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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Demolition project to change Balzac skyline
The skyline in Balzac is expected to change as structural demolition on the Nexen Balzac Complex will begin in July.
Andrew Hamilton, Nexen Balzac Complex Abandonment and Reclamation (NBCAR) project manager, presented Rocky View County council with an updated timeline of the field and plant activities, June 18.
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Preserving the ‘Prairie skyline’
At one time, 48 grain elevators stood on the CP rail line from Stirling to Manyberries. Only seven of them remain.
As such, a pair of southern Albertans have their sights set on preserving an aging artifact once known as an iconic part of the “Prairie skyline.”
Jason Sailer and Cody Kapcsos are part of the Southern Alberta Grain Elevator Society (SAGES) – a group whose goal is to save and restore the nearly 90-year-old Ogilvie grain elevator located in the hamlet of Wrentham, about 60 kilometres southeast of Lethbridge.
They want to move the elevator to the Galt Historic Railway Park just north of Stirling, about 30 kilometres away, within the next year and a half.
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Calgary’s skyline heading higher than ever before with tower taller than The Bow
Calgary’s skyline will again be redefined in a few years, with a new downtown skyscraper designed to stand even taller than the Bow.
Brookfield Properties submitted this week plans for a 56-storey, 247-metre tower to rise on the site of the former Herald building, along with a 178-metre similarly styled tower on the same block.
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Calgary’s ‘epicentre’ of evil, death and darkness may soon become a frightening piece of the past
CALGARY— The Cecil Hotel is the kind of landmark that gets noticed only once as commuters edge their way in and out of Calgary’s downtown. Its windows now boarded, the building is painted a shade of pale blue that seems to become invisible against the skyline in winter, when the light blanches everything except the city’s ever-growing garden of glass skyscrapers.
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