Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Park

Living in Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Park

Homes here are predominantly mobile homes on rented pads at the Calgary Village Trailer Park — around 72% of the community’s housing is mobile-home form, with a smaller mix of apartment and condo buildings and a very small detached remnant making up the balance. The Calgary Village Trailer Park is the dominant residential form inside the community — formerly known as Penbrooke Heritage Estates before a rename to its current title. This is a distinctive housing pattern compared with most Calgary communities, and the community’s identity centres on the mobile-home-park character rather than on detached-suburban or condo-tower forms. Rented-pad mobile-home ownership is a housing model with a different maintenance and cost profile than either detached ownership or apartment renting, and residents inside the trailer park typically own the mobile unit while paying monthly pad-rent to the park operator. The 17 Avenue SE International Avenue Business Revitalization Zone along the community’s north edge is one of Calgary’s most concentrated multicultural retail corridors — restaurants, grocery stores, and specialty retail line the strip and extend east into Applewood Park and west into Forest Lawn. 68 Street SE along the east edge is the community’s main north-south connector. There is no CTrain station inside; the closest LRT is the Blue Line further northwest along the corridor. For a same-batch peer immediately west across the community boundary, the Applewood Park profile is the direct west neighbour and closest same-corridor reference.

Things to do in Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Park

Elliston Park and Elliston Lake sit immediately south of the community and are the primary outdoor draw — the annual GlobalFest international fireworks competition each August fires from Elliston Park across the east-Calgary night sky, adjacent to the community rather than inside its boundary. Elliston Park’s paved multi-use pathway loops around Elliston Lake and connects into the wider SE pathway network for cycling, running, and off-leash dog walking. The International Avenue (17 Ave SE) corridor along the community’s north edge is one of Calgary’s core multicultural retail strips, with restaurants, grocery stores, and small independents concentrated along the strip. Any specific business inside or near the community is easiest to find through the Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Park business directory, which pulls current City of Calgary business-licence records. For a same-corridor peer further west along 17 Avenue SE, the Forest Lawn profile is a close reference on scale and character.

The Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Park real-estate read

Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Park’s average assessed value sits at $504K against the citywide $731K, well below the citywide average, reflecting the mobile-home-dominant housing mix on the small SE lot count. Values rose 19.8% year-over-year against the citywide 15.2% pace, running ahead of the wider Calgary market during the current cycle. Building activity for the community’s small footprint sits at 19 permits filed since 2024, weighted toward mobile-home-pad turnover and occasional apartment or condo redevelopment work as the community’s small residential base cycles. The community’s average build year sits around 2001, reflecting the older mobile-home-park character alongside the apartment and condo portions of the community. On safety, disorder runs at 83.1 events per 1,000 residents against the citywide baseline of 59 per 1,000. Year-over-year, the community’s disorder rate rose compared with the year before. For a comparable SE community at a similar corridor and value range, the Southview profile is a close reference along the same International Avenue corridor.