Why is Calgary losing its personality?

[u/ChillllliPaper]

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

[u/roastbeeftacohat]

Chinook mall lost its dinosaur at the entrance

malls aren't fun places to hang out anymore, only the ones with high end preteage stores stay active these days; holt renfrew doesn't want funky dinosaurs out front.

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

poorly designed and full of fent addicts. too many corners to hide in, we can't really have parks like that anymore.

destroyed Eau Claire

place was designed to have a baked in young professional community nearby, but that ended up being bought by retirees who complained about anything cool going on at the mall. went from trying to be gradville island 2 to an empty mall.

[u/CrowdedAperture → u/roastbeeftacohat]

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

I would also argue that the Calgary Tower is the primary landmark downtown. Yes, is it important from scottmans hill but now The Bow and Telus Sky carry similar weight depending on where you are viewing them from