Chinese_T
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Decided to give the 'paint removed' render another try based on the correct brick colour
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Allied did something similar with the Five Roses property on 10th Ave
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Decided to give the 'paint removed' render another try based on the correct brick colour
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If business demand is there, the owners of the Backlot should be able to set up again in a new location.It’s sad to see the back lot, go, but I have to agree. The city can’t be in a situation where they are deciding what developments can and can’t go ahead based on who the current users are.
D.O.P will be relocating to the grain exchange building.I'm always excited for new high-density developments, but I hope some of the current restaurants there find their way. I frequent Cafe Med and they just finished their renovations a couple years ago, and D.O.P. is fantastic and I don't think they've been open for much longer than a year!
I don't get why they put the stop half-way down the block, apart from the fact that that's where the stop is today - which I assume was always due to the super narrow sidewalk near the corner. With that resolved, shouldn't the bus stop move back to the corner like is typical practice?Interesting take on a bus stop!
10th Avenue & 1st Street SW was the location of the second Chinatown in Calgary after it was first displaced from its original location on Stephen Ave and 2nd Street SW by the Great Calgary Fire of 1886. Chinatown was ultimately forced to move again to their current home at the base of the Street Street Bridge after CN Rail announced plans for a train station and a hotel in the 10th Avenue location, which drove up land speculation.Can someone explain the Chinatown commemorative wall on the south side? Chinatown, on 10th Ave?
Anyone who helped kill the downtown penetrator plan deserves a plaque even if it's not in Chinatown10th Avenue & 1st Street SW was the location of the second Chinatown in Calgary after it was first displaced from its original location on Stephen Ave and 2nd Street SW by the Great Calgary Fire of 1886. Chinatown was ultimately forced to move again to their current home at the base of the Street Street Bridge after CN Rail announced plans for a train station and a hotel in the 10th Avenue location, which drove up land speculation.
Chinatown was threatened again in the 1970's when the proposed "Downtown Penetrator", which was a freeway designed to run along the Bow River and through Chinatown, would have destroyed the community. Members of the Chinese-Calgarian community with the help of MLA George Ho Lem successfully killed the proposal. There has been a long history of the displacement of Calgary's Chinatown and many attempts to gentrify the community.
For sure. It would have also destroyed Eau Claire, both the recreational wonderland that it is and the most expensive real estate property in Calgary. We have enough semi-freeways that roll through our downtown. Now let's fix that.Anyone who helped kill the downtown penetrator plan deserves a plaque even if it's not in Chinatown![]()