The average price of a single family home in the city of Calgary in May 2010 was $483,240

Single family listings in the city of Calgary added
for the month of May totaled 2,966, a decrease of 4
per cent from April 2010 when 3,082 new listings
were added, but showing an increase of 33 per cent
from May 2009, when 2,235 new listings came to
the market.



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West Springs can be found west of Broadcast Hill, along Old Banff Coach Road.  Its boundaries are Old Banff Coach Road to the north, the neighbourhood of Springbank to the west, Bow Trail to the south and 69 St. W to the east.  

Springbank used to be part of the East Springbank area of Municipal District of Rocky View until it was annexed by the city in 1995, but it wasn't until 2001 that the neighbourhood was actually established.

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West Springs has many recreation opportunities. 

• There are several parks in the area, including Sierra Morena Park, which contains basketball and volleyball courts. 
  
• The park is slated for further development to include more sports facilities, a school and community centre.
  
• Allred's Driving Range is just behind it. 
  
• Paskapoo Slopes is a historically significant area that has yielded up artifacts and remains. 
  
• The Olympic Hall of Fame is also in this area, with a mountain bike park, bobsled and luge track and ski jump provide summer and winter recreation.

Shopping and dining is provided by the nearby Strathcona Town Square.  Westgate Mall is east, along Bow Trail.  West Hills, with a 10-screen multiplex cinema is south on Sarcee Trail and Richmond Road.  There are a number of slated commercial developments in and near West Springs, including a Co-op, and several live/work developments.

The real estate of West Springs consists mainly of upscale single family detached homes on lots ranging up to 4 acres or more.  There are a few townhome and low-rise condominium complexes as well.  West Springs contains several small developments, including West Springs Farms in the north part of the community, Springside to the west and Wentworth.

 

If you're entertaining visitors in Calgary and leave them to their own devices one day, it is not unlikely that you will come home to a complaint about all the weird street numbersand what idiot arranged Calgary into quadrants that are numbered individually so that they can't find anything? 

As you commiserate with your friends about the insane numbering system, you may wonder why Calgary is laid out like this.

It wasn't always this way. Until 1904, Calgary had names...(continue article)