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Who says you can’t beat city hall?
The Dairy Queen at Centre Street and 18th Avenue N.E. was approved for redevelopment Wednesday by Calgary’s Subdivision and Development Appeal Board (SDAB).
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“We’re just so thankful for this decision,” said John Shim, the son of the franchisees of the DQ restaurant that was destroyed by fire on Oct. 8, 2019 sending all of his parents’ savings and dreams up in smoke.
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The outpouring of care and concern for the hard-working Shim family is proof positive that the warmth of the people of this city is not reflected by the icy bureaucracy at Calgary City Hall.
Many hundreds of emails flooded my inbox with countless people seeking some way to help John and Wendy Shim, the franchisees of a Dairy Queen that burned down on Oct. 8, 2019.
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After reading about the family’s plight in my Postmedia column, Jonathan Denis, a former attorney general and justice minister for Alberta, has offered his legal expertise for free to the hard-working Korean immigrant family who lost everything when their restaurant on Centre Street, just two blocks north of 16th Avenue, burned to the ground following an electrical fire some 18 months ago.
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It’s not very often that I cry while listening to a City of Calgary meeting.
But on Thursday, I filled several tissues weeping over the story of the Shim family and what’s happened to them since their Dairy Queen restaurant burned down on Oct. 8, 2019.
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Ordinarily, such development permits to essentially build the same development on the same piece of land following a fire would go through without a hitch.
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