Live in Livingston
Brookfield's flagship north community — the Hub already open, a town centre planned, 30,000 people intended.
Livingston is Brookfield Residential's master-planned community at Calgary's northern tip, launched in 2015–17 under Smart Growth principles. The 2021 census recorded roughly 4,000 residents on the way to a planned 30,000, with a future town centre of over a million square feet pencilled in. Unusually for a new community, its centrepiece already exists: the Livingston Hub, the homeowners association's amenity centre. This is what living here is actually like.
The north's next town centre, arriving in phases
At the city's northern edge along Centre Street north of Stoney Trail, in the North Regional Context Plan area. Ward 3.
Livingston is Brookfield's flagship at the city's northern tip, launched 2015–17: roughly 4,000 residents at the 2021 census, on a plan built for 30,000 with a million-square-foot town centre to come.
What separates it from every other new community on this site: the amenity came first. The Livingston Hub — gymnasium, rinks, splash park, programming, funded by the HOA fee on title — has been open since the community's early years.
The rest is standard new-north maths: the ring road close, the airport closer than downtown, schools still on paper, and construction as the neighbourhood's normal state.
- An HOA fee is registered on title and funds the Hub — it is not optional
- No school open inside the community; designations move with growth
- The town centre is a plan — buy on what is open
- Downtown is 25–35 minutes; there is no rail and none under construction
How Livingston got here
- 2015Brookfield launches Livingston as its flagship north community.
- 2017–18First residents arrive; the Livingston Hub amenity centre opens early rather than last.
- 2021The census records roughly 4,000 residents.
- FutureA town centre of over a million square feet of retail, office and services is planned as the community grows toward 30,000.
Amenity-first planning, tested daily
The Hub anchors the community's daily life, and the first of a planned 200+ acres of parks and greenway links are on the ground; the rest arrives phase by phase.
The resident's angle: the Hub is the honest test of HOA value — visit on a weeknight and count the programs before judging the fee.
10 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–10 of 10 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are estimated from the centre of the community to each destination using Calgary's road grid, and are rounded to honest ranges rather than presented as precise figures. The airport and CrossIron read close; downtown is the trade you make for the northern tip.
Every gym within reach
The Hub inside, Vivo south, and the districts between. Confirm hours before you count on anything.
- Gymnasium, rinks, courts, splash park and programming
- Vivo carries the aquatic side, seven to eleven minutes south
- District clubs at Country Hills
- The greenway links are the free option
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Livingston Hub open | The HOA amenity centre — gymnasium, rinks, courts and programming. The annual HOA fee funds it; it is the community's real anchor. | 1–3 min |
| Vivo for Healthier Generations open | The north-central anchor — pools, gymnasium, fitness floor, climbing and a library branch, freshly expanded. | 7–11 min |
| Country Hills district clubs open | Commercial gyms in the established district south. | 7–11 min |
| Greenway links open | Free option: the first-built park and pathway segments. | 1–3 min |
The Hub plus Vivo covers a family's year — the missing piece is a pool inside the community.
Sites reserved, schools pending
Livingston's plan reserves school sites; none is open. Students designate outside the community with busing rules attached.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| No school open inside the community yet | Both boards | Livingston students designate to schools outside the community; sites are reserved in the plan. |
| Calgary Board of Education designations | Calgary Board of Education | Confirm current designation and busing in writing before you buy. |
| Calgary Catholic School District designations | Calgary Catholic | Likewise assigned outside the community for now. |
Alberta funds Catholic education the same way it funds public education, so there is no tuition for a resident student at either board. Get the designation and busing in writing from both boards before you buy.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel — the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The Hub's rinks and gym carry winter — the HOA fee working
- Priority snow routes keep the main roads clear
- Indoor recreation carries the season
- Long dark evenings, but rarely for weeks at a stretch
- Ski traffic west on the Trans-Canada peaks on Friday and Sunday
- Coldest snaps usually break with a chinook
- Noticeably longer light by month end
- Indoor pools at their busiest
- Melt and refreeze on the side streets — ice cleats weather
- Pathways reopen as the snow goes
- First patio afternoons on the warm chinook days
- Street sweeping begins late in the month
- Construction season restarts across the unbuilt phases
- Pathway and park season opens properly
- Garden centres open across the quadrant
- Migratory birds return to the parks
- Long evenings — sunset past 9pm by month end
- Lilacs and crabapples through the older streets
- Field sport seasons start on the community greens
- First genuinely warm stretches
- Peak daylight at the solstice — over 16 hours
- School year ends and the parks fill
- Evening thunderstorms begin building over the foothills
- Farmers' markets open for the season
- Hail season at the city's open northern tip
- Hottest month, with cool nights at this elevation
- Evening thunderstorms roll off the foothills
- Canada Day events in the parks
- Folk Festival on Prince's Island mid-month
- Kananaskis and Banff at their best, straight west
- Quietest weeks before school returns
- Smoke from western wildfires is possible
- School year restarts and morning traffic thickens
- First frost typically arrives late in the month
- Poplar and aspen colour begins
- Evenings shorten fast
- Peak autumn colour through the older tree-lined streets
- First snow is normal, and normally melts
- Snow tires go on across the quadrant
- Nose Hill's grasses turn gold
- Ski season opens west on the Trans-Canada
- Dark by 5pm
- Freeze sets in for good
- Holiday retail season begins
- Chinook arches over the western skyline on clear days
- Holiday lights through the community streets
- Outdoor rinks open when the freeze holds
- Quiet, short days between the holidays
36 photographs of the community and its surroundings
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Honesty note. This page uses only the general Calgary, seasonal, Alberta-wildlife and day-trip photography from the site's shared library. Nothing here is presented as a photograph of Livingston itself.