TRENDING | EXPLORE INGLEWOOD
HISTORIC, ICONIC
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Culture, commerce, and community all come together in Calgary’s most iconic inner-city neighbourhood: Inglewood. It’s all happening here – even after nearly a century and a half since it was founded! This historic inner-city community close to downtown Calgary remains as busy, trendy and happening as it was when it was founded in 1875, and no other inner-city community in Calgary captures the glamour of yesteryear and the engaging spirit of the present than in this riverside community just to the east of downtown. It is Calgary’s oldest neighbourhood, and today it is home to an eclectic range of shops – from quirky vintage furniture stores and indie fashion boutiques to a diverse selection of restaurants and diners, coffee shops and entertainment venues. Its resiliency was again on display, as its commercial hub continues to thrive even after the two years of pandemic lockdowns. “We only saw one store close throughout that, and it wasn’t even really because of
slow sales,” says Rebecca O’Brian, Executive Director of the Inglewood Business Improvement Area (BIA). Inglewood has been a lively residential and commercial hub in Calgary since 1875. Today, it continues to be a vibrant, historic, pedestrianoriented neighbourhood with about 400 residential, institutional and commercial buildings constructed before 1914. Inglewood was designated by the Canadian Institute of Planners as Canada’s Greatest Community in 2014.
But there are other residential developments afoot, O’Brien says. “The new Brewery-Rail Lands development by MATCO is now under review at the City,” she tells Calgary New Home + Condo Guide. Although it’s still a long way off before the first shovel hits the ground, it gives confidence in the continued growth of Inglewood.
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Inglewood offers a broad range of residential options as well, and they can range from the million-dollar single-family properties by the banks of the Bow River to the affordable multi-family developments that continue to spring up in the neighbourhood. StreetSide Developments’ Konekt Inglewood is the latest to join the ranks, but it has been so successful that it is all but sold out.
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