Alberta

Such events will help add to hotel occupancy during the slower winter tourism season, when visitation to key attractions such as the famous dinosaurs and the Royal Tyrrell Museum decline.

Canadian cities – with the exception of corruption-ridden, nationalist-leaning Montreal – are leading a revival in commercial real estate in North America while most U.S. cities still need intensive care.

Edmonton's suburban office market, particularly Sherwood Park, are leading absorption levels in the Alberta capital while the downtown area is merely "maintaining", according to a report from Avison Young.

More than a new, $450 million arena complex could be headed for Edmonton's downtown. That's a key message in a research report prepared for the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton. The report, completed in late summer, chronicles roughly $4.

City and county officials in northwest Alberta were sounding upbeat in late summer as they worked toward an agreement that will help determine future growth in the Grande Prairie area.

A notorious Fort McMurray landmark is being scrubbed to make way for downtown redevelopment in the oilsands city.

Red Deer industrial tenants and owner-users gobbled up roughly 305,000 square feet of space in that city between July 2011 and July 2012, according to a recent report from a leading central Alberta appraisal firm. Soderquist Appraisals Ltd.

The City of Lacombe approved the purchase of roughly 34 acres of land in the Wolf Creek Industrial Park. The city will use some of the land for its infrastructure-services building and yard, and resell the rest for development.

While building-permit totals for Cold Lake were only $29.2 million in 2010, they hit over $61 million in 2011 and have been chugging along in 2012. Real estate sales have been strong, to say the least.

The greenhouse gas will then be piped 80 kilometres north and injected two kilometres into the ground, cutting CO2 emissions at the plant by 35 per cent - roughly the same amount produced annually by 175,000 passenger vehicles.