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Construction to begin to turn a Calgary tower into affordable housing
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Downtown Calgary office tower being converted into affordable housing
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For almost two decades, a compact office building on 7th Avenue S.W. was home to Dome Petroleum, as the famed Calgary company led by Smilinâ Jack Gallagher searched for oil and gas across Western Canada and the Arctic.
Those days are long gone.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Varcoe: From Dome Petroleum HQ to affordable housing â a cool transformation for downtown Calgary Back to video
Today, the 10-storey tower is a shell of a structure, with floor upon floor of unused offices. Paint is peeling in the stairwells. The street-level coffee shop is shuttered, with mugs, chairs and tables still sitting in place, waiting for people to return.
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After a year of living with COVID-19, Postmedia is taking an in-depth look at the significant social, institutional and economic issues the pandemic has brought to light in Canada and more importantly, how we can finally begin to solve them. You can find our complete coverage here.
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When Jay Westman decided to embark on a landmark development that would transform how Canadians view their options for aging, people told him it couldn’t be done.
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