Construction & Renovation Services
Across Greater Calgary
Professional home renovation and construction services from Calgary's core to the surrounding regions. Local expertise, verified contractors, and quality craftsmanship in every community we serve.
NW Calgary
Established communities like Tuscany, Arbour Lake, and Varsity with a mix of mature homes and newer developments. Popular for family living with proximity to Nose Hill Park and the Rockies.
Northwest Communities
Calgary's northwest quadrant sprawls from the university district at Brentwood and Charleswood through the 1960s-70s bungalow belts of Dalhousie, Silver Springs, and Ranchlands, past the shopping power of Crowfoot Crossing, and into the newer hillside communities of Edgemont and Hamptons that push toward the city limits at Stoney Trail. Nose Hill Park — 11 square kilometres of native grassland, Canada's fourth-largest urban park — sits at the geographic and psychological centre of NW Calgary, shaping development patterns around its edges and providing the open-sky views that drew families here for decades. The Red Line CTrain runs the length of the quadrant, with stations at Brentwood, Dalhousie, Crowfoot, and Tuscany giving NW residents light-rail access that most suburban Calgarians lack. For the construction industry, the northwest's defining feature is timing: the oldest communities are now 55-65 years old, their original homes cycling into the renovation-or-replace decision that drives steady work across the quadrant.
Varsity & University District
Varsity is really three neighbourhoods designed under three different planning philosophies, and that unusual history shapes every construction project here. Varsity Acres, the oldest section from the early 1960s, follows a conventional postwar grid of bungalows and split-levels built for University of Calgary faculty and staff. Varsity Village, developed in the late 1960s by Carma Developers, is one of only two Canadian implementations of the American Radburn Plan — a deliberate inversion of normal suburban design where houses face inward toward shared pedestrian greenways rather than outward toward the street, and rear lanes were eliminated entirely. Varsity Estates, the premium western section, offers larger lots with views toward the Rockies from the plateau above the Bow River valley. And now a fourth layer is growing at the eastern edge: the University District, a 200-acre master-planned community on former University of Calgary lands that holds Alberta's first LEED ND Platinum designation. Together these create a renovation market that ranges from $60,000 bungalow kitchen updates to $1.5 million custom infill builds.
Tuscany & Rocky Ridge
A thousand acres of plateau at the northwestern edge of Calgary, named whimsically after an Italian region that looks nothing like the Alberta prairie — but the Rocky Mountain panorama from Tuscany's western lots is spectacular enough to justify some creative branding. Development began in 1994 and continued steadily until the community was essentially built out by 2022, making Tuscany one of Calgary's last large-scale master-planned communities to reach completion. Rocky Ridge, its neighbour to the east across Stoney Trail, developed in parallel from 1989 with a similar family-oriented suburban character but distinct homeowner associations and a slightly different housing mix. The Tuscany CTrain station, opened in 2014 as the northwest terminus of the Red Line, transformed both communities from car-dependent suburbs into transit-connected ones — the 550-space park-and-ride facility exceeded its projected 9,000 daily riders within weeks of opening, hitting 11,000. For the construction industry, these are communities entering their first significant renovation cycle: homes built between 1994 and 2010 are now 15-30 years old, their original kitchens dated, their roofs approaching replacement age, and their basements still unfinished.
Panorama Hills & Coventry Hills
Calgary's most populated community sits on the site of a historic sandstone quarry that supplied the stone for Old City Hall. With over 25,000 residents and homes now entering their first major renovation cycle, Panorama Hills and neighbouring Coventry Hills represent the largest concentrated renovation market in northwest Calgary.
NE Calgary
Fast-growing quadrant including Cityscape, Skyview Ranch, and established communities like Marlborough. Diverse housing stock from 1960s bungalows to brand-new developments.
Northeast Communities
Calgary's northeast quadrant is the city's most culturally diverse district and its most misunderstood construction market. From the 1970s bungalows of Pineridge and Temple to the recent subdivisions of Cityscape and Cornerstone, the NE holds Calgary's widest range of housing ages, styles, and renovation needs — all at price points that make it the most accessible homeownership market in the city.
Martindale & Taradale
With nearly 54,000 residents across three interconnected communities, the Martindale-Taradale-Saddle Ridge cluster is a small city within Calgary. Built primarily between 1998 and 2012, these communities are now entering their first renovation cycle — and the volume of homes reaching the 15-25 year update threshold simultaneously creates a renovation market of unusual scale and predictability.
