Centre sector · Established 1905
Beltline
A 2.9 km² centre city community in Calgary’s Centre sector, served by one CTrain station and a business improvement area.
About
7% of the ground is under tree canopy and 3% is parkland, both below the Calgary community median.
Getting around
One CTrain station (Victoria Park/Stampede Station) and 58 bus stops sit inside the boundary.
Schools
- Alberta Ballet SchoolJunior High/Senior High
- Connaught School · PublicElementary
- Discovering Choices · PublicSenior High
- Lady Fatima AcademyElementary/Junior High
Parks, paths and trees
0.7 km of pathways and trails, 13 km of bike routes and one off-leash area. The city counts 3,146 public trees here.
When it was built
- 1890s
- Senator Lougheed Residence · Queen Anne Revival1891
- Haultain School · Romanesque Revival1894
- McHugh House · Queen Anne Revival1896
- Rundle Ruins/General Hospital #2 · Romanesque Revival1899
- 1900s
Established 1905
- Residence/Boarding House (Demolished - 2004)1902
- Albert C Talbot Residence · Queen Anne Revival1905
- Davis Residence · Queen Anne Revival1905
- Woodhall Residence · Queen Anne Revival1905
- Calgary Gas Co. Workshop · Commercial1907
+36 more
- 1910s
- Knoepfi (Hicks) Residence · Edwardian Gable Front1910
- 12 Avenue Elbow River Bridge1911
- First Baptist Church Manse · Tudor Revival1911
- G.F. Stephens & Company Paint Warehouse · Commercial1912
- Healy Apartments · Classic Revival1912
+59 more
- 1920s
- AGT Warehouse · Commercial1921
- Ford Motor Company of Canada Warehouse · Edwardian Classical1922
- Radio Block · Commercial1923
- St. Stephen's Memorial Hall · Arts and Crafts1923
- Jenkins' Groceteria No. 12 · Edwardian Commercial1926
+11 more
- 1930s
- General Motors Building · Commercial1931
- Model Milk Building · Commercial1933
- Jacques Funeral Home · Spanish Colonial Revival1937
- 1940s
- Central High School Addition (Demolished - 2008) · Art Deco1940
- Colonel Belcher Hospital (Demolished - 2005) · International1942
- 1950s
- Plunkett & Savage Warehouse (Demolished - 2015)1950
- Stampede Corral · Modern1950
- St. Stephen's Anglican Church · Romanesque Revival1952
- Riviera Apartments · Modern1954
- Big Four Building · Modern1959
+1 more
- 1960s
- Franklin House Apartments · Brutalist1964
- 1980s
- Olympic Saddledome · Expressionist1981
138 resources on the City of Calgary inventory, by construction decade.
Public art
- Bird of Spring · Abraham Etungat, R.C.AConnaught Park, 14th Avenue S.W. and 11th Street S.W.
- Boer War Memorial · Louis-Philippe HebertCentral Memorial Park (12th Avenue S.W. at Third Street S.W.)
- Chinook Arc · Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock with Creative Machines (Technical Consultant)Barb Scott Park (12th Avenue S.W. and Ninth Street S.W.)
- José María Morelos y Pavon · Armando Casteñeda LopezTomkins Park (17th Avenue S.W. and Eighth Street S.W.)
- World War One Memorial · Couer-de-Lion MacCarthyCentral Memorial Park (12th Avenue S.W. at Third Street S.W.)
Community association
Beltline Neighbourhoods Association · Victoria Park BIA
Compared with Calgary
- 6.5%Tree canopyBelow city median 14.6%
- 2.5%ParklandBelow city median 11.9%
- 0.4%Natural areaBelow city median 2%
- 0.7 kmPathways and trailsBelow city median 4.1 km
- 13 kmBike routesAbove city median 1.7 km
Permits and housing
Building permits
240 building permits, 65 development permits and 8 land-use redesignations in the last twelve months, with a declared building value of $147.1M.
Housing stock
The city lists 350 licensed short-term rentals.
Beltline — common questions
- Which part of Calgary is Beltline in?
- Beltline is in the Centre sector of Calgary.
- Is Beltline on the CTrain?
- Yes. Victoria Park/Stampede Station sits inside the Beltline boundary.
- What schools are in Beltline?
- Beltline has 4 schools inside its boundary: Alberta Ballet School, Connaught School, Discovering Choices, and Lady Fatima Academy.
- How big is Beltline?
- Beltline covers about 2.9 square kilometres.
- Which communities border Beltline?
- Beltline borders Bankview, Cliff Bungalow, Downtown Commercial Core, Downtown East Village, Downtown West End, Inglewood, Lower Mount Royal, Mission, Ramsay, and Sunalta.
- Does Beltline have a Business Improvement Area?
