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I think it's been moving in that direction for a while. Still a bit sketchy at times, but not near as bad as it used to be. Moving the 8th and 8th medical helped, plus the new LRT stations being staggered and being bigger and brighter seems to have helped. Dominion opening up, plus this...

Since construction work has already started for this, I thought I'd start a thread. This thread has the height as 60m and the floor count at 14. It's 14 floors of the former Nexen tower, and height estimated at 60 meters.

https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/parker-nova-building-sapl-students-january-university-calgary Not sure which thread to put this in, but this seems as good as any. An update on the UofC's downtown architectural campus. From the article. observing the progress of massive...

https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/parker-nova-building-sapl-students-january-university-calgary Not sure which thread to put this in, but this seems as good as any. An update on the UofC's downtown architectural campus. From the article. observing the progress of massive...

https://calgaryherald.com/business/commercial-real-estate/parker-pet-valu-opening-new-distribution-centre-balzac Not a huge number of jobs, but 100 is still a good bump.

I'm surprised at how fast the sale went through, considering the anchor tenant is leaving. Maybe the buyers already have a tenant in mind, maybe the price was very low? I would say from a long term viewpoint, the campus buildings still have some potential. QP continues to build up with business...

Yep. The one for the other direction is right across the street.

Which article?

Good news for population nerds. Sounds like Calgary's civic census will be back in action starting 2027, and will run every two years.

I have been boycotting them for years, basically ever since Exxon forced the campus move. At the time I realized they were nothing more than an extension of Exxon. Same for Shell, they aren't any better. I usually try and use Petro Canada or Centex.

It's too bad it'll be a dirt lot for a while.

Back in the day, the 'downtown' area for cities was more about jobs than residents. It was the place people took the bus to go to work and the place people did their shopping. These days it's much more of a mix, and defining what is a downtown is a bit trickier.

Renders from the architect's site. Looks good, especially with two way traffic on 4th ave. and on 6th street also. Larger res Larger res Larger res

Houses are demolished, hopefully we’ll see some construction soon.

Areas not including what the riding map shows or the East Village map shows. There are still some densely populated blocks. The Downtown area as defined by Statscan would have had the Riding's 54K and EV's 4K, already adding up to 58K On top of that there are the areas marked in green that...