. beltline in the news

Keynote starts second tower
Calgary Herald
The heavy equipment is on site and construction of a second residential tower in a Beltline condo complex has started. Cana Management Ltd. is peeling back the roof of a three-storey podium holding the ...

GEC Architecture opens in Edmonton
Calgary Herald
... where it has opened an office in the beltline district near Grant MacEwan College and is already staffed by a team of nine professionals. They are led by new partner Mike Woodland and senior associate Peter Osborne, who was an employee in Calgary ...

Developers buckle up for Beltline
Calgary Herald
It seems like every week since August, I have been getting e-mails about Beltline condo projects resurfacing, or new projects being planned. The Beltline is Calgary's most populous community, ...

Multi-family pace to rise in 2012
Calgary Herald
Kevin Beingessner, president of Keynote Development Corp., says the company will move ahead with its second residential tower of Keynote in the Beltline area of Calgary. The decision is based on an increased level of consumer interest in the condo ...

Calgary company's online tool helps businesses avoid paper invoices, cheques
Calgary Herald

Underpass to create 'vibrant downtown'
Calgary Herald
... Village with the redeveloping Victoria Park and the rest of the Beltline area. There will be no more going around the CP railyards on Ninth Avenue to get from one area to the other. The underpass is a joint effort of Calgary Municipal Land Corp. ...

Homes for homeless vets
Calgary Sun
... thanks to a project spearheaded by the Calgary Homeless Foundation. On a day before Commonwealth nations mourn their war dead, the foundation's president Tim Richter announced the purchase of a 16-unit Beltline apartment building that will provide ...

Toronto developer eyes Calgary
Calgary Herald
Lamb said he thinks Calgary is probably the most affluent city in Canada and, furthermore, that the downtown region between the Beltline and the river is ripe for highdensity development. "You can feel the wealth in Calgary," he said. ...

Torture killer granted day parole
Calgary Herald
Vandenberg is serving a six-year manslaughter sentence for her role in the killing of Ruchael Friars at a Beltline rooming house in 2006. Three killers, including two other prostitutes, confined, tortured and killed Friars, 34, in the mistaken belief ...

Police seeking man over Beltline sexual assault
Calgary Herald
The woman told police she was walking along 1st Street SE about 6 am when a man approached her and offered her some alcohol that he said he had stashed elsewhere. When they arrived at a fenced area near a trash bin in the 200 block of 12th Avenue SE, ...

High-priced Calgary condo sells for over $2 million
Calgary Herald (blog)
Recently it was reported that Calgary's luxury home market has seen an elevated level of activity this year. Another sign of the renewed interest in the upper end market was the recent sale of the Penthouse at Union Square in the west Beltline area for ...

Around Town: Longtime Calgary insurer on the move
Calgary Herald
In 2008 Godfrey-Morrow purchased Cashman Insurance, which was also in the Beltline area at 12th Avenue and 12th Street SW McTavish was in senior management with Safeco in Ontario, which transferred him here in 1987. After working with Manulife, ...

Beltline group defends actions in Youth Singers struggle
MetroNews Canada
Youth Singers of Calgary were not paying enough to even cover the cost of heat and electricity when they chose to leave their current headquarters, charges the head of a group facing criticism for its handling of the now struggling glee club. ...

Final curtain looms for singers
MetroNews Canada
Marketing Manager Chris Jost said problems arose three years ago when their old headquarters in the Beltline was set to close to make way for an expansion of the Calgary Stampede grounds. To draw more value from the city for the headquarters, ...

New underpass connects East Village and Downtown to southern Beltline
660 News

Stabbing victim walks into Drum and Monkey bar for help
Calgary Herald
CALGARY - Police are questioning a man after a victim walked into a Beltline bar suffering stab wounds to the leg and the back. At around 7:30 pm Sunday, the man entered the Drum and Monkey looking ...

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Vacant home goes up in flames
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Abandoned Beltline home goes up in flames
Calgary Herald
Genevieve Renee snapped this photo Sunday night of a house fire across the street from her apartment in the Beltline. The home in the 500 block of 14th Avenue SW was apparently abandoned. ...

Firefighters had to change up tactics when a blaze on
Calgary’s Beltline got a little too hot to handle Sunday
night.

CALGARY — A boarded-up home in the Beltline went up in flames Sunday night. The home appeared abandoned, and no one was found inside it at the time of the fire, said Calgary Fire Department battalion chief Don Huska.

Calla to flower
Calgary Herald
The company is the developer behind Stella, Nova and Luna, three of Calgary's highrise success stories in the Beltline. Its latest project, Calla, is a 12-storey glass and steel residential tower that overlooks the historic Lougheed House and Beaulieu ...

You can always go
Calgary Herald
City council approved the Centre City Plan in 2007. It offers a strategic, longterm vision for the future, ensuring the downtown core is vibrant and thriving. Centre City includes the Beltline, Chinatown, Downtown, East Village, Eau Claire, ...

From D.C. to AB. in condo style
Calgary Herald
Michael Ward is the new Calgary vice-president of Grosvenor Americas, the company that is building the Drake condominium tower in the Beltline. Michael Ward is a 30-year-old, single professional who lives ...