Alpine Park I ?m I ?s I Dream Development

[MichaelS]

Creating a thread for Alpine Park, a new community in Calgary's SW. The location is on the west side of Tsuut'ina Trail, south of Fish Creek Park. It is a comprehensive suburban new greenfield community, this thread will focus on the denser projects of their planned Village Centre.

The marketing website for the community is here:

Alpine Park | An Ambitious Next-Generation Community in West Calgary

Founded on New Urbanist principles, Alpine Park is so close to the mountains, you can go after work.

alpinepark.ca

https://alpinepark.ca/village-centre/

Rendering of the community, looking west:

Village Centre Project Tracking Map:

1. Woodlands Alpine Park - Homes by Avi - Proposed

Woodland at Alpine Park | New Homes for Sale | Homes by Avi

Homes by Avi is building new homes in one of Calgary’s most coveted communities, Woodland at Alpine Park! Alpine park is ideal for first-time homeowners and growing families.

www.homesbyavi.com

2. Alpine Park Place - Cedarglen Living - Proposed

Alpine Park Place | Cedarglen Living

Cedarglen Living is an industry leader in the Calgary multi family community. With 10 years of experience, our team strives to provide award winning customer service.

www.cedarglenliving.com

3. Block 28 Commercial - Dream Development - Proposed

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Alpine Village, First Reveals - alpinepark

Alpine Park is rounding out a year of incredible progress with the announcement of the first four of a collection of almost 60 total retailers that will eventually occupy the three distinct districts within Alpine Village. For current residents, life in Alpine Park is already shaped by...

alpinepark.ca

4. Block 4 Apartments - Dream Development - Proposed

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[Surrealplaces]

Thanks for starting this thread @MichaelS

 

[Surrealplaces]

A couple more renders. It's a nice area of the city, I imagine the neighborhood won't have much trouble attracting residents, especially being so close to the ring road.

 

[kora]

Not bad for a suburb https://alpinepark.ca/stories-and-e...owing-community-at-2024-chba-national-awards/

 

[Mountain Man]

Would be super easy to get to K country from there, commuting downtown would be a pain but people seem willing to do those commutes.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

commuting downtown would be a pain but people seem willing to do those commutes.

Go to Woodpark and take the Max Yellow.

 

[badc0ffee]

It's not that far from Fish Creek station. There will probably be bus connections once Alpine Park is built out.

 

[whatchyyc]

the MAX 162 Avenue is planned between the ASP area and Somerset-Bridlewood, so it wouldn't be the worst
And actually if the province were to build suburban rail and include a station at Somerset the travel time might actually end up pretty decent.

 

[Turtle]

Interestingly, there was even LRT considered for 162 ave to connect to Somerset-Bridlewood station. Although it's from 2007, the Southwest Regional Policy Plan states a few times about the potential for LRT and I found it pretty neat!

 

[whatchyyc]

 

[AtlanticAvenue]

Interesting, there's definitely room in the median of 162nd avenue if they wanted to put a spur line in. I imagine the entirety of that peninsula of city that extends under the reserve would need to be built out first before the city even considers it.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

Interesting, there's definitely room in the median of 162nd avenue if they wanted to put a spur line in. I imagine the entirety of that peninsula of city that extends under the reserve would need to be built out first before the city even considers it.

In the year 2060?

 

[ByeByeBaby]

3. Block 28 Commercial - Dream Development - Proposed

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So the first commercial project in the 'Village Centre' consists mostly of:

• Gas station with drive-through carwash
• Drive-through A&W
• Drive-through Starbucks
• Drive-through bank
• Drive-through restaurant (hopefully McDonald's -- there's been one announced, but it's not in the DP plans, so that would be one extra drive through).

That feels exactly like "a vibrant hub where day-to-day convenience meets walkable charm". Walkable is doing a lot of work; I suppose Mt. Everest is climbable, if you try hard enough and don't mind the omnipresent risk of death.

I suppose the counter is that this is the 'convenience district', which maybe a suburban location like this has to have, and it's good to put all the car crap in one spot so the actual core of the village centre can be better; the counter-counter is that the village centre is a one-way couplet that has traffic entering free-flowing from a 130 km/h freeway.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

So the first commercial project in the 'Village Centre' consists mostly of:

• Gas station with drive-through carwash
• Drive-through A&W
• Drive-through Starbucks
• Drive-through bank
• Drive-through restaurant (hopefully McDonald's -- there's been one announced, but it's not in the DP plans, so that would be one extra drive through).

That feels exactly like "a vibrant hub where day-to-day convenience meets walkable charm". Walkable is doing a lot of work; I suppose Mt. Everest is climbable, if you try hard enough and don't mind the omnipresent risk of death.

I suppose the counter is that this is the 'convenience district', which maybe a suburban location like this has to have, and it's good to put all the car crap in one spot so the actual core of the village centre can be better; the counter-counter is that the village centre is a one-way couplet that has traffic entering free-flowing from a 130 km/h freeway.

I always though things like this should have a front and a back, I grew up in MacKenzie Towne when it was very new, the High Street was pretty well done. There's a bit more there now but initially when it was just the street and some angled parking for a kid I thought it worked well.

Also, that park and ride is so ready for a Green Line stop... It is going to be another Billion to get to Seton which is just crazy.

 

[CT (Chinese_T)]

Here is another render and a lot map