Fairview Park Old Arena Site Update Wonder what’s going on at Fairview Park? Last fall, we started a Fairview Park committee. Our mandate was to analyze the city engagement information and discuss the possibilities of the area. The committee meets once a month and shares ideas. In October, we were approached by University of Calgary […]
Fairview Park Committee
August 26, 2020 by
The Fairview Community Association has created a committee to explore potential options for the future of the former arena site. We have briefly reviewed the City of Calgary’s engagement results, and will now begin breaking down responses and looking at possibilities for the site’s future. We are seeking additional Fairviewers to join the committee! Potential […]
Flint Park Revitalization Update
November 13, 2019 by
Were you in and around Flint Park during the months of September or October? If so you probably saw the guys from Bike-Track working hard on the pump track. Between snowstorms, windstorms, and freezing cold mornings, they started to bring the track to life. It took countless truck-loads of road crush and clay to get […]
Fairview Arena Site Update
October 3, 2019 by
October 2019 A lot has gone on since the Fairview Arena roof collapsed on February 20 of 2018 – and there’s more work to come. After the roof collapse, assessments took place to see what could be saved. It was determined that the hall portion was structurally sound and could be saved, but that the […]
Flint Park Revitalization Update October 2019
October 3, 2019 by
October 2019 At the time of writing (early September), construction was just beginning on the bicycle pump track portion of the Flint Park Revitalization. City crews are stripping and grading the site prior to our contractor “Bike-Track LTD” starting to shape the berms and rollers and then finishing them with asphalt. Construction should be wrapping […]
Flint Park Pump Track Update
September 10, 2019 by
September 2019 As you may have noticed, there is now an orange fence around the Flint Park build site, but no work has been done yet. The reason for that is the start of construction on the pump track has been delayed until September 9th. This is about 3 weeks later than we had hoped […]
City of Calgary provides 8038 Fairmount Drive Site – Community Update
September 6, 2019 by
The City of Calgary has provided an update regarding the 8038 Fairmount Drive site. September 2019 On February 20, 2018 the Fairview Arena roof collapsed. The document provides an overview of what has been taking place since and what is planned next for the site. Click here to view the entire pdf document.
Masterplan for the Flint Park Revitalization
May 5, 2019 by
At last, here is the completed Masterplan for the Flint Park Revitalization: Members of the Fairview Community Association board, as well as a committee of residents have been hard at work this Winter and Spring to come up with an awesome idea of how to transform the under-utilized area at the Southwest end of Flint […]
Arena Site Update
April 5, 2019 by
June 2019 SAWHA / FWHAS The Southern Alberta Women’s Hockey Association and the Fairview Women’s Hockey Arena Society continue to work with the City of Calgary on final stages of site remediation and next steps. Back filling, compaction testing, and hydro seeding of the lands directly east of the community building commenced mid-May. We would […]