Ramsayite
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All for the price of 4 miles of west ring road (not including the vehicles, service facilities or destination infrastructure)
- Thread starter Meikkhaell
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MichaelS
Senior Member
All for the price of 20ish Main Streets streetscape upgrades?....
Ramsayite
Active Member
... or something approaching a 1000km of cycling track.
... or 100+ new community playgrounds
... 2000 affordable homes
... or 100+ new community playgrounds
... 2000 affordable homes
Tothewest
Active Member
sounds like a boring ass city
Tothewest
Active Member
where is the staging area for those who have been around there, same spot as the BMO project?
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
Apparently the NE corner is serving as one of the staging areas. Also it's good to see they have a time lapse camera set up.
Tothewest
Active Member
Looks like we're both correct. Truly hard to wrap your head around the scale and size, dwarfs the 'dome
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
If you have ever seen pictures of the old Boston garden next to the new, this will be that... newer is bigger. SFP will be even bigger than the new garden.
In place of the old garden there's now a faux old development
Granted its a rendering but this gives you a better idea of what's there now (maybe we get something like this as our "Grand Central" between Scotia Fire Place and East Village).
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FCC1982
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^The old Chicago Stadium vs the United Center is similar:
whatchyyc
Active Member
Bit of a lesser known example
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Anybody know where the rodeo was held at this time? Could they open the track to what looks like a patch of dirt on the inside rail?
The infield is there in '97
But it seems to have been removed when they built the new Grand Stand between '72 and '75...
Tothewest
Active Member
your second picture above is the old NW/SE orientated grandstand/track , the track/location changed afterward to the present north/south orientation. Stampede park hosted horesracing, so they just temporary cleared out a rodeo space with moveable grandstands
Mountain Man
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It's still kind of insane to me that the Dome is soon to be demolished, what a cool building. I had always hoped they would do a major reno one day and replace the corrugated metal cladding with glass or something.
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
I doubt the Saddledome site will be developed like shown in future density renders too. The addition of more flat space to an already crowded Stampede Park is too much of a positive for them to allow development.
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CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
The dome is so cool, too bad about the cables in the roof.
I doubt it too, but it doesn't have to be. All the development should go north of the SFP. I'd like to see a Football/Soccer field that butts up against to the river pathway along the Elbow. Maybe even move Weadickville there as a destination at the end of 17th. Could be something like this: