Sobeys is the first to put shovel into ground in The Quarry that will radically change the downtown core of Cochrane.
The foundation is now being laid for the Sobeys grocery store being developed on the corner of Railway St. and Charlesworth Ave.by Barry Metcalfe to replace his existing Cochrane IGA store. The new store will be more than double the size of the existing Cochrane IGA.
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More than $360,000 in upgrades to the Washout Creek trail loop was proposed at the Monday, Oct. 22 Devon town council meeting.
The trail loop, which begins at the Lions Campground and follows Washout Creek for several kilometers, suffers from a lack of heavy-duty maintenance. Bridges over the creek along the route are degraded, and are now only capable of supporting foot traffic.
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EDMONTON – People sporting green ribbons and buttons packed the council chambers Friday morning — even lining the upper balcony — as they waited for the first speakers on Edmonton’s food and agriculture policy.
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Why houses/condos may fall in value but apartment buildings do not.
There is a common misperception that all real estate classes are created equal. House prices are falling in some cities in Canada, primarily because the rules to get mortgages have changed, such as increased debt-coverage ratios, higher down payments and shorter amortization. This allowed our Finance Minister Hon. Jim Flaherty to tighten consumer debt without raising interest rates! This leads some to believe that those (modestly) falling house prices will also affect other real estate classes, such as apartment buildings. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Loyal BNN viewers might have been confused earlier this week when instead of the normal business chatter, they heard a heated discussion over somebody’s ‘tone.’ Some viewers may even have thought they had switched the channel to a daytime talk show by mistake.
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In a sign of the growing human pressures on Kananaskis Country, the province on Friday announced a contract to expand a water plant in the mountain playground west of Calgary.
Utilities player EPCOR has been awarded the contract in a public-private partnership (P3) to upgrade the $59.6 million water and wastewater treatment at Evan-Thomas, off of Hwy. 40 just north of the Mt. Kidd Golf Course.
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A group of developers think the benefits of moving to Cochrane are a well-kept secret and wants that to change.
Four developers with Cochrane-based communities have teamed up for a new campaign called LiveCochrane to promote the town west of Calgary as an attractive option for buying a new home.
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The Colliers International downtown office team of Randy Fennessey and Ally La-lani have been testing the waters for a new tower and, encouraged by some very positive interest, they have begun marketing in earnest the 500,000-square-foot Palliser West tower for Aspen Properties.
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Looking for an investment with skyscraper-high returns? Forget condominiums in Toronto or Calgary and think about real estate investment trusts that own apartments.
That’s the conclusion of Michael Smith, a real estate analyst at Macquarie Equities Research, in the fourth annual installment of his study comparing a REIT investment in the apartment sector to a condo investment. The REITs are still way ahead.
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Northwestern Air Lease Ltd. is looking to extend its reach from Red Deer, with proposals for new passenger routes to Abbotsford and Fort St. John, B.C., currently before Transport Canada. READ