AADAC centre in Renfrew

[RedMileDJ]

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[Travis Munroe]

I personally really like the area. Working on a deal right now for a detached home in Renfrew.
It doesnt hurt to take your sisters advice and visit for a walk around. I have never heard of anything bad to come from the AADAC centre being there.

[Yeah_Baby]

I had a friend that used to live a few houses down from said centre. Didn't hear a bad thing.

[Knalus]

It's nothing to worry about. I live in renfrew, and I barely know it exists. It may, just may be an issue if you live beside it, but even then I would doubt it.

Renfrew is a great neighborhood. A little sleepier than I thought it would be when I first decided to move here. The worst issues with crime I've experienced is with the occasional bottlepickers, and that has been really tame. The hill keeps out any serious criminal element.

Choosing this neighborhood was a good decision, and I would recommend it to anyone.

[RedMileDJ]

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[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ

I'm really glad to hear this, and some of the other responses.

Keep it coming people. Just talked to my wife and we're going to check out the AADAC centre this week.

We're also looking at Mount Pleasant, Acadia and Harvest Hills. But like I said...we REALLY like what Renfrew has to offer, or at least what we have seen.

Anyone have anything else to say about the community?

AADAC centres are usually okay. Keep in mind that unlike methadone clinics (which you hear lots of outrage from communities that have them set up shop) where the clients are often messed up, AADAC centres are a place where alcohal and drug addicts come when they're sober, for scheduled meetings.

..and with Renfrew being far enough away from downtown, what you're going to find there is mostly people just commuting or being driven there, during the day, stone cold sober, for a meeting, then going back to where ever they came from.

You don't typically see hardcore addicts leaving a meeting and then wandering into the community looking for their next high.

[DFO]

Moved into Renfrew a month ago - so far so good! Didn't give the AADAC center a second thought when picking the neighbourhood. It's never come up in any of my conversations with neighbours.

[Knalus]

There are some great restaurants in bridge land and on Edmonton trail. Close to everything. transportation meant a lot to us, my family lives south of fish creek, and my mother in law lives in the far north west, I work downtown, and my wife goes to the u of c, and it is all easier to get to than from other neighborhoods.

The house prices tend to be cheaper than other neighborhoods, because your address says NE.

The best part is the trees. They are huge, and beautiful. You can't see my house on google earth, because of the huge trees on my property. Fall is gorgeous, summer is nice and shady, but the best is spring. Half the trees are pink or white with flowers. Everything is blooming. There are tonnes of cool birds, like wood######s and prarie chickens, and some I cannot identify. It seems 50 years ago everyone planted their favorite trees, and the results are awesome. Unlike most any other neighborhood in the city. More trees than west hillhurst, more residential than mission. Other cities have neighborhoods like this, but it is rare in Calgary.

If you haven't seen the neighborhood during other seasons, you are catching it at it's least beautiful. If I am selling my house, I'm looking at doing it in spring, there are about three weeks where my street is spectacular.

[Knalus]

Lol, funny how wood######s got censored.

[RedMileDJ]

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[kermitology]

My wife and I, along with another couple who are friends, just built a duplex in Renfrew. We love the neighbourhood. There are a tonne of kids on our street, and in general in this area.

We also just welcomed a couple of other friends into the neighbourhood on the weekend. It's a great place to live. To be honest, I completely forgot about AADAC being anywhere near here. That particular location is a bit buried in the neighbourhood, so you're quite unlikely to have or hear of many problems with it.

[bcsoda]

Originally Posted by flameswin

AADAC centres are usually okay. Keep in mind that unlike methadone clinics (which you hear lots of outrage from communities that have them set up shop) where the clients are often messed up, AADAC centres are a place where alcohal and drug addicts come when they're sober, for scheduled meetings.

..and with Renfrew being far enough away from downtown, what you're going to find there is mostly people just commuting or being driven there, during the day, stone cold sober, for a meeting, then going back to where ever they came from.

You don't typically see hardcore addicts leaving a meeting and then wandering into the community looking for their next high.

I don't know the exact details of it, but I do know that people also go there to stay over night (the same building is also home to the "Renfrew Recovery Detoxification Centre"), so it's not just people going to meetings.

That being said, I'm not trying to scare you out of the neighbourhood. I grew up in, and for the most part still live around there. My home is a 15-20 minute walk from AADAC and the only reason I actually know it's there is because someone I know works there. Before that I had no idea it even existed.

[handgroen]

is the catholic school you're referring to st alphonsus? if so i attended that school for 3 years and didn't even know aadac existed in renfrew. i did however not live in renfrew, i bussed in. where i did live though was literally next door to the main aadac centre behind the bethany care centre. walked past it alone twice a day each day as a junior high aged boy. never a problem or incident, not one.

[Canehdianman]

I'd be more leery of the Catholic school personally.

[Ozy_Flame]

The centre was where someone was sent to rehabilitate on the show Intervention.

Therefore, certainty can be made on the safety of a particular location based on its TV exposure. Yep.

[chemgear]

Doesn't seem to be an issue crime wise in the immediate area (Calgary Police Mapping with data points for the last 6 months).

http://crimemap.calgarypolice.ca/con...aimerPage.aspx

[tvp2003]

We looked at a few places in Renfrew when we were house-shopping last year; ended up in Tuxedo instead. Definitely bigger lots/houses are available; lots of parks as well. One thing I would mention -- do you take transit at all? The #17 bus service appears to be much less frequent than the #3 or even the #4/#5 that goes along Edmonton Trail. Someday if I can afford to drive to work downtown I would definitely re-consider the area.

We also looked at Mount Pleasant as well but didn't find anything in our price range that wasn't a tiny old shack. Can I ask why Harvest Hills? We used to live up in North Central and there are some nice houses up there in a pretty well established community, but not a whole lot else (except maybe the golf course).

[Cowboy89]

I know nothing about the Renferw AADAC facility but I would presume that anything that has it's name out front and it fairly visable and obvious in the community can't be that bad. With that kind of transparency comes scrutiny from surrounding residents. With scrutiny from residents, there probably comes better mitigation strategies for the negative elements of running the facility in the community.

It's the things that are underground that are probably a bigger danger to a neighborhood. Things like grow-ops, meth houses, homes of gangsters, etc. Ironically these are starting to become more suburban problems than inner-city ones. Organized criminals use the same square footage value proposition that a lot of people try to use to justify moving out there.

[RedMileDJ]

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[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

It's the things that are underground that are probably a bigger danger to a neighborhood. Things like grow-ops, meth houses, homes of gangsters, etc. Ironically these are starting to become more suburban problems than inner-city ones. Organized criminals use the same square footage value proposition that a lot of people try to use to justify moving out there.

These sites may also be of interest:

http://www.matthewdekort.com/buyer/growops.html

http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/326...ary-residents/