Location: City of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada

• Development of Economic Development Brochures
• Development and Coordination of Economic Development Summit
• Land Use and Definition review & recommendations
• MDP change recommendations
• Networking
• Land Use Planning
• Community Master Plan and LUB
• Bulk Form Design
• Forecast projections of annexed lands

Project Details:

Bell Group was a member of a consulting team retained by the City of Airdrie to aid the City through the process of economic and urban expansion. Due to the nature of the City’s goal, Bell Group’s role in the project was varied.

Bell Group reviewed current ASP, LUBs and definitions as they relate to commercial, retail, mixed use, and high-density residential. Bell Group worked in partnership with the planning and economic departments create a new phased area structure plan for the annexed lands, and provided recommendations to the City of Airdrie for the creation and implementation of new LUBs and definitions specific to future development.

In an attempt to gather all qualified investors within the community and allow the individual investors to connect to the City, to each other, and to the current council; Bell Group and the team designed and co-hosted an Economic Business Development Summit. The Summit was extremely successful in attracting investment from a targeted group into the community.

Bell Group has been recognized in the area as one of the first companies to introduce and execute the idea of hosting annual Economic Business Development Summits to attract investment.