Live in Rangeview
Calgary's first agrihood — a 320-acre garden-to-table community on the far southeast edge, still under a tenth built out.
Rangeview sits on land the Ollerenshaw family has farmed since 1923. Calgary city council approved the 320-acre Rangeview Area Structure Plan in December 2018, and Robert Ollerenshaw's Section23 Developments broke ground in October 2020, opening its show home parade a year later. By 2026 roughly 2,500 people lived here, against a plan that targets about 23,400 residents over 15 to 20 years of build-out. This is what living here is actually like, this early.
A working farm turned into a plan, with most of the plan still ahead
Located in the Southeast planning sector between 52 Street SE and 88 Street SE, adjacent to Mahogany and Seton. Ward 12.
Rangeview sits on land the Ollerenshaw family has farmed since 1923. Joe and Florence Ollerenshaw built the original farmstead; their descendant Robert Ollerenshaw founded Section23 Developments and turned part of that land into what the company markets as Calgary's first "garden-to-table" community — an agrihood built around working greenhouses and market gardens rather than ornamental landscaping. Council approved the 320-acre Area Structure Plan in December 2018; Section23 broke ground in October 2020 and opened its show home parade a year later.
The garden concept is not just branding on the ground so far. Two staffed greenhouses, market garden beds, a pollinator garden and community apiary, and the HOA-run Harvest Hall are already open, threaded around a naturalized wetland and storm pond. It is a genuinely different amenity package from a standard new-community plan — and a small one, still concentrated near the first phases.
Where the build-out actually stands. By 2026, roughly 2,500 people lived in Rangeview, against a plan that targets about 23,400 residents over 15 to 20 years. That is well under a tenth of the way there. Expect construction traffic, phased servicing and unbuilt lots for a long time yet.
Services. No school operates inside Rangeview today — every designated school sits 12 to 21 minutes away, in McKenzie Lake, Acadia or Deer Ridge. A new Calgary Catholic high school at the Seton/Rangeview boundary, sized for 1,525 students and budgeted at $85 million, is under construction and due to open around 2027 — the first school actually built for the area. South Health Campus and the Seton YMCA are both five to eight minutes north.
A naming note. Homes marketed as "Rangeview Springs" by the builder Genstar sit on streets that share the Rangeview name — Rangeview Way SE among them — and use the same nearby amenities. Nothing we found treats it as a City of Calgary–recognized community distinct from Rangeview; it reads as another developer's marketing label for land inside the same plan area, not a separate place.
- No school operates inside Rangeview yet; the nearest designated schools are 12 to 21 minutes away, and the new Catholic high school won't open until around 2027
- Confirm the current HOA and fee schedule directly — Harvest Hall and the on-site amenities are HOA-managed, and no published fee figure could be verified
- "Rangeview Springs" is Genstar's own marketing name for homes inside the same plan area, not a separate community — don't pay a premium expecting something distinct
- Construction traffic, unpaved lots and phased servicing are still normal here — go and look at a specific address before you commit
- The plan targets roughly 23,400 residents over 15 to 20 years; only about a tenth of that has arrived so far
- Kananaskis and the mountains are a long haul from this corner of the far southeast — budget well over an hour and a half
How Rangeview got here
- 1923Joe and Florence Ollerenshaw establish the family farmstead south of Calgary that later becomes Section 23 — the land Rangeview is built on.
- 2018Calgary city council approves the Rangeview Area Structure Plan in December, covering roughly 320 acres in the far southeast planning sector.
- 2020Section23 Developments, founded by Robert Ollerenshaw, breaks ground on Phase 1 in October.
- 2021Section23 opens its show home parade in October; the first residents move into Calgary's first 'garden-to-table' community the same year.
- 2025BILD Calgary Region names Rangeview its Best New Community.
- 2026Roughly 2,500 residents live in Rangeview so far — still under a tenth of the approximately 23,400 people the plan targets over 15 to 20 years of build-out.
- ~2027A new Calgary Catholic high school at the Seton/Rangeview boundary — 1,525-student capacity, $85 million budget — is under construction, the first school actually built to serve the area.
A working farm's worth of green space, and a wetland doing double duty as a storm pond
The garden-to-table concept shows up as real, staffed infrastructure: two greenhouses, market garden beds, a pollinator garden and community apiary, and a barn-themed playground, all threaded around 23-plus acres of naturalized wetland and storm pond.
The resident's angle: this is a genuinely different park package from a standard new-community plan, but it is also small and young — there is no Fish Creek-scale wild space inside the community, and Fish Creek Provincial Park itself is a real drive away, not a walk. Judge the garden amenities as what they are today, not the fuller vision on the developer's website.
19 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 1–12 of 19 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 rounded to honest ranges rather than presented as precise figures. Several nearby distances (South Health Campus, the Seton YMCA, the airport) are anchored to figures published by the community's own marketing; the rest — including Deerfoot Trail, downtown and Kananaskis — are estimated the same way as on every other page on this site.
Every gym within reach
There is exactly one indoor communal space inside Rangeview today — Harvest Hall — and it is not a fitness facility. Everything else, gym or otherwise, means a drive north to Seton.
