A city council committee got a first look Monday at a draft design to redevelop the 100-acre site at Foothills Athletic Park and the McMahon Stadium lands.

The long-range development calls for a massive overhaul of the area with a new long-awaited indoor field house, outdoor fields, renovations to the aging McMahon Stadium, a “four-season plaza,” tailgating alleys, hotels and mixed-use residential buildings.

The redesigned sports district, still in its preliminary stages, would cluster multiple facilities or assets owned or operated by the City, the University of Calgary and the McMahon Stadium Society. The new field house would be built on the current site of the Foothills Stadium.

In 2019, council dedicated $19 million in “startup funding” from developer-funded levies to proceed with design and planning work associated with a new field house at Foothills Athletic Park. While the city’s project “roadmap” suggests construction on a field house could begin as early as 2022 and be completed by 2024, city officials acknowledged that build-out of the area could take between 10 and 20 years.

There isn’t currently a cost estimate associated with the project as a whole.

Coun. George Chahal chairs the Foothills Athletic Park Redevelopment Advisory Committee. He said the next step is working on a business case for the redevelopment, and further advocacy to the provincial and federal governments about helping to build the field house.

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