McKenzie Towne is a master planned residential neighbourhood in the southeast of
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,
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being developed by Carma Developers LP. The community is bordered on the west by
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, on the south by Marquis of Lorne Trail Highway 22X, on the east by 52 St. S.E., and to the north by the South Trail regional commercial centre along 130 Ave. S.E.
Mckenzie Towne boasts many recreational features, including: the McKenzie Town Hall containing the staff of the McKenzie Towne Council (which is the area homeowners association), a gymnasium, meeting and banquet facilities, and a private outdoor park area; a network of paved pathways and green spaces; a fountain and splash park; and numerous ponds also compliment McKenzie Towne.
McKenzie Towne is a master planned residential neighbourhood in the southeast of
CalgaryCalgary is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada.The Calgary census metropolitan area is the third most diverse in Canada in terms of visible minorities after Toronto and Vancouver when considering only CMAs with population greater than 200,000...
,
AlbertaAlberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south....
being developed by Carma Developers LP. The community is bordered on the west by
Deerfoot TrailDeerfoot Trail is a freeway section of Highway 2 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was formerly known as Blackfoot Trail Freeway.There have been 10,000 collisions on Deerfoot Trail in the past five years, including 24 fatalities, according to the city of Calgary.Deerfoot stretches nearly 50...
, on the south by Marquis of Lorne Trail Highway 22X, on the east by 52 St. S.E., and to the north by the South Trail regional commercial centre along 130 Ave. S.E.
Mckenzie Towne boasts many recreational features, including: the McKenzie Town Hall containing the staff of the McKenzie Towne Council (which is the area homeowners association), a gymnasium, meeting and banquet facilities, and a private outdoor park area; a network of paved pathways and green spaces; a fountain and splash park; and numerous ponds also compliment McKenzie Towne. McKenzie Towne also contains one Separate School Board elementary school and a public elementary school is under construction and will be open for enrollment in 2010.
Developments
McKenzie Towne is designed as a Neotraditional Community to reflect a small town, complete with both street front retail, mid size commercial offerings, a variety of single family homes, apartments, town houses, churches, seniors care facilities, public and separate board elementary schools, and traditional
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. The neighbourhood was based on the
new urbanistNew Urbanism is an urban design movement, which promotes walkable neighborhoods that contain a range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s and continues to reform many aspects of real estate development and urban planning....
movement and original concepts were crafted by Andreas Duany who was the same architect to model
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(the filming location of
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movie).
The neighbourhood is divided into four distinct areas:
Inverness,
Elgin,
Prestwick, and
High Street. Each of the three areas of Mckenzie towne offer complimenting architectural styles. Elgin features six styles of architecture designed to reflect
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. English Cottage, Greek Revival, English Tudor, French Eclectic, Italianate, and English
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. Prestwick and Inverness follows four styles: Queen Anne (Victorian),
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,
CraftsmanThe American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century...
, and National. High Street is the commercial area, designed by Gibbs Gage Architects. It features street oriented commercial with many small businesses and complemented with larger well known retail tenants and a major grocery store.
Education
In 2006, the
Calgary Catholic School DistrictThe Calgary Catholic School District is the Roman Catholic separate school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It also serves the neighboring communities of Airdrie, Chestermere, and Cochrane...
opened
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Elementary/Junior High school in the community.
Demographics
In 2006 the neighbourhood had a population of 10,092. Residents in this community had a
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of
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75,325 in 2000, and there were 4.6% low income residents living in the neighborhood. As of 2000, 11.9% of the residents were immigrants. A proportion of 8.9% of the buildings were
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s or
apartmentAn apartment, or flat, is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, especially if it consists of many apartments for rent...
s, and 4% of the housing was used for
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