Saddle Ridge & Skyview Ranch
Named one of Calgary's best neighbourhoods in 2025 by Avenue Magazine, Saddle Ridge has grown from ranching acreages to a community of 24,000 residents in just two decades. With 62% of residents born outside Canada, this is where Calgary's newest citizens are building their homes — and where the construction industry meets one of the most diverse client bases in the country.
SW Calgary
Premium neighbourhoods including Mount Royal, Britannia, and Altadore. Heritage homes, luxury infills, and some of Calgary's highest property values. Active renovation market.
Southwest Communities
Calgary's southwest quadrant was the first to get LRT service and the last to lose its reputation as the city's most desirable address. From the 1958-vintage bungalows of Haysboro to the lakeside estates of Lakeview, the SW offers the widest range of renovation opportunities in Calgary — mid-century gut renovations, suburban updates, Fish Creek Park-adjacent outdoor living, and an accelerating infill movement that is replacing 1960s originals with contemporary two-storeys.
Signal Hill & West Springs
Perched on the rolling hills west of Sarcee Trail, Signal Hill was built to showcase Rocky Mountain views — and 40 years later, those views still anchor the highest property values in Calgary's western suburbs. With single-family homes averaging nearly $1 million and the community's 1986-era housing stock now firmly in its renovation window, Signal Hill and neighbouring West Springs represent one of Calgary's most active mid-to-upper renovation markets.
Aspen Woods & Discovery Ridge
Calgary's western luxury corridor. Aspen Woods and Discovery Ridge were developed in the early 2000s as executive-class communities on the city's western edge, where former ranchland gives way to escarpment views, Griffith Woods parkland, and proximity to the Rocky Mountain foothills. With an average home price exceeding $1.3 million and estate properties reaching $3 million+, these communities anchor Calgary's premium renovation market.
SE Calgary
Rapidly expanding area with communities like Mahogany, Cranston, and Auburn Bay built around constructed lakes. Mix of newer builds and established neighbourhoods like Willow Park.
Southeast Communities
Calgary's southeast quadrant traces a 60-year arc from the CPR repair shops of Ogden to the engineered lakefront communities of Mahogany and Auburn Bay. The SE holds Calgary's most diverse construction timeline — pre-war industrial housing, Calgary's first lake community at Bonavista, the Bow River corridor communities, Quarry Park's mixed-use transformation, and the deep south's rapid suburban expansion — creating renovation opportunities at every price point and every era of construction.
McKenzie Towne & McKenzie Lake
Designed by the architect of Seaside, Florida — the town from The Truman Show — McKenzie Towne was Calgary's bold experiment in new urbanism: front porches instead of garage faces, a walkable High Street instead of a strip mall, and architectural styles borrowed from Victorian, Craftsman, and European traditions. Recognized by the Urban Land Institute as one of the top 26 master-planned communities in the world, McKenzie Towne is now 25+ years old and entering its renovation era.
Cranston & Auburn Bay
Cranston wraps along the Bow River and Fish Creek Provincial Park in a way that no other Calgary suburb manages — kilometres of pathside and riverfront lots that bring the natural landscape directly to the doorstep. Auburn Bay adds a 43-acre engineered lake with beach-club amenities. Together, these two SE communities represent the latest evolution of Calgary's outdoor-lifestyle suburb, with over 28,000 residents and a housing stock that's just old enough to start its first renovation cycle.
Core Calgary
Downtown, Beltline, Bridgeland, Inglewood, and Kensington. Condo renovations, heritage home restorations, and urban infill projects define the core renovation market.
Downtown Calgary
Calgary's urban core is a construction story in itself — office-to-residential conversions, heritage warehouse renovations, and high-rise condo upgrades define the downtown renovation landscape.
Beltline
Named for the 1912 streetcar loop that once circled 17th Avenue, the Beltline has spent the past two decades becoming Calgary's densest residential neighbourhood — a vertical community of 25,000-plus residents stacked into towers, mid-rises, and converted warehouse lofts between the downtown core and the Elbow River.
Kensington & Hillhurst
Felix McHugh homesteaded here in 1883, and some of the houses his neighbours built before World War I are still standing — sandwiched now between modern infills, condo mid-rises, and the cafés and boutiques that make Kensington Village one of Calgary's most walkable commercial strips.
