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Aug. 09, 2012 | CREBNow

The Barron Building

In the midst of Historic Calgary Week (July 27 – Aug. 6) , one of the city's most influential buildings as far as the oil industry, and one of the most memorable for theatregoers, announced it is shutting its doors for good.

"The Uptown has made the business decision to cease operations of the Uptown Stage and Screen and Marquee Room and is vacating the Barron Building," said The Uptown Stage and Screen on their Facebook page Aug. 1.
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Aug. 09, 2012 | CREBNow

Urban Green Thumbs

While community gardens may seem a rather new trend in the scope of things, they've actually been around Calgary for almost 100 years.

Years ago the City Planning Commission came up with an initiative called the Calgary Vacant Lots Garden Club in 1914. According to a history prepared by Carole Stokes, an archivist with the City of Calgary Archives, the club's executive recognized the cultivation of Calgary's vacant lots would benefit the city's poorer families who could grow and harvest their own produce at a lesser cost.
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Aug. 09, 2012 | CREBNow

Alberta the Place to Be

Alberta has been a veritable hot spot of new residents lately with its strong economy and low unemployment rate.

"There's a reason why Calgary's CTrain has been feeling more congested lately; people have been flocking to Alberta," said ATB Financial economist Will Van't Veld.
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Aug. 09, 2012 | CREBNow

Avenue Magazine Dubs Varsity Best Neighbourhood in Calgary

Calgary's Avenue Magazine recently released its third compilation of Calgary's Best Neighbourhoods with the northwest community of Varsity taking the number one spot.

The magazine surveys its readers, asking them to share what is most important in a neighbourhood that makes it's residents want to remain living there.
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Aug. 09, 2012 | Cody Stuart

Bigger, Better, Sooner

When it comes to purchasing a first home, buyers have regrets – mostly that they took so long to do it.

In that sense, Bryan Backman- Beharry is your typical homebuyer. The 32-year-old Calgarian recently purchased his first home, a three-bedroom bungalow in the southwest community of Killarney, after renting a condominium in the downtown core.
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Aug. 09, 2012 | Cody Stuart

Still Going Strong

Despite mounting evidence to suggest a slowing market, vacancy in Calgary's downtown office sector continues to fall. Marking the eleventh consecutive quarter of positive absorption and overall decreases in vacancy rates, a new report from Collier's International shows that nearly 260,000 sq. ft. of office space was leased in second quarter of 2012.

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Commercial Class Act

Calgary's commercial market is expected to continue at its brisk pace through 2012 according to a special report by TD Economics.

Commercial vacancy rates in the city currently sit at about 7.5 per cent, a number that is forecast to decrease to seven per cent in 2012. The current vacancy rate is a significant drop from 2010's posted 11.8 per cent vacancy. Industrial vacancy rates are even lower with a forecasted three per cent vacancy in 2012 compared to 3.1 in 2011.

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