Roaring Flames
Senior Member
"Eau Claire Market isn't needed and a nobody goes there!"
Eau Claire Market gets demolished
Eau Claire Market gets demolished
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thecivilengineer
New Member
But that place was old and theatre was worse. Also the location was not centralized.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Retail isn't always the answer, something to do in some place interesting is probably the most important part. I did see if putting in a skating rink on the west end of downtown at River Hall (Olympic Plaza's skating rink is no more. Or at least until the plaza is redone, if it even includes rink...)
DougB
Senior Member
Eau Claire Market did far better before the growth in the surrounding residential population. It failed for many reasons.
Dkeirle
New Member
I remember when Eau Claire market first opened the place was bumping for a while. You could go to any of the restaurants after work and they were busy, the market and mall itself was busy all through the day, especially at lunch and after work. I don’t know what happened to them all but something sure fucked it up.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Could it have been because of the revitalization of the Core mall? Drawing a bunch of patrons away to a more central location...?
darwink
Senior Member
No, it was in decline before that. I think it could have done well with more curation and patient capital (lower rents). The Imax theatre generated constant foot traffic and should have been subsidized as an anchor, instead it left when Chinook was renovated. Having visited Winnipeg's Forks Market in 2005, 2011, and 2018, and seeing it go from sad to destination over that time (run by Canada Lands or some other federal entity I think?), I am confident that the city didn't really know what it was doing when developing and running the project in partnership, and never gave the market the mandate, and funding to be what it needed to be.
shermanator
New Member
Marda Loop Main Streets update. Telephone poles on 34th Ave are gone. 33rd and 34th are back to two way streets. Looks like the majority of the work on 33rd is done as well as the South portion of 34th.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
You just know that one pole is staying because it provides power to a street light... oh man, all that work and there's still a pole of shame.
potatopizzafan
Active Member
Im a bit confused about 34th ave. I thought there was supposed to be a bike lane? It seems like they just redid the sidewalk?
BrandedBlue
New Member
They are building a multi-use pathway on the south side. I took a few photos before the snow.
adamyyc
Active Member
What's hilarious about that bump out in the photos above is that it was done to avoid cutting down two mature trees. Then they determined that the trees had to be cut down because of poor health (why they didn't determine that before detailed design, I'll never understand). So now we have this weird deviation in the pathway, and lost 2-3 on-street parking spots to save trees that they cut down anyways. Ideally, the City redoes this section next summer to straighten things up, but I doubt it.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Typical City of Calgary decision making...
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
That one little guy is still in the way. But you're right, why keep that?
darwink
Senior Member
When plans with a high level of detail go to council, the institutional culture, enforced by council calling out admin when plans aren't followed, is that changes require going back to council. So even if things don't make sense anymore, unless the change is needed, or not making the change will result in failure, the change is not made.