Though the spectre of U.S. tariffs led to some sleepless nights for Bob Hunter, the project lead for Calgary’s future event centre says Scotia Place construction continues to avoid significant effects.
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Second generation: Former mobile home parks are growing up
New life is being breathed into the former Blackfoot Mobile Home Park, a choice 17-acre site on Blackfoot Trail between Southland Drive and Heritage Drive S.E.
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White: Centre Street N. is Calgary’s forgotten Main Street
While most of Calgary’s main streets are thriving with new developments and tenants, Centre Street N. — from 7th Avenue to 16th Avenue N. — is struggling. Twenty years ago, many thought Centre Street would become an extension of downtown’s Chinatown, and while there is an Asian grocery store (Lambda Oriental Foods Supermarket) and several Asian-oriented restaurants, it is a far cry from being a bustling Chinatown Row.
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Nelson: Homeowners pay heavy price for city hall’s arrogance
History irritates city hall. What happened in Calgary before the tenure of this current administration is dismissed as either irrelevant or repugnant.
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Calgary sees rise in demand for lock and leave luxury real estate
Calgary’s luxury resale real estate market may be returning to a balance between buyers and sellers after years of strong demand, but one segment of the high-end market still running hot is a new type of home that offer downsizers a lock-and-leave lifestyle.
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Developer aiming to resurrect residential highrise project on vacant Eau Claire parking lots
The last two surface parking lots in Eau Claire are slated for the development of a cluster of highrise condo towers in the heart of the downtown community.
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‘It’s been devastating’: Marda Loop businesses continuing to face construction-related woes
More businesses in Marda Loop have started throwing in their towels as the city continues to work on upgrading the area, a six-month process delayed by nearly two years.
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Opinion: Calgary needs more public golf courses — not fewer fairways
In 1915, Shaganappi Point Golf Course was built in Calgary, one of the first municipally run golf courses in Western Canada. It was a forward-thinking development for a city of about 80,000 residents.
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Calgary home sales have cooled so much a big milestone was just hit
Home sales in Calgary have cooled so much that the city just hit its highest inventory since the pandemic, according to the Calgary Real Estate Board’s (CREB) July statistics.
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One year on from havoc-wreaking hailstorm, Calgary households, airport still wrestling with repairs, insurance fallout
A year after a major hailstorm wreaked more than $3 billion worth of insured damages, Calgary’s households and international airport are still grappling with the aftermath.
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