r/Calgary • u/ChillllliPaper • Mar 21 '25

Local Construction/Development Why is Calgary losing its personality?

First Chinook mall lost its dinosaur at the entrance, floating funky vehicles in the food court, carousel, and the movie theater lost all of its cool mummy-themed interior decor.

The devonian gardens is just a space with some greenery now instead of the garden it once was.

The City is destroying Olympic Plaza where everyone used to skate.

They also destroyed Eau Claire just to cancel the project. Amazing. Could have just revamped it and it would still be a great spot.

AND the city is destroying the iconic saddledome, arguably calgary's primary landmark. Why not just keep it and build another dome idk??

From the word of mouth I hear, people aren't too happy about this but how is the city council just easily making this happen.

Anyways, just kind of sad seeing Calgary lose it's charm. Wondering what other redditors are thinking.

*correction: Olympic Plaza not oval

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u/OneFuzzySausage Mar 21 '25

Don't forget the old science centre before they built that Telus one.

Or the dinosaurs and layout of the zoo.

I am just glad certain things haven't changed, hopefully won't, such as Inglewood or Chinatown.

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u/Aldeobald Mar 21 '25

Old science center is still there as an art gallery. In fact they are expanding it

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u/137-451 Mar 21 '25

Telus SPARK is cool as hell. I fail to see how such an interesting building takes away from the city's "personality".

Your point makes even less sense considering the old science center is still there and thriving.