- GoodLife, Anytime Fitness and Orangetheory all operate in the Seton Urban District, five to eight minutes away
- Cardel Rec South adds four indoor rinks and a field house about ten kilometres south
- Harvest Hall, the HOA-run building on site, hosts community programming but is not a gym
- No purpose-built recreation centre is confirmed for Rangeview itself
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Rangeview greenhouses & Harvest Hall open | The only indoor communal space inside Rangeview today. HOA-managed and four-season, but not a fitness facility. | 1–2 min |
| Brookfield Residential YMCA at Seton open | Among the largest YMCAs in the world — multiple pools, twin arenas, gymnasiums, climbing wall, running track and a library branch. | 4–7 min |
| GoodLife Fitness — Seton open | National chain club in the Seton Urban District. | 5–8 min |
| Anytime Fitness — Seton open | 24-hour access chain gym at Seton. | 5–8 min |
| Orangetheory Fitness — Seton open | Heart-rate-based group interval training studio. | 5–8 min |
| Cardel Rec South open | Four indoor rinks and a field house — the nearest large public rec centre south of Rangeview. | 13–18 min |
Confirm terms before you assume anything is included. Harvest Hall and the on-site garden amenities are HOA-managed; verify current access and fees directly with Section23 or the community association rather than the marketing pages.
No school open inside the community yet
Every currently designated school for Rangeview sits outside the community — McKenzie Lake, Mountain Park and Lord Beaverbrook on the public side, Don Bosco on the Catholic side, all 12 to 21 minutes away. A new Catholic high school at the Seton/Rangeview boundary is under construction and is the first school actually being built for the area.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Lake School | Calgary Board of Education | Public K–5, the designated elementary — about 13 minutes away in McKenzie Lake. No school yet operates inside Rangeview. |
| Mountain Park School | Calgary Board of Education | Public grades 6–9, the designated junior high, about 14 minutes away. |
| Lord Beaverbrook High School | Calgary Board of Education | Public grades 10–12, the designated senior high, about 21 minutes away in Acadia. |
| Don Bosco School | Calgary Catholic | Catholic K–9, the designated school for Rangeview, about 19 minutes away in Deer Ridge. |
| New Rangeview High School (Seton/Rangeview) | Calgary Catholic | Under construction — 1,525-student capacity, $85 million budget, targeted to open around 2027. Would be the first school actually built to serve the area. |
Alberta funds Catholic education the same way it funds public education, so there is no tuition for a resident student at either board. School designations for a community this new change often — confirm the current designation and busing for a specific address with the board before you buy, not after.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel — the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The greenhouses and market gardens sit closed for the season — the '3-season' hub goes quiet
- Chinooks reach this far southeast corner last and weakest of anywhere in the city
- Harvest Hall's winter programming is the closest indoor option on site
- The Seton YMCA, five to eight minutes away, carries the indoor season otherwise
- Family Day programming runs at Harvest Hall and the Seton YMCA
- Coldest stretches usually break with a chinook
- Noticeably longer light by month end
- Show-home traffic picks up ahead of the spring building season
- Melt and refreeze on new streets and unpaved lots still under construction
- Greenhouse prep begins ahead of the growing season
- The wetland and storm pond start to open up
- First bare-pavement days on the community's pathways
- Greenhouses reopen for the three-season growing calendar
- Market garden beds are turned and planted
- Migratory waterfowl return to the naturalized wetland and storm pond
- Construction restarts across Rangeview's unbuilt phases
- The pollinator garden comes into bloom and the community apiary gets active
- Long evenings — sunset past 9pm by month end
- The barn-themed playground and parks fill on weekends
- Field sport and community league seasons start in neighbouring Mahogany and Auburn Bay
- Peak daylight at the solstice — over 16 hours
- School year ends at the designated schools, all 12 or more minutes away
- Market gardens and greenhouses at full production
- Evening thunderstorms roll in from the foothills
- Calgary Stampede — ten days, roughly half an hour northwest
- Harvest Hall's outdoor classroom and amphitheatre host summer programming
- Hottest month, with little mature tree cover yet across the community
- South Health Campus and Seton remain the closest services
- Honey harvest from the community apiary
- Market gardens at their most productive ahead of the fall harvest
- Quietest weeks before school returns
- Warm evenings along the wetland and storm pond pathways
- Harvest proper in the market gardens — the community's name-defining month
- School year restarts at McKenzie Lake, Mountain Park and Don Bosco, all outside the community
- First frost typically arrives late in the month
- Migrating waterfowl stage again on the wetland
- Greenhouses wind down for the season
- First snow is normal, and normally melts
- Snow tires go on
- Shrub and aspen colour turns through the naturalized areas
- Greenhouses and market gardens close for winter
- Dark by 5pm
- Freeze sets in on the storm pond
- Holiday retail season begins at Seton and Mahogany Village Market
- Harvest Hall's indoor programming carries the community through the holidays
- Chinooks, when they come, arrive late and weak this far southeast
- Quiet, short days between the holidays
- Work continues on the new Catholic high school toward its ~2027 opening
36 photographs of the community and its surroundings
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Honesty note. This page uses only the general Calgary, seasonal, Alberta-wildlife, day-trip and South Health Campus photography from the site's shared library — there is no freely licensed photography of Rangeview itself yet, because it is this new. Nothing here is presented as a photograph of Rangeview.