"• Garrison Woods represents the redevelopment of a 176- acre (160 gross developable acres) portion of the former Canadian Forces Base Calgary site. This site, formerly used for military housing, has been transformed into a liveable, inner-city community located 10 minutes from Calgary’s downtown. • Garrison Woods contains over 1,600 housing units of various types together with retail, institutional, and open space uses to create a compact, pedestrian-friendly community, based on the principles of smart growth and sustainable development. • Garrison Woods is characterized by many innovative and sustainable initiatives including: • reusing and integrating approximately 400 former military housing units rather than demolishing them and sending them to landfills; • providing a variety of housing types to accommodate people of different ages, needs, and lifestyles; • providing a mix of land uses where access to services from residences is within an easy walk, making the neighbourhood more convenient and safe; • increasing densities over those in surrounding communities that results in a more efficient use of land, infrastructure, and service in this already built-up area of the city; • providing a variety of high quality park spaces and integrating these with the street system to facilitate walkability and reduce reliance on the car; • introducing traffic-calming features to slow traffic and increase pedestrian comfort; and • recognizing the site’s military history by retaining existing street names and incorporating monuments that commemorate World War I battles fought by those stationed in Calgary. • Canada Lands saved hundreds of existing trees by designing around them and relocating them as necessary. • This former brownfield site was remediated to residential standards."

Transect Zone(s): T4 general, T5 center.
Status: Complete
Project or Plan's Scale: Neighborhood
Features: Affordable/subsidized housing, Bus transit, Civic buildings & parks, Live/work, Mixed uses, Sustainable infrastructure, Transit oriented development.
Land area (in acres): 176
Total built area (in sq. ft.):
Total project cost (in local currency):
Retail area (in sq. ft.): 70000
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Number of residential units (include live/work): 1600
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Residential types: Low-rise flats, Townhouse/rowhouse/maisonette, Semi-detached, Small lot detached, Large lot detached, Live/work.
Project team designers: Brown and Associates - Planning, Jenkins & Associates - Architecture, IBI Group - Landscape Architecture/Urban Design/Marketing Analysis, Stantec Consulting - Transportation
Project team developers: Canada Lands Company

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Starting/Ending date of construction/implementation: -