CALGARY — There’s something about Inglewood that touches my heart.
The neighbourhood, situated a stone’s throw away from the Bow River, has always held a soft spot for me.
Might be because it was the first place I lived when I first moved to Calgary over 32 years ago.
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Calgary aldermen, who usually mind their mouths when school boards close schools, warned Wednesday that vacating inner-city schools runs counter to city hall’s efforts to redevelop those older neighbourhoods.
The complaints emerged as council’s planning committee voted to end the city’s standard of telling boards that program or school closures won’t have community impact. Instead, the city will submit letters that note how a closure affects the ambitions of Plan It Calgary, the city’s long-range blueprint to limit outward sprawl.
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EDMONTON – Petrolia Mall has seen better days.
The parking lot is full of potholes, most of the space inside is vacant, and now even the Giant Tiger anchor store has pulled out.
“The mall used to be a really healthy place, full of good businesses that served the local residents. In the last couple decades, the whole thing has just fallen into a bit of a ruin,” says Michael Walters, civics director with the local community league.
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As city politicians muse over how to pay for future infrastructure upgrades in mature neighbourhoods, the idea of charging a new tax is now in the mix.
Ald. John Mar told fellow members of the city’s Priorities and Finance committee Tuesday the idea is very preliminary and needs more research, but he’s looking at how Edmonton’s neighbourhood renewal program could be applied to Calgary.
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CALGARY — A major Calgary home builder is venturing into the inner-city market to take advantage of a growing trend of people wanting to live close to the downtown.
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EDMONTON- Mayor Stephen Mandel says he has serious doubts that a proposed freeze on building subsidized housing in five low-income, inner-city neighbourhoods would help revitalize these communities or reduce crime.
“It don’t see what this will do to change the communities,” Mandel said Monday. “I think we’ll end up creating more problems.”
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Years after shuttering a crime-ridden downtown tavern, the city-owned Cecil Hotel continues languishing with no immediate plans for demolition or redevelopment.
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