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Conceptual drawings show reimagined district around McMahon Stadium, new field house

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A city council committee got a first look Monday at a draft design to redevelop the 100-acre site at Foothills Athletic Park and the McMahon Stadium lands.

The long-range development calls for a massive overhaul of the area with a new long-awaited indoor field house, outdoor fields, renovations to the aging McMahon Stadium, a “four-season plaza,” tailgating alleys, hotels and mixed-use residential buildings.

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The redesigned sports district, still in its preliminary stages, would cluster multiple facilities or assets owned or operated by the City, the University of Calgary and the McMahon Stadium Society. The new field house would be built on the current site of the Foothills Stadium.

In 2019, council dedicated $19 million in “startup funding” from developer-funded levies to proceed with design and planning work associated with a new field house at Foothills Athletic Park. While the city’s project “roadmap” suggests construction on a field house could begin as early as 2022 and be completed by 2024, city officials acknowledged that build-out of the area could take between 10 and 20 years.

There isn’t currently a cost estimate associated with the project as a whole.

Coun. George Chahal chairs the Foothills Athletic Park Redevelopment Advisory Committee. He said the next step is working on a business case for the redevelopment, and further advocacy to the provincial and federal governments about helping to build the field house.

That project alone is estimated to cost upwards of $235 million. The University of Calgary president said in 2020 that the institution can’t afford to contribute to those costs.

“We need to create a plan to attract investments and other funding mechanisms,” Chahal said.

“We do need commitment of funding from other orders of government, other partners, to see (the field house) happen.”

If work proceeds as planned, council will see more information on the project in September, at its final meeting before the municipal election in October.

“This is a very complex project with a lot of stakeholders that have come together to make and build this plan,” Chahal said.

“The field house is one part of the recreation plan, but then there’s also the opportunity for residential housing and retail, and other exciting opportunities as well.”

Here are some of the conceptual drawings that councillors saw Monday.

— With files from Madeline Smith

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Supporting public investment in important amenities, such as Bus Rapid Transit, a public library, and other neighbourhood institutions. E.g. bringing in the minimum 10,000 community residents required to initiate the development of a local elementary school

The subject site is approximate 1.30 hectares (3.22 acres) in size and is currently zoned for multi-residential development of medium height and density (M-2). The maximum height permitted under this zoning is 16.0 metres which could accommodate 161 units, in a 4 – 5 storey buildings. Sage Hill Crossing is intended to be a 290 unit residential development on the subject site of up to six storeys, and 20-22 m in height for purpose-built rental. Therefore the site will be rezoned to allow for High Density, Low Rise multi-residential development (M-H1).

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Current Zoning

Max. 16 m/4-5 storeys

Min. 60 units/hectare

Min. 110 Min. 47

Proposed Zoning

Max. 26 m/8 storeys

Min. 150 units/hectare

Min. 378 Min. 174

Proposed Development

Max. 20-22 m/6 storeys

224 units/hectare

* Floor to Area Ration (FAR) implies that the maximum developable floor area allowed for this site is 4 times the area of the lot, while the proposal is only 2 times the area of the lot.

** The proposal is requesting an 8% relaxation on parking provided, due to the site being within a 600 m walk, on defined pedestrian pathways, of an approved Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station. The current land use bylaw allows up to a 10% relaxation under these conditions.

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Street level view of the south west face, with north eastern orientation

Street level view of the north face, looking southward into the site

Aerial view with north orientation

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