Construction begins on 230 affordable townhomes in southeast Calgary

Amir Said · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 18, 2025 6:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

Families incapable to bargain a location astatine marketplace prices volition payment from a caller improvement successful southeast Calgary, accidental 2 city-created organizations that purpose to boost the proviso of attainable housing.

A concern betwixt the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and Attainable Homes Calgary is acceptable to bring 230 townhouses to the assemblage of Albert Park/Radisson Heights, with eligibility for these homes to beryllium based connected income.

The organizations, some created by the City of Calgary, finalized an statement for the task successful 2023 pursuing the CMLC's purchase of the onshore from the metropolis successful 2018.

CMLC president and CEO Kate Thompson called the improvement a important measurement successful navigating the city's lodging challenges.

"With Calgary's increasing colonisation and lodging demand, determination is simply a immense accidental and request for good designed, smartly delivered rental and condo homes," she said.

The task is located astatine the erstwhile David D. Oughton School site, a 3.5-hectare crippled of onshore astatine 1511 34 St. S.E.

Thompson said the determination provides casual entree to downtown Calgary arsenic good arsenic ample accidental for recreation.

"Re-investing successful our interior metropolis neighbourhoods and trying to summation density connected those spaces, it's tricky work," she said. "This 230-unit task goes a agelong mode successful making that happen."

The units scope from one- to five-bedroom townhouses, and volition beryllium built alongside the improvement of a 1.2-hectare greenish abstraction with an off-leash canine parkland and hoops courts.

The extremity is "to connection units that are importantly beneath marketplace terms close now," with prices ranging from $170,000 to $330,000, said Attainable Homes Calgary president and CEO Jaydan Tait.

"We're looking for radical that lend precise powerfully to Calgary's economy, Calgary's taste life, that conscionable can't beryllium successful a marketplace location close now," helium said.

Income volition beryllium the superior eligibility criterion, with those capable to spend a location astatine marketplace prices barred from purchasing from Attainable Homes, which works to assistance middle-income Calgarians execute location ownership.

"We person aggregate hundreds of radical that privation to unrecorded present close now," Tait said. "We are moving with those clients close present truthful they tin acquisition a location present successful the adjacent coming months."

The townhomes are designated arsenic owner-occupied, meaning they can't beryllium bought for the intent of renting them out.

Tait said the task is supporting section businesses amid ongoing economical uncertainty by gathering wood-frame townhouses that necessitate locally sourced materials, adding that they volition incorporated important hail resistance.

"It's a balancing enactment betwixt what our clients want, what is an due acceptable successful the neighborhood, and the viability of that financially," helium said. 

Families are expected to commencement moving successful adjacent spring.

The David D. Oughton tract task is 1 of respective being overseen by the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, which is besides moving toward gathering implicit 900 homes successful downtown Calgary's East Village. Construction of the archetypal 162 of those units is slated to statesman aboriginal this year.