Alberta

Industrial Industrial land prices - $120,000 to $160,000 per acre for partly serviced, $265,000 to $285,000 per acre for fully serviced - have bottomed out, realtors suggest, and while they may not surge forward significantly in 2011, there's now dem

An ongoing review of Banff's land-use bylaw has come with a controversial recommendation from its review team: a "merit-based" system to dispense remaining commercial development allotments. There is also an emphasis on speed.

Alberta's largest city won't have vastly relaxed rules for secondary suites. Calgary city council voted in March only to study the issue more and do more to accommodate new suites in neighbourhoods where they are already permitted.

Building permit numbers are looking a lot healthier these days in Alberta's Rocky Mountain paradise, but they're a little on the deceiving side. The Town of Canmore approved building permits for over $32.

Calgary residential real estate prices aren't growing with the resurgent economy in 2011, according to the latest numbers from the Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB).

Edmonton's light-rail transit (LRT) enjoyed a big boost in early April from the provincial government, which announced the first allocation of its Green Transit Incentives Program (GreenTRIP) cash.

And why wouldn't it? Situated at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Western North America's primary north-south trade corridor (Alberta Highway 2/U.S.

Work had barely started on the $440 million Northwest Transmission Line that is to run 355 km. north from Terrace before a protest by a small native band threatened to delay the long-waited project.

Calgary's East Village redevelopment project has taken another big step forward with the announcement of another mega-deal for the downtown neighbourhood.

Alberta municipalities feeling the financial pinch and looking enviously at their neighbours are keeping an eye on what's happening in part of northeast Alberta.