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CALGARY – Encouraging data points are forcing economists to consider upgrading their expectations for weak 2019 economic growth in Alberta as the province continues to recover from the effects of extreme heavy oil price weakness late last…

This year, the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) honoured projects from the cities of Hamilton, Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria, Saskatoon and Toronto with their Awards for Planning Excellence.Since 1983, CIP’s awards program has…

The Canadian Real Estate Association's (CREA) recent statistics, recorded by the Canadian MLS Systems, reveal a rise in national home sales by 1.9 per cent in May 2019. With monthly gains in March and April, activity in May reached the…

CALGARY – As the International Olympic Committee prepares to elect a host city for the 2026 Winter Games next week, Calgary sifts through the ashes of its defunct bid.The International Olympic Committee shortlisted Calgary with…

Calgary’s newly renamed School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape has officially opened an innovative research hub in downtown Calgary: the City Building Design Lab.The hub was made possible through a partnership between the…

After receiving proposals from firms across the globe, the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and the Calgary Stampede selected Stantec, Populous, and S2 Architecture as primary consultants for the $500-million BMO Centre expansion…

Sales of new condominium apartments in the Canadian markets totalled just over 48,500 units in 2018, dropping by 21 per cent from the almost 62,000 sales in 2017, according to Altus Group’s latest housing report.The GTA accounted for…

CALGARY – Colliers International says a rising trend of ``reverse migration'' is starting to bring office tenants back into Calgary's core, resulting in a decline in the downtown vacancy rate during the first three months of the year.…

CALGARY – Ten months after tenants started moving into the still mostly empty New Horizon Mall just north of Calgary, its first anchor tenant is being announced this week.That means the grand opening originally scheduled for October…

Luxury home sales fell in the two formerly hot housing markets of Vancouver and Toronto, as well as Calgary, in the first couple months of the new year, according to data released Wednesday by Sotheby's International Realty Canada.That…