CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Catch me up because I honestly don't know. What call did they make on the sliding track and smaller ski jumps?
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Some sort of tented sports facility has gone up at Shouldice Park.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Seasonal dome I believe. Part of the Grey Cup a couple years ago.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
That's a football fiend, they just made it a full year field. I take my dog to the offleash park in shouldice and spent the last year trying to figure out what the hell they were building, now I know!
darwink
Senior Member
They closed the small ski jumps because their operational and maintenance cost was high compared to the number of users. They chose not to renew the sliding tracks because they thought they’d get 100% of the capital cost funded by government, but due to either incompetence in estimating or not accounting for time, the funding was more like 70%, and they *wouldn't* dip into their own endowment to make it work.
They thought they could play chicken with governments to force them to come back to the table but that just doesn’t happen.
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The Familia
Active Member
So is that the end of the ski jumps and sliding tracks? Will they all be dismantled and removed? Such a shame that these facilities have been left to rot.
Oh okay, that explains it. It was under construction most of this summer, and the tent portion only went up in the last week or so.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
One of the best gifts I’ve given is a trip down the bobsleigh track to my dad and brother. But I don’t know if it’s worth spending a lot of the track. There’s no appetite to host another Olympics. Might be time to let it go. Winsport can still be a internationally renowned sports facility without the bobsleigh/luge track. I can see why the ski jumps have been left to, let’s say ‘expire’. Although I think it’s important to find sport, I think the old ski jump area is much better suited as a amphitheater.
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
New farmers market.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
Almost looks like Eau Claire market interior, or at least Eau Claire could have been this super easily.
Urban Outdoorsman
Active Member
I actually went to the new farmers market for the first time and I was impressed! I still prefer Crossroads but it's really nice to have a farmer's market in the west. I suspect this will be a real catalyst for Greenwich and maybe even Trinity Hills, I can imagine a lot of people wanting to live close to this!
GoVertical
Senior Member
The Prairie Chicken is back on the U of C campus:
Construction on the new 17th ave Mcdonalds' underway
Silence&Motion
Senior Member
There goes what could possibly be the last of the 80s-era faux-1950s retro-style cafes in the city a la The Max on Saved by the Bell or The Peach Pit on 90210.
The Familia
Active Member
Is the entire building being demolished and rebuilt? I think it will be a cool draw to have a McDonald's with a rooftop patio in the city!