Fairways North Overview
Fairways North encompasses the northern portion of Regina's Fairways West master-planned community in the northwest quadrant of the city. Anchored by Rochdale Boulevard — the primary commercial arterial through northwest Regina — and Westhill Drive, this emerging commercial area is at the leading edge of the city's residential expansion, with substantial new residential growth in Fairways West and adjacent communities creating an expanding consumer base that is driving demand for neighbourhood-serving retail, medical office, professional services, and convenience commercial.
The commercial opportunity in Fairways North mirrors the developmental trajectory of other successful Regina suburban commercial nodes. As rooftop density increases and the residential community matures, the commercial component transitions from speculative to proven, attracting national franchise tenants and professional office users seeking proximity to the growing northwest residential market. Infrastructure investment — new roads, utilities, and transit — is advancing in the corridor as part of the city's northwest growth plan, providing the foundational support for sustained commercial development over the next decade.
Key Commercial Corridors
Rochdale Boulevard is the primary commercial arterial serving the northwest Regina residential communities, including Fairways West, Greens on Gardiner, and adjacent developments. The commercial nodes along Rochdale at major cross-street intersections are planned commercial reserve sites within the master plan, with serviced pads available for retail strip, medical office, and pad-site development. Westhill Drive provides secondary access into the Fairways North residential area and supports neighbourhood-scale commercial at key intersections.
The Rochdale corridor connects northwest Regina to the broader city commercial network via Pasqua Street North and Ring Road, providing essential arterial connectivity that underpins the commercial viability of the Fairways North location. Commuter traffic flows along Rochdale between the northwest residential areas and the city's central employment districts create consistent daytime traffic exposure for commercial tenants at key intersections.
Asset Classes
Neighbourhood Strip Retail
New construction pads on Rochdale Boulevard. $20–30/sf NNN. Pharmacy, grocery convenience, personal care tenants.
Medical & Dental Office
Purpose-built clinical space. $22–30/sf gross. Family medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy for northwest residential catchment.
QSR Drive-Through
Pad sites for national drive-through operators. $24–32/sf NNN. Capturing residential community commuter traffic on Rochdale.
Commercial Land
Serviced commercial reserve pads. $50–120/sf. Master-planned community commercial node sites at Rochdale intersections.
Investment Drivers
The primary investment driver in Fairways North is the pace of residential development in northwest Regina. The Fairways West, Greens on Gardiner, and adjacent master-planned communities are among the most active residential development areas in Saskatchewan, with hundreds of new homes completed annually. Each new household adds to the consumer demand captured by neighbourhood commercial within the Rochdale Boulevard corridor, improving existing centre occupancy and supporting the case for new commercial development.
Medical and professional office is the most rapidly growing demand category in Fairways North — northwest Regina's population skews younger and family-oriented, with high demand for primary care physicians, dentists, pediatricians and allied health practitioners. The shortage of medical office supply in the northwest quadrant relative to population growth creates a compelling case for purpose-built clinical development, with pre-leasing feasible from qualified medical practitioners seeking to establish northwest practices.
Development Activity
Active commercial development in Fairways North centres on new strip retail construction, medical office buildings, and QSR pad site development along the Rochdale Boulevard corridor. Multiple commercial reserve sites within the Fairways West master plan remain available for development, with the City of Regina's infrastructure program extending utilities and road networks to support continued northwest expansion. Commercial land values are rising as residential density increases, creating urgency for developers to secure prime commercial pad sites before market maturation eliminates the growth-stage pricing advantage.