Inglewood & Ramsay
Calgary began here. Across the Elbow River from where the North-West Mounted Police built Fort Calgary in 1875, Inglewood grew into the city's first commercial district — and 150 years later, its sandstone storefronts along 9th Avenue SE still anchor a neighbourhood that has reinvented itself as Calgary's arts, craft brewing, and heritage district.
Bridgeland & Renfrew
When the Calgary General Hospital imploded in a world-record cloud of dust on October 4, 1998, it cleared more than a city block — it cleared the way for Bridgeland's transformation from a quiet immigrant neighbourhood into one of Calgary's most desirable inner-city communities, where wartime bungalows share streets with architect-designed infills and boutique condo buildings.
Mission & Cliff Bungalow
Father Albert Lacombe secured the quarter sections in 1883 and named them the Mission district — a French Catholic outpost that briefly existed as the independent Village of Rouleauville before Calgary absorbed it in 1907. That ecclesiastical origin still shapes construction work here: St. Mary's Cathedral, the original 1889 sandstone church elevated to cathedral status in 1912, anchors a cluster of heritage-designated buildings that restrict what can happen around them. Mission and its western neighbour Cliff Bungalow together form one of Calgary's most walkable, condo-dense inner-city districts, bounded by 17th Avenue to the north, the Elbow River to the south and east, and the escarpment rising toward Mount Royal. The 2013 flood rewrote the construction playbook for every property near the Elbow — new flood maps, mandatory setbacks, and foundation requirements that didn't exist before the water arrived.
Marda Loop & Altadore
When the No. 7 streetcar made its last run in 1948, the turnaround at 34th Avenue and 20th Street SW had already given the commercial district its name — Marda, from the old Marda Theatre, plus Loop, from the streetcar's turning circle. Today that same intersection anchors one of Calgary's most sought-after inner-city shopping streets, and the residential neighbourhoods around it — Altadore, South Calgary, and the Garrison Woods redevelopment on the former Currie Barracks military base — collectively form the city's most active infill construction zone. Land costs regularly exceed $1 million for a standard 50-foot lot, and the steady demolition of 1950s bungalows has remade entire blocks with contemporary two-storey infills over the past two decades.
Mount Royal & Elbow Park
The wealthy Americans who climbed the hill south of the CPR tracks in 1904 to claim the best view lots in the young city probably didn't know they were establishing what would become Calgary's most enduring address of prestige. Initially called American Hill — a name that lasted until Canadian residents objected — the neighbourhood was renamed Mount Royal and laid out by the Frederick Law Olmsted firm in curving streets that followed the natural contours of the escarpment. Over a century later, Upper Mount Royal's sandstone and brick mansions on sweeping estate lots coexist with Lower Mount Royal's dense condo corridor along 17th Avenue, while neighbouring Elbow Park offers riverside luxury on the banks of the Elbow River. These neighbourhoods present the most complex renovation environment in Calgary: heritage designations that govern exterior changes, restrictive covenants from 1911 that still bind properties, and construction budgets that routinely reach seven figures.
Home Renovation & Construction Services Across Greater Calgary
Calgary Construction Network connects homeowners across Greater Calgary with professional construction and renovation services. Whether you own a wartime bungalow in Mount Royal, a modern infill in Altadore, or a new build in Airdrie, our network of experienced contractors delivers quality craftsmanship tailored to your neighbourhood's unique building characteristics.
Every area in Greater Calgary presents distinct construction considerations. Inner-city Calgary neighbourhoods often involve heritage home renovations, older wiring upgrades, and foundation work on aging concrete. Newer suburban communities in the SE or surrounding cities may require different approaches, from addressing builder-grade finishes in newer homes to managing Calgary's unique soil and drainage conditions including expansive clay soils.
Our area guides provide genuinely useful, locally-researched information about housing stock, foundation types, common renovation challenges, permit requirements, and property values specific to each community. This helps you make informed decisions about your renovation project before you even pick up the phone.
What Makes Our Area Guides Different
- Verified local data — Housing stock information, development eras, and construction characteristics cross-referenced against City of Calgary and surrounding municipal records
- Real permit guidance — Requirements specific to your municipality, whether that's the City of Calgary, Airdrie, Cochrane, or any other Greater Calgary jurisdiction
- Construction-specific insights — Foundation types, soil conditions, common issues, and renovation considerations unique to each neighbourhood
- Current property context — Market values and renovation ROI data to help you make sound investment decisions
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