"You know, the pit, it's just, it's been there for so long. It's almost, like, a part of Calgary now." - Ann Perkins

It'll be all built out just in time for CSEC to ask for a new arena......

What program/website is this?

Could be a new permanent location of the Coke Stage for Stampede. Might help with some of the crowd control problems faced this past year.

Is there a reason they demolished the strip mall, but left the convenience store?

Does the new arena increase the Flames revenue by more than $20 million a year? If it does, the deal costs them nothing and they profit. But here is the kicker, we will never know because they aren't required to open their books. And this doesn't even take into account the immediate increase in...

I don't see a location in downtown that could turn into our modern day Hamsterdam (The Wire reference). Maybe the old Greyhound terminal? Any consolidation of social services is most likely going to be strongly fought by adjacent property owners, unless the city created some creative...

Strip mall is gone. Only the convenience store is left.

Fencing up around the whole site and the apartment building behind it. Looked like they were unloading more equipment yesterday. Must be getting ready for demo.

This sign is up for the strip mall on 16th ave that contains that record store on 6th street NW. Mosaic on 6th

All of the businesses in the strip mall are gone. Signs on the windows say they have permanently relocated.

Great question.....I think the efficiency comes from the fact that the other parkades are already built and not used to capacity. So why add more parking if there is capacity elsewhere?

Great point! I remember about 12 years ago driving to San Francisco and staying at a hotel downtown. They didn't have their own on-site parking facilities, so when we arrived they valet our car to a parking garage somewhere downtown they had contract for a certain amount of stalls. A much more...

This "forest" was created by McInnis and Holloway as a memorial forest. They have been creating different memorial forests in and around Calgary since 1996. You can read more about this program here: Memorial Forests Program More partnerships like this could be pretty cool.

City of Calgary: Progress is removing outdated historical structures and installing a modern sleek parking lot. Just think about the grain size of that crush. Is it 2mm? 3mm? Or do we get a company that spends some money and gives us an asphalt surface. One can only dream of that asphalt surface...