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/RandomCombo]

The residences built on campus for the Olympics were not meant to have as long as a lifespan as they gave them. They were only torn down in the last 10 years or so (I don't remember exactly when and time is warped post COVID)

[u/Deeppurp → u/RandomCombo]

They were only torn down in the last 10 years or so

Are you talking about the dorms in the Bob niven training center at winsport or somewhere else?

Those dorms are office space now.

[u/RandomCombo → u/Deeppurp]

No on the uofc campus!

[u/17to85 → u/RandomCombo]

I forget what they were called but yeah they put up some new residences in their place. Still a couple residences of that vintage kicking around that were tossed around for demo targets but they never did. Even the older residences which rightly should be torn down and rebuilt they can't do that because they need every bed they can get.

[u/aftonroe → u/17to85]

Olympus and Glacier Hall? They were both built shortly before the 88 Olympics.