White: Dalhousie Station grew from trailer park to TOD village

I’ll bet not many Calgarians remember when the land occupied by Dalhousie Station shopping centre today used to be a trailer park. Yes, back in the early 1990s, Safeway bought the land, developed a new trailer park for the residents (unlike how the City of Calgary managed Midfield Mobile Home Park) and then in 1996, opened a new Safeway store to anchor the new shopping centre in anticipation of the extension of the northwest line of the LRT. (Note: the Dalhousie CTrain station didn’t open until 2003.) Since then, the land around the station has gradually been redeveloped with new residential development surrounding the shopping centre and LRT Station.

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