Event Centre could break ground in 8 months

After eight years of talking about a new Event Centre the City of Medicine Hat could break ground on the project in eight months’ time.
On Monday night city council agreed to ratify an agreement with the Box Springs Business Park on a land gift and servicing costs to place a proposed Event Centre on commercial development in the city’s northwest.
Today and Thursday, city staff members will go through proposals from a short list of four companies that answered a call for designs of the proposed 6,500-seat spectator arena that the alderman in charge of steering the project says will cost no more than $61.5 million.

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2nd submission for civic tower unlike anything else in Edmonton

I’m off for a week on vacation, but I couldn’t resist coming back to post this submission for possible new civic office tower downtown. It’s a flat-iron shape with a series of gardens bringing public space and great airflow into the office tower.

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