About the Office of Land Servicing & Housing

The Office of Land Servicing & Housing (OLSH) delivers progressive land servicing and affordable housing programs that help create a great and sustainable City.

 

Learn more about our Lines of Business:

 

The Business Parks program delivers fully serviced 'construction ready' land. The program is for intensive office-related employment and for light industrial uses in suburban areas achieving municipal planning objectives.

 

 

Business park projects:

   Royal Vista Business Park

   Aurora Business Park

   Westmount (Atco)

   McLeod Trail South (Silverado)

 

 

The Industrial program delivers a one-year supply of fully serviced 'construction ready' industrial land. The program also provides a three-year supply of planned industrial land to support economic development and diversification in Calgary.

 

For over forty years, The City of Calgary has developed and sold industrial parks to the private market representing over 4000 acres of improved land. The City continues to provide fully planned and serviced industrial land that ensures availability of land for employment during all economic periods.

Industrial projects:

    Eastlake Industrial Park

    Great Plains IV Industrial Park

    Shepard Industrial Park

    Forest Lawn Creek

 

Transit Oriented Development​ (TOD) is a walkable​, mixed-use, high density form of development typically focused within a 600m radius of a Transit Station. This form of development utilizes existing infrastructure, optimizes use of the transit network and creates mobility options for transit riders and the local community.

Successful TOD projects provide a mix of land uses and densities that create a convenient and vibrant community for local residents, transit users and visitors.

The Office of Land Servicing & Housing is currently creating a market-driven program for the development of City-owned lands in and around key LRT stations. The program will incorporate TOD-relevant City policies and guidelines and will help create a great and sustainable City by enhancing transit operations, encouraging reduced automobile use while promoting employment opportunities, providing community-related uses and a wider choice in housing options.

 
TOD projects:

    Westbrook Station​

    The Bridges​​

    Anderson Station 

The Mixed Use program delivers the strategic improvement and disposition of surplus city-owned land to meet municipal objectives and to achieve optimum public value from City owned land.

 
Mixed use projects:

    Louise Station

    Block 40

 

Affordable Housing in OLSH is divided into two groups:

 

       The Affordable housing division 
       has two key roles:

Calgary Housing Company (CHC) is a City of Calgary owned corporation working with OLSH to provide safe and affordable housing solutions to the citizens of Calgary. CHC operates and manages over 10,000 subsidized and affordable housing units with a variety of housing options for low-income households including duplexes, townhouses, high-rise apartments

 

The Real estate sales program manages all land that is declared surplus. Whether it is general land or a specific industrial, commercial and residential property, the program's objective is to maximize the financial and community value from the sale of surplus property.