General Construction Updates

[Mountain Man]

Want to say law office, but don't remember. They did a big renovation on it like 15 years ago, now it's left to rot again.

 

[potatopizzafan]

What a shame! Didn’t it used to be a computer repair shop or something?

i believe its owned by Bentall Kennedy

 

[Silence&Motion]

Centre street and 13 Ave is definitely the most "American" section of Calgary: nothing but abandoned buildings and parking lots encircled by barbed wire and chain link fence. Such a shame for the intersection of Calgary's "main street" and the 13 Ave Greenway.

 

[Sky of Blue]

And the trash! The ground around these derelict buildings and parking lots is covered in weed entangled discarded clothes, food packages, needle/saline tubes. It looks awful.

 

[darwink]

Anyone know what the deal is with this old house? I walk by it all the time and it's boarded up and used by homeless and meth heads to sleep and do drugs. Really a shame as it's quite a nice house.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0400...4g!2e0!5s20190501T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

What a shame! Didn’t it used to be a computer repair shop or something?

Want to say law office, but don't remember. They did a big renovation on it like 15 years ago, now it's left to rot again.

It was Voodoo Computers. They owned buildings on both side of Centre iirc, and made high end workstations and gaming computers. They were acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2006. From streetview, it doesn't look like the house has changed much since 2007.

A house on the east side of centre was removed/burned down between 2007 and 2009.

 

[DougB]

That was the HQ of Voodoo Computers. It made custom, high end PC's. HP ended up acquiring Voodoo and driving it into the ground. I had a Voodo tshirt and hat back around 1999.

 

[Mountain Man]

Centre street and 13 Ave is definitely the most "American" section of Calgary: nothing but abandoned buildings and parking lots encircled by barbed wire and chain link fence. Such a shame for the intersection of Calgary's "main street" and the 13 Ave Greenway.

Cash Corner probably dissuades most redevelopment there, lots of super sketchy people around there. I had one guy screaming at me about "where the bugs went in" one time, that was interesting, dude was clearly on meth.

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[Surrealplaces]

Flyover park update

https://twitter.com/mcmillan_ali

 

[1875]

 

[haltcatchfire]

Flyover park update

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https://twitter.com/mcmillan_ali

Someone get this crew over to Century Gardens.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I wonder if they're deepening the north channel of the Elbow for rafts?

 

[BrandedBlue]

I wonder if they're deepening the north channel of the Elbow for rafts?

They definitely dredged it out at least - I floated down that channel on the south side of Elbow Island a couple of times early this summer. It was almost like going through a long tunnel with the big trees overhanging.

 

[Disraeli]

They probably opened up the channel to help with brown trout spawning. They move up the Elbow from the Bow in the fall

 

[GoVertical]

More on that house I found on the City's inventory (glad its somewhat protected):
https://www.calgary.ca/pda/pd/herit...oric-calgary-resources.html?dhcResourceId=343