Terrible decision. No LRT access so you need either a car or bus. Way to alienate all employees who live in the North or core. I think you need to be where the action is and where your competitors are which is downtown. Downtown where they have LRT access and everything is walkable for meetings, lunches etc. They make enough coin and should pony up like Encana/Cenovus did for a new tower if they are tight on space. Being isolated is terrible for business and employees.
Also a terrible direction for Calgary. For years Calgary has been moving towards the model of Houston and Dallas. Terrible cities with sprawling suburbs, bad traffic and a fat population due to being car dependent. The downtowns of Houston and Dallas/Forth Worth are dead especially for such large of cities. I've been to both the Exxon campus in Irving, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth suburb) and the BP campus in Katy, TX (Houston suburb). Suburban working jails with nothing around them.
It seemed like Calgary was gradually moving away with a focus on downtown but this puts a bump into it. Calgary needs to be more like New York and Chicago. Great cities with good cores, tons to do and not car dependent.
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