The Canada Lands Company refurbishes surplus military bases into New Urbanist neighborhoods.
"Currie Barracks, about five miles southwest of downtown Calgary, is the last of three major projects CLC will develop on 455 acres previously occupied by Canadian Forces Base Calgary. Since 1995, when CLC was established as a government-owned, independently operated real estate developer, the company has used new urbanist principles to varying degrees in projects spanning the nation, from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Chilliwack, British Columbia."
"CLC personnel began visiting and studying new urbanist projects, mainly in the eastern and southeastern US, in the mid-1990s. With increasing experience, the company has become more adept at applying New Urbanism's ideas. "We didn't really understand the New Urbanism movement in 1996-97," McCullough says, noting that there were fewer developments to examine a decade ago. At Currie, he says, "we want to create a more complete community," in comparison to some of CLC's earlier lower-density, largely residential developments."
Thanks to Gayle Ross
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