It's been a long time coming but the first residents of the city's Blatchford residential development will move into their new homes in the next couple of months. The first four townhomes are taking shape, nearly a year after developers started pre-selling units on the lands of the former City Centre Airport in central Edmonton. Bev Esslinger's Ward 2, has been in the works for many years and it's not a huge surprise that a soft market has kept sales at bay. Blatchford is built on 536 acres that had been the former site of Edmonton's City Centre Airport, which became Canada's first licensed airstrip in 1927 and operated until 2013. Project manager Tom Lumsden gives us an update on the city centre airport redevelopment.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2020 15:32 UTC