Legacy Corner to bring shopping, services to area
Calgary’s reigning community of the year is adding to the list of reasons it continues to be a draw for people looking to buy a new home.
Legacy by WestCreek Developments has had a busy year with additions such as a community garden, new show homes in various segments, and access to transit with several new bus stops throughout the community.
Now it’s bringing in shops and services with shovels turned for the community’s first commercial complex.
Construction is underway on Legacy Corner by Roy- Op Development Corp. and it’s expected to be open in summer 2018.
“When buying a home, everyone looks at what’s around them,” says Kalida Goldade, marketing manager for WestCreek. “In Legacy, you can live, work and play all within the same community.”
She says, with this addition, “it provides the opportunity for people to work right in the community.”
“With Legacy Corner being the first commercial site, it really does create that connectivity and why we designed Legacy with 15 kilo- metres of walking paths,” she adds.
“You can walk right through that green space to get your coffee in the morning.”
The 15,000-square-foot complex is at the corner of Legacy Village Link and 210th Avenue S.E.
Confirmed tenants include a Petro Canada gas station and car wash, dental care, Little Caesars Pizza, Tim Hortons, barbershop, veterinary clinic, and a dry cleaner.
At press time, there was space for two more tenants to be added to the site.
The first commercial site of any kind to join the community is Legacy Montessori Academy, which is presently open on the ground level of the Legacy Gate multi-family development.
For commercial complexes in Legacy, two others are down the pike. One will be developed by Trico and there’s another by RoyOp., substantially larger than its first.
Trico’s Legacy Village development will be a 58,000-square-foot local shopping centre. Tenants have not been confirmed, but it’s expected to join the Legacy landscape within the next two years, says Goldade.
The larger Roy- Op development is considered a regional commercial site that will attract customers beyond the residents of Legacy and the neighbouring community of Walden. It measures about two-thirds the size of Shawnessy Towne Centre at 800,000 square feet.
“It will serve many surrounding communities,” says Goldade. This includes sources for shopping, dining and entertainment with both small and large retail tenants and a walkable high street.
“It will be an area for multiple communities to enjoy, but luckily for Legacy (residents) it will be just walking distance,” she adds.
Earlier in 2017, Legacy was named back-to-back winner of Community of the Year-Calgary Region.
It offers house hunters estate, move-up and laned single-family homes, duplexes townhomes and condos.
The builder group includes Albi Luxury by Brookfield Residential, WestCreek Homes, Trico Homes, Sterling Homes, Stepper Homes, Shane Homes, Morrison Homes, Jayman Built, Calbridge Homes, Carlisle Group, Brad Remington Homes, and Aldebaran Homes.