West Village, located in
Calgary
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,
Alberta
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,
Canada
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, south of the
Bow River
The headwaters of the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, start at the Bow Glacier and Bow Lake (Alberta), Bow Lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Rocky Mountains. The glacial stream that feeds Bow Lake (Alberta), Bow Lake ...
, west of 14 Street, and north of the West
LRT line, is an
inner-city
The term inner city (also called the hood) has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer to rundown neighborhoods, in a downtown or city centre area. Soc ...
area which was previously targeted by
Calgary Sports and Entertainment (CSE) for major
redevelopment
Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses. It represents a process of land development uses to revitalize the physical, economic and social fabric of urban space.
Description
Variations on redevelopment include ...
. The plans included the building of
CalgaryNEXT, a proposed $890 million
sports complex
A sports complex is a group of sports facilities. For example, there are track and field stadiums, football stadiums, baseball stadiums, swimming pools, Olympic Parks, and indoor arenas.
Asia
* Azadi Sport Complex
* Cebu City Sports Com ...
.
References
Neighbourhoods in Calgary
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