The Super mall???

[Maritime Q-Scout]

a new rink, should be like a new major shopping centre (in my opinion) and be downtown.

There's a reason why Edmonton want a new rink downtown, why Winnipeg just built downtown, why Kansas City is trying to use their new rink as an anchor downtown. It helps spawn growth.

I'd be sad to see a new rink in Calgary be build outside of the downtown area, where are you going to have the Red Mile, on some suburb road!?

[Reggie Dunlop]

Hate to see a GOOD Mall Thread sink to the bottom of the page....

[Julio]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

On a related note, if there is a horse-racing facility outside the city, what happens to the track at the Stampede? I don't think (although I don't know) that it gets much use as is. If the horse races move out there, is the grandstand and the track a big whack of real estate that only gets used 10 days a year?

The track @ Stampede Park is currently used about 8 months of the year between the two horseracing meets, Stampede, and various horsetraining stuff that goes on there.
That's scheduled to end after Stampede this year, with the fall standardbred meet that is usually in Calgary in Grand Prairie this year. Starting in the spring horseracing in Calgary is scheduled to be @ the new track in Balzac. However, going from dirt to a track in 9 months is a wee bit of a longshot. There are rumours in the horseracing community that the spring meet in 2008 might go back to Stampede Park, but that might be tough, because Stampede is getting rid of a bunch of the barns in the backstretch of the racetrack by the river in order to build a new Agriculture building in the next few years, replacing the one just south of the Saddledome. Once that is up, the ag events @ Stampede would shift down to the south end of the park, and the infield area would be used for pens for various events, and even as a bit of an RV park so that the ag users won't be in the parking lot just past the Ag building, freeing up some parking for Flames games.

As for the whole 'East Balzac Mall' concept that is attached to the racetrack concept, how could you not secure water rights before starting up such a project? I'm not a big shopping/mall person myself, but it seems to me the 'outlet mall' idea has been tried in the NE to a small degree already (Deerfoot mall) with limited success.

[skins]

construction has already started on this project and they still have no viable solution for how they'll get enough water there to service the place.

I'm just finalizing the design of a large underground water resevoir for the mall and I'm convinced it will be a ruin found 500 years from now. they'll have no idea why it was there (since there was no water).

besides the horse track, another big draw to this mall is that they will have super high end stores like Gucci, Prada, etc. at least that's the rumour.

[Hack&Lube]

Personally, I think they should bulldoze the decrepid and mostly rusting and wasting (for most of the year) Stampede grounds and replace it with some kind of busy social center with modern buildings and make it a large entertainment complex, the kind this city desperately needs. It's close to downtown and it's central with good C-Train access. It'll revitalize one of the nastiest neighbourhoods in the city and give people a place to go besides downtown and 17th avenue.

Places like the Dallas Stars rink is surrounded by an entertainment hub, etc. GM Place is in downtown Vancouver by the waterfront with nice places all around. The Saddledome is in the middle of nowhere. Before a game all you can do is hang around on the back of a truck in the parking lot. After a game, everybody just hurries to the trains to get the hell out of there.

[V]

Originally Posted by sadora

I don't know. But don't we another hospital instead of another mall?

We're getting a new hospital in the south. Eventually.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Personally, I think they should bulldoze the decrepid and mostly rusting and wasting (for most of the year) Stampede grounds and replace it with some kind of busy social center with modern buildings and make it a large entertainment complex, the kind this city desperately needs. It's close to downtown and it's central with good C-Train access. It'll revitalize one of the nastiest neighbourhoods in the city and give people a place to go besides downtown and 17th avenue.

Did you read the link I provided?

[Flames09]

Bigger isn't always better sure I would love too see Edmonton put to shame and take the one thing they have away from them but I wouldn't mind a smaller mall I would just like variety.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by feartheflames

I keep hearing constant rumors of a "super mall " being built in calgary, it is supposedly supposed to put West Ed to shame...is this just a rumor or is there anything to back this up???

There will be a super mall, but it won't be as big as west ed. There will be an entertainment side to it, they want to put the new horse tracks there.

We don't need bigger than West Ed. That screwed their city up anyway.

But it will be bigger than any other mall in Calgary thus far. Though a lot of it will be that cookie cutter huge theatre type feel.

And yeah, between Calgary and Balzac/Airdrie.

[skins]

also, it's all one floor, which is lame.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by V

We're getting a new hospital in the south. Eventually.

It will open in 2011, cost ~$1.11B for initial phase, 260 beds to start. Expand to 432 beds in 2014. Expand to 642 beds in 2017-18.

Unfortunately it will be the smallest Calgary hospital until its 2017-18 expansion.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/...4/4127245.html

[matt0390]

haha you guys keep talking of the mall but i'm working there lol

[BuzzardsWife]

I am a certified shopping addict. 8 hours in a mall is a good day for me. But honestly, I do not think Calgary needs another mall. What Calgary does need is just a few higher end stores like Coach and Gucci, but I think they are going to build those in a luxury mini mall down at Heritage Point. I am not saying I will shop at those stores, but there is a huge market here for the really high end stores here and we just do not have them, except for Holt Renfrew. I highly doubt I will make a trip to Balzac except to check it out in the beginning.

[Jayems]

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=57974

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=55535