Edmonton city council plans to go ahead with an ambitious re-development project that is in line with the City's Municipal Development Plan (MDP) and Transportation Master Plan (TMP), which focuses on a more compact urban form, and moves development focus away from the suburbs. The lands will be a mixed-use area, providing residence for around 30,000 people, and incorporating a significant amount of commercial and retail space in close proximity to the Downtown core.
The LRT North line running from Downtown to NAIT will provide easy access to and from the Airport Lands community. The 217 hectares of land on this site will be transformed, and will generate up to $500 million from land sales.
The 'Master Plan Design Competition" allowed applicants to submit design proposals for the redevelopment. A winner for the design concept will likely be chosen by the end of this year.
In my opinion, closing the Edmonton city-center airport is an important step backwards for growing city. Look all around our continent and see how many big cities have airport in downtown. With the new airport was built and it operating very well now, There is a logical error here since the airport is not a necessary condition for all activities, It ready doesn’t make sense to have 2 airports offering the same services to the same destination. Edmonton must think to the future and look at ways to attract business, if the city-center airport is gone, we could promote and support the business community here. So please, don’t waste the land.
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