Regina’s long-anticipated Taylor Field redevelopment is moving forward after 14 years of planning, The Regina Leader-Post reported.

City council recently approved an annual land and real estate report that includes zoning plans for the vacant 15-acre former stadium site and a $1-million allocation from the Land Development Reserve for design work.

Once home to the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, the land at Lewvan Drive and Saskatchewan Drive will be divided by 10th Avenue, with a community park planned for the south section and residential development to the north, according to the Leader-Post.

“It’s very seldom that cities have the opportunity to build so close to the downtown,” Bill Neher, the city’s housing manager, told the Leader-Post.

He views the redevelopment of Taylor Field and a nearby rail-yard site, known as the Yards, as an “extraordinary” opportunity to modernize the areas.

“We are excited and sometimes overwhelmed by the possibilities and the responsibility of it,” he told the Leader-Post. “But it also allows us to do our best work in imagining sort of what these new areas could be and how they could contribute to the fabric of the community.”

Part of the city’s Regina Revitalization Initiative since 2011, the mothballed site has remained fenced and unused since the stadium’s demolition in 2017.

The once iconic stadium was the jam-packed scene of many classic Roughriders games featuring stars like quarterback Ron Lancaster, (who later coached the team there), running back George Reed and other CFL legends in decades gone by.

The historic stadium’s name lives on at the club’s new home. The Roughriders now play on Taylor Field at Mosaic Stadium.

Pictured: Taylor Field in Regina, when the stadium was still standing.

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