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Underpass to link East Village with Calgary Stampede
Tuesday marks a very big day in the development of the east end of Calgary’s downtown. A whole bunch of city celebrities will be on hand for the grand opening of the 4th Street S.E. underpass which...
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Big day coming for Calgary’s East Village
Another chapter in the East Village development story will unfold this week. The area, just east of Calgary’s downtown core, is starting to gain momentum. And Friday morning will signal the grand...
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Another phase of East Village’s RiverWalk opens
Calgarians who have come to enjoy their recreational bike rides and strolls along RiverWalk, have more to celebrate as Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has announced the completion and opening of...
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Third Street SE, East Village: the next Crane St.
There are, right now, seven cranes putting up condo towers and the National Music Centre in East Village. I can see this out my Herald City Hall bureau office window. More cranes will come as East...
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A new future finally nears for St. Louis Hotel
It is the most storied watering hole of 20th century Calgary, a place where politicians and oil executives mingled with regular working folk and people lined up on Fridays to hear a master orator stage...
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Planned highrise will bring 221 rental units to East Village
A 28-storey, 221-unit residential rental highrise is being planned for Calgary’s East Village — part of new development plans announced Tuesday by Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, which oversees the...
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Calgary Municipal Land Corporation looks to broaden its scope
Having secured $2.5 billion in investment for development of the East Village since 2006, the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation wants to expand to other areas of the city. Michael Brown, CMLC...
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East Village to mark the arrival of its first residents
This is the start of a new and exciting chapter in Calgary’s East Village. In 2015, East Village will welcome in hundreds of new residents and see new businesses moving in, buildings opening up, and...
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Plans for historic St. Louis Hotel in Calgary's East Village include...
The historic St. Louis Hotel will be reborn as a mixed-use commercial venture to include offices and a restaurant and bar under a development plan filed Thursday by the Calgary Municipal Land...
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Bloom artwork announced for St. Patrick's Island
A sculpture nearly seven stories high will be placed on St. Patrick’s Island this summer, the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation announced on Tuesday. The piece, titled Bloom and created by...
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John Gilchrist: Simmons Building comes to life thanks to a diverse group of...
“This is the project we’ve been working for our entire lives,” says John Jackson, one of the driving forces behind the rebirth of the Simmons Building. This weekend the century-old, two-storey brick...
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Condo developer plans third project, 'all in' on East Village
Vancouver-based Embassy BOSA has acquired more land in Calgary’s East Village for future condo development. The company, already building condo projects on two sites in the neighbourhood, purchased the...
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Take a tour of the new St. Patrick's Island
There’s a new beach, picnicking plaza and steep tobogganing hill in the middle of the Bow River. Construction crews put the finishing touches on St. Patrick’s Island on Wednesday afternoon, in...
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New public art piece on St. Patrick’s Island called 'ecologically insensitive'
A Calgary stargazer is urging the city to dim the lights of a new public art piece, Bloom, on St. Patrick’s Island, raising concerns the brightness could disturb the area’s wildlife and cause an...
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Cecil Hotel will be torn down, says owner
The notorious Cecil Hotel, shuttered since city council ordered its closure in 2008, will face the wrecking ball this fall after a series of structural assessments determined the century-old building...
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Creosote contamination at arena site to be studied
As Calgarians await more details of a massive Flames arena project proposed for land on the western edge of downtown, a city-owned agency is now looking to hire a consultant to study the scope of...
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Take a Bow Opera in the Village
Calgary Opera’s Opera in the Village has experienced it all. From floods and rain, to hail and glacial temperatures, the must-attend annual festival has historically gone head to head with Mother...
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Stakeholder summit next week to determine if CalgaryNEXT 'is going to work'
Calgary Flames executives will join a meeting next week with stakeholders in tourism, civic affairs and amateur sport to discuss the viability of the CalgaryNEXT proposal. In a meeting with the...
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Sales launched for unique N3 condo project in East Village
Sales are launching today for one of the most unique residential condo projects Calgary has ever seen. The N3 development in East Village is designed with Generation Y in mind with parking for bicycles...
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New Central Library gets $1 million donation from Mike and Linda Shaikh
Mike Shaikh has always lived by three words of wisdom that his father imparted to him long ago: learn, earn and return. On Saturday, Shaikh and his wife, Linda, demonstrated that spirit of giving with...
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