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ByeByeBaby said:
The next season of Top Chef US has been announced as being in "Canada" (with the promo featuring judge Gail Simmons in her hometown of Toronto). There's been a lot of filming in Toronto apparently, although host Kristen and Gail were posing at Inglewood Drive-In on Kristen's instagram. The way the US show is filmed is typically with a single major location, with one or two episodes filmed doing an excursion nearby during the season and then the last few episodes filmed somewhat later in a completely different location. For example, the most recent season ("Wisconsin") was filmed in Milwaukee; there was a two episode trip to Madison fairly early in the run, and then the finale was filmed on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Vancouver/Whistler was the finale location of one season (the not-great Texas season). The show does a lot of work on promoting local restaurants and food businesses, and is underwritten heavily by tourism boards.

My guess is that the main season is set in Toronto, with a couple of day trips (Niagara for sure, perhaps cottage country?), and then Calgary/Banff is either the semi-finale location for the last 6-8 chefs with an overseas finale, or we are hosting the actual finale.


A rumour is that a challenge will involve cooking on covered wagons.
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There was some kind of filming going on at Olympic plaza this week, they had Calgary stampede covered wagons in the plaza and it seemed like it was food related, so this tracks!
 
Mountain Man said:
I think Calgary is perfectly suited to stand in as "Generic City USA" in much the way Vancouver does, especially if Generic City gets snow lol.
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Vancouver makes a good stand in for any place coastal, and if mountains are part of the geography, it works out well.

The film that really made me crack up was 'Rumble in the Bronx' It didn't sub in very well for the Bronx in the scenes with mountains in the background lol.
 
Mountain Man said:
Reminds me of when Exit Wounds filmed in Calgary, was supposed to be Detroit but the Calgary Tower made an appearance haha.
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Same for Silverstreak in the 70's. There's a road sign in the movie that says 'Welcome to Kansas City' complete with the Calgary tower in the background :)

The sign isn't in this still, but this is the shot of the skyline, right after the sign
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trtcttc said:
Funny their projection for population growth is also 2.8% so we'll basically se no change on a per capita basis.
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Probably a good thing, as both provincially and nationally population growth has been far outpacing economic growth, which is why we've suffered both increasing unemployment and shrinking per capita GDP. If we assume a current population of 5 million, 2.8% is an additional 140,000 people of which Calgary and area will likely account for at least 50,000 and probably closer to 70,000. Still some very, very solid growth.
 
Calgary area regularly sees half (or more) of provincial growth nowadays. So yeah still pretty solid numbers.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
I wonder how much the fourth floor at an empty building would be. Interesting...
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I can't speak for Nexen, but my last place of work, which was in probably a class B building, was looking to sublet a couple of floors to someone (for 3 years) for free as long as they paid the maintenance and utilities. The building owners were willing to lease other floors for $12.00/sq ft.

This was at the peak of high vacancy rates, and may have changed, but I doubt it would have changed much.
 
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