fjordgard said:
Aaron Paquette to move this motion at council on August 19. I can see this being a win-win situation all around. There is also a proposed sale-under-market-value of land in Blatchford to the Metis Nation coming up in September. With amiskwaciy academy and the Metis Nation offices already located in/adjacent to the community, a lot can work together for good in the area (for the City, the development and indigenous people in and around Edmonton).

10.2 Urban Reserve in Blatchford (A. Paquette)
Councillor A. Paquette stated that at the next regular meeting of City Council, the following motion would be moved:
That Administration invite Kehewin Cree Nation to work together to outline the next steps in establishing an Urban Reserve in Blatchford, to serve as an economic and cultural area, and provide a report to Committee in First Quarter of 2026 that includes the following:
1. a Business case prepared by Kehewin Cree Nation that outlines a detailed plan for the potential land in the Blatchford Development;
2. an analysis of policy considerations/exemptions necessary to facilitate a land transfer (Blatchford Development), including consideration for a below-market land transfer;
3. an overview of the potential impact to the Blatchford Development including impact to the vision, impact to the operations and sustainability of the Blatchford District Energy System, the area redevelopment plan, anticipated revenue, impact to the development pace, sustainable goals and others; and 4. identification of potential timelines and any further recommendations and considerations in order to advance an Urban Reserve in the Blatchford Development.
● Notice of Motion Given: July 2/4, 2025, City Council
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This passed unanimously at Council this week. Report is due back in Spring 2026. Hopefully there will be some details at that time because there is essentially nothing publicly available right now.
 
Everything which started building this spring appears to be framed. Landmark's first units of this building season have their exterior finishings, and they appear to be moving the fastest of the townhouse builders. But ~80% of the work is after the walls go up.

EcoDen has a trailer on site and fences up for its 5 floor . Occasionally they have people on site doing preliminary survey/geotechnical work. There was no excavation yet as of Thursday night.

NW extension of the road grid has actual roads with surfaces, but barricades remain up, and construction equipment remains on site and quite active.

Pilot pushed its occupancy deadline to early autumn. The first units appear to be effectively complete. Some of their exterior finishing choices are... interesting.

I admittedly have been distracted because the other half and I have successfully destroyed our back lawn and done a proper landscaping job. I have been busy collecting rocks, positioning rocks for geomorphological plausibility, and detailing the geomorphological backstory behind the position of each rock.

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This is absolutely, completely objectively true, to the point where I have mid-sentence swivelled like this because I needed to pick up a rock.

There is a lot of good stuff that has been liberated by the demolition of the remains of runways 16/34 and there's a fairly finite window in which to retrieve it. I will probably return to normal after I have all of the rocks.
 
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EcoDen has a trailer on site and fences up for its 5 floor . Occasionally they have people on site doing preliminary survey/geotechnical work. There was no excavation yet as of Thursday night.
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Hopping off this, one of the guys at the Ecoden site told me a couple of weeks ago that they wanted to get started ASAP, so it seems like they're just waiting on the city to issue a building permit. I'm keeping an eye on this page.
 
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Everything which started building this spring appears to be framed. Landmark's first units of this building season have their exterior finishings, and they appear to be moving the fastest of the townhouse builders. But ~80% of the work is after the walls go up.

EcoDen has a trailer on site and fences up for its 5 floor . Occasionally they have people on site doing preliminary survey/geotechnical work. There was no excavation yet as of Thursday night.

NW extension of the road grid has actual roads with surfaces, but barricades remain up, and construction equipment remains on site and quite active.

Pilot pushed its occupancy deadline to early autumn. The first units appear to be effectively complete. Some of their exterior finishing choices are... interesting.

I admittedly have been distracted because the other half and I have successfully destroyed our back lawn and done a proper landscaping job. I have been busy collecting rocks, positioning rocks for geomorphological plausibility, and detailing the geomorphological backstory behind the position of each rock.

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Beauty! Thanks for the update. Very exiting on ecoden project. Should dramatically change the feel of the main strip. I also hope the retail can help to draw more people to the area as visitors which should help drive future sales and rentals!
 
Some shots of the new roads from a quick drive through! Lots of space for new homes!

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The pond in Blatchford looks disgusting with all the algae in it, who wants to live in front of that? Thommyjo, I walked up that road yesterday and debated on whether I should continue and climb up the hill, I decided that it was not worth the risk of getting in trouble.
Overall, development at Blatchford this summer has been underwhelming… again!
 
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Prices need and probably will drop like they did for the condos of this builder. I see all the south end units sold though for the townhome condos - lots of windows and views of downtown skyline in those end units.
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The bungalows seemed to just really miss a mark and were a weird choice for the neighbourhood. They're much more lacklustre builds than Landmark, Encore and Crimson Cove brought to the table. They were supposed to be accessible, but the actual design still isn't great, and they've been overwhelmingly the worst at offering any kind of accessory unit options of any builder to attempt to build here. And the prices aren't really a great savings over the townhouses despite being rather less house.

This isn't saying that bungalows are bad and couldn't work,, only that Streetside seems to just be kind of flailiing around here while better builders are selling houses.
 
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Prices need and probably will drop like they did for the condos of this builder. I see all the south end units sold though for the townhome condos - lots of windows and views of downtown skyline in those end units.
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I hope those south end unit buyers understand there is going to be a 4-6 storey building built right across the walkway in the near future that will block the view they currently have...
 
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