Alberta

Medicine Hat's dream of a regional event centre may not yet be realized, but the southeast Alberta city now has an agreement in place for locating an event centre/arena in Box Springs Business Park (BSBP) on the north side of the city.

Office space in downtown Calgary will be even harder to find in 2013 and early 2014, predicts Colliers International.

Irrigation The local irrigation belt, including land north of the Oldman River, offers some of the richest agricultural land in Canada.

Tax breaks eyed City council is also considering the merits of certain incentives designed to draw more businesses to the city.

Office properties offered the best returns for commercial real estate investors last year - and Edmonton proved to be the hottest investment market in Canada.

High commodity and livestock prices are pushing the demand for prime agriculture land in Southern Alberta, and fueling interest in investments both by producers and non-farmers alike. "We've never seen anything like this.

There is now more office construction underway in the suburbs of Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver than there is in the downtowns and - with the exception of a single Calgary tower - more space is being leased in the 'burbs than in the core of all thre

Alberta's best-known former coal-mining municipality is again flirting with the mining industry, not to mention the hope that it could someday restart coal production around Crowsnest Pass. Bruce Decoux, mayor of Crowsnest Pass just east of the B.C.

Property values may still be levelling off in some major Canadian cities, but Calgary appears to have weathered the storm and bounced back.

The City of Leduc is sounding positive it will be annexing lands in Leduc County sooner rather than later.