- Yes — Beltline is served by the Victoria Park BIA.
- How many historic resources are in Beltline?
- Beltline has 138 historic resources on the City of Calgary's heritage inventory.
- Is Beltline good for walking and cycling?
- Beltline has 13 km of bike routes and 0.7 km of pathways and trails.
- Does Beltline have public art?
- Beltline has 5 public artworks.
- What is for sale in Beltline?
- Every home for sale in Beltline is on the listings map, with prices and photos, scoped to this community.
Sources and notes
- City of Calgary Open Data: community boundaries and classes, permits, parks and off-leash areas, urban forest, pathways and bikeways, historic resources, public art, schools, transit stops, secondary suites, short-term rentals, land supply. Permits, suites and short-term-rental licences refresh daily to weekly.
- https://www.calgary.ca/communities/profiles/beltline.html — City of Calgary community profile
- https://beltline.ca/about/about-beltline-history — Beltline.ca community history (Connaught 1905, Victoria Park 1914, formal Beltline 2003)
- https://www.beltlineyyc.ca/ — Beltline Neighbourhoods Association (community association)
- https://calgarycommunities.com/communities/beltline-neighbourhoods-association/ — Federation of Calgary Communities directory listing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltline,_Calgary — boundaries (CPR tracks N, Elbow River E, 17 Ave SW S, 14 St SW W) and four-district subdivision
- https://www.walkscore.com/CA-AB/Calgary/Beltline — Walk Score 91, Transit 80, Bike 90
- https://www.heritagecalgary.ca/explore-inventory — Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources (named Beltline entries)
- https://beltline.ca/community/heritage — Beltline Heritage listings (Bal-Cristo, Labour Temple, Memorial Park Library, Connaught School, etc.)
- https://www.calgary.ca/PDA/pd/Documents/Heritage-planning/heritage-walking-tours/heritage-connaught-beltline-heritage-walk-tour.pdf — Connaught-Beltline heritage walking tour PDF
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/west-end-telephone-exchange-building-1.4527717 — CBC News on West End Telephone Exchange heritage designation
- https://17thave.ca/ — 17 Avenue Retail and Entertainment District BIA
- https://www.victoriapark.org/about-bia — Victoria Park BIA
- https://www.bloxbia.ca/ — BLOX BIA (Beltline BIA, established 2020)
- https://www.calgary.ca/for-business/bias-in-calgary.html — Calgary BIA index
- https://www.calgary.ca/parks/central-memorial-park.html — Central Memorial Park (1912, 2 ha, cenotaph since 1928)
- https://beltline.ca/node/166 — Tomkins Park (1915)
- https://beltline.ca/community/parks-public-places/haultain-park — Haultain Park (former gravel lot, between 12 and 15 Avenue on 1 St SW)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac_Festival_(Calgary) — Lilac Festival history (founded 1989, 4 Street SW, ~100,000 attendees)
- https://yycbump.ca/about/ — BUMP Festival (founded 2017, August, ~30 days, largest street-art festival in Canada)
- https://www.visitcalgary.com/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/bump-festival — Tourism Calgary BUMP Festival page
- https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/engage/documents/beltline-arp/beltline-arp-part-1-fp-proposed-mar2019.pdf — Beltline Area Redevelopment Plan (FAR amendments to 4.0 on 17 Avenue sites)
- https://www.oneproperties.com/properties/blvd-beltline/ — BLVD Beltline (1,030 suites, two towers)
- https://developdistrict.com/projects/beltline-block — Beltline Block (315 units, 38 storeys)
- https://www.alberta.ca/final-flood-maps — Alberta Flood Hazard Area maps (updated May 2025)
- https://maps.calgary.ca/riverflooding/ — City of Calgary river flooding interactive map
- https://cbe.ab.ca/schools/find-a-school/Pages/default.aspx — Calgary Board of Education Find-a-School tool
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Canada_High_School — Western Canada High School (IB and AP programs)
- https://www.creb.com/Housing_Statistics/ — CREB Calgary monthly housing statistics (January 2026 apartment benchmark $301,200)
- https://www.zolo.ca/calgary-real-estate/beltline/trends — Beltline market trend aggregator (April 2026 update)
- https://www.honestdoor.com/cities/ab/calgary/beltline — Beltline market data (February 2026)
- https://www.visitcalgary.com/plan-and-stay/itineraries-and-travel-inspiration/beltline-neighbourhood-guide — Tourism Calgary Beltline guide (Ten Foot Henry, Model Milk, Native Tongues, Phil and Sebastian, Monogram)
- https://philsebastian.com/ — Phil and Sebastian Coffee Roasters
- https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/csps/cns/documents/neighbourhood-services/beltline-map.pdf — City of Calgary Beltline community services map