Calgary’s plan for artistic and cultural development will focus on continuing to develop a downtown “arts district” but not to the exclusion of arts activities in the suburbs, city council heard Tuesday.
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Dollar Tree coming to downtown Red Deer
The former Fields store in downtown Red Deer is poised to return to retail life.
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Downtown or Bust: Calgary and Edmonton attempt to revitalize their downtown cores
Both of Alberta’s major cities are well-known for their sprawling suburbs and underutilized downtowns. But as infrastructure costs grow and young people express more interest in staying closer to the city core, Edmonton and Calgary are creating ambitious projects to bring people back to the inner city.
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Council urged to acquire downtown land for convention centre expansion
Calgary’s convention centre authority is urging city council to acquire downtown land “at no risk” within the next year for the facility’s next major expansion.
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Update: 71-storey Edmontonian would dominate city skyline
As an impending construction boom promises to push the skyline of this city up, one Edmontonian could be standing particularly tall.
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Calgary downtown office market sees rising vacancy
CALGARY – Calgary’s downtown office market is continuing to experience a trend that started in mid-2012 with four of the last five quarters witnessing absorption dip into negative territory.
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Home Improvement: Canada’s most famous boom town looks to the future
Like most boom towns, Fort McMurray is almost as rich in symbolism and metaphor as it is in the commodity that attracts people to it. But forget the Burtynsky-esque shots of the oil sands, its tailings ponds or any other aspect of the actual industry itself, because the community’s most telling – and important – metaphor can be found on Franklin Avenue just south of what passes for a downtown core.
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Payne working at keeping a downtown post office
Staff at the Canada Post Office on First Street, across from City Hall, say its closing is not a fait accompli and our MP has taken up the cause in response to strong public support for a downtown office.
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Revitalized downtown will take City investment: some candidates
The revitalization of Medicine Hat’s downtown core is going to take an investment of public funds and a strong vision, say some of the candidates in the municipal election.
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Jasper Avenue opens for business
After 1 1/2 years of construction, Jasper Avenue is finally open to four lanes of traffic.
The $20.9 million streetscape project is now complete.
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