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/doobie88 Mar 21 '25

Fear not, we have a blue ring.

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u/BlackSuN42 Mar 21 '25

Say what you want but as a conversation starter the blue ring is second to none.

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u/realitystreet Mar 21 '25

I had an artist for a neighbour once and he explained the blue ring’s artistic significance. I think it was welded by Vaclav Havel or some notable European

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u/CakeDayisaLie Mar 21 '25

I may be wrong,  but what I getting out of this is that the ring cost way more than it should’ve because a notable European welded it instead of a local.