How Alberta’s new logistics hubs bring it all together

Not surprisingly, most of Alberta’s transportation infrastructure and shipping activity is centred around Edmonton and Calgary. Those communities, and the ones surrounding them, have been busy building the connections that give Alberta’s businesses access to markets in Canada, the U.S. and overseas. Over the past decade, both Edmonton and Calgary have planned and begun development on multimodal transportation and logistics hubs at their airports. Here’s a look at those facilities, as well as some of the others that have sprung up around the province.

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22 football fields large, Target distribution centre to open near Balzac

CALGARY — Target Canada will open its massive 1.3 million-square-foot distribution centre in Rocky View County, in the Balzac area, in January and will employ hundreds of workers as the facility will service the company’s stores in Western Canada, the Herald has learned.

Colin Yankee, senior director for supply chain logistics for Target Canada, said the facility is located between Stoney Trail on the south and Highway 566 on the north on High Plains Boulevard, just east of the CrossIron Mills shopping centre.

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