Edmonton Exhibition Lands

Ground-Oriented Residential

The Ground-Oriented Residential Area surrounds both of the Mixed Use Transit Village Nodes. These area will provide a diverse mix of residential uses, including mid to low rise apartments, row houses, stacked row houses, and some compact semi-detached, duplex, and single detached housing.

Civic/Education Anchor

This space provides opportunity for the expansion of education, cultural, wellness and/or other institutional uses, integrated with civic amenities. The anchor will provide publicly accessible recreational and community space for people living in the transit villages and surrounding neighbourhoods. Uses will complement the activities in Borden Park. The space may also incorporate indoor and outdoor Indigenous placemaking in collaboration with partners

Commercial / Employment

The employment anchor provides opportunity for the development of a large employment campus or development. This could include offices, testing/training facilities, or other employment uses. The site may be developed by one employer as a campus, or by multiple employers. The employment anchor will increase the livability of the transit villages and surrounding neighbourhoods by providing jobs within walking distance to residential areas and helping to diversify Edmonton’s economy.

Vertical Mixed Use

The Mixed Use Transit Village Nodes focus medium density mixed use development into compact areas immediately adjacent to the new proposed LRT Stations. Active commercial uses will be concentrated around the Transit Village Urban Plazas. These uses, such as retail, restaurants, or services, will contribute to the activation of public space. Single purpose commercial buildings, including offices, may also be permitted in these spaces. These areas will benefit from integrated connectivity to bus transit services, which will be incorporated into the design of streets and public spaces in the area.

Horizontal Mixed Use

This industrial transition area provides a flexible area in the north of the Exhibition Lands for a mix of light industrial, commercial, and residential uses. The area provides a buffer between predominantly residential districts and industrial uses. This area will allow light industrial, commercial, and residential uses, including live-work units, apartments, breweries, light manufacturing, and studios.

Open Space

Green space, or open space, in the Exhibition Lands is envisioned as a network. Vibrant plazas will serve as LRT landing spaces and welcoming entrances to the community. Public streets will connect these spaces to a dynamic central plaza in the middle of each of the transit villages. Greenway links, a form of linear park, will weave through ground-oriented residential neighbourhoods to connect to a reconfigured and expanded Borden Park. Along these links will be a series of community amenity nodes, which will provide social spaces for play, gathering, and urban agriculture like fruit trees and community gardens.

Expo Centre

The Edmonton EXPO Centre is at the heart of the Exhibition Lands development concept and is envisioned to diversify its uses in a manner that contributes to the vibrancy of the community. Areas to the east of the existing events centre will allow for development of amenities that complement EXPO Centre functions, such as offices, commercial or hotel uses.

Light Industrial / LRT Facility

This area has been identified as a potential new LRT storage and maintenance facility in the future. As the City's LRT network expands decisions will be made as to the appropriateness of the location of such a facility at the Exhibition Lands.