Neighbourhoods / New and Notable / Blatchford

Blatchford is being built on the former City Centre Airport site just north of downtown Edmonton, and it is on track to become the largest carbon neutral community in Canada once complete.

Every home in Blatchford is held to a strict green building code, and several builders are going further, offering fully net zero units equipped with rooftop solar, air source heat pumps, triple paned windows, and in some cases battery storage that lets homeowners bank solar energy for later use. The community runs on a district energy system, drawing heat from a geo-exchange field beneath the neighbourhood rather than individual furnaces, and the goal is a place where homeowners see dramatically lower utility costs from day one. Housing so far has centred on architecturally designed townhomes with private backyards and back lane garage access, with more housing types planned as later phases open.

Blatchford is designed around people first, not cars. Streets like York Mews are pedestrian only, and the community plan calls for extensive bike lanes, walking paths, and a future LRT connection linking Blatchford directly to NAIT and downtown. At the centre of it all sits the planned 81 acre Blatchford Park, which will include a lake and serve as the community's shared green space once fully developed. For buyers, the appeal is straightforward, an urban location minutes from downtown paired with a home built to a genuinely different environmental standard.

The buyers who choose Blatchford tend to want to be close to the core, care about sustainability in a concrete and measurable way, and feel comfortable being part of a community that's still actively taking shape phase by phase.

Because construction here differs so much from a typical build, from the district energy hookup to the green building code requirements, working with an agent who understands the process matters. We can walk you through what makes a Blatchford purchase different, so reach out at 780 905 6255 or thereteam.ca.