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ANOTHER PIECE OF THE RING BEGINS TAKING SHAPE IN CALGARY Construction is underway on the Southwest Calgary Ring Road (SWCRR) , running between Highway 8 (near Elbow Springs Golf Course) and Macleod Trail SE. The $2.2-billion project will include 31 kilometres of six- and eight-lane divided highways, 14 interchanges, one road flyover, one railway crossing, 47 bridges, one culvert set, one tunnel, and three river crossings. Expected to open to traffic in 2021, SWCRR is being designed and constructed by a joint venture partnership that includes two APEGA Permit Holders, Graham Con- struction and Ledcor. A 10-kilometre stretch of the road between Fish Creek and Glenmore Trail will be named Tsuut’ina Trail, recognizing that it’s on former Tsuut’ina Nation land. The Government of Canada will contribute more than $350 million to the project, with the Province of Alberta adding the balance. The project represents the beginning of one of the two remaining sections in the Calgary Ring Road project.
COMPLETING THE RING This map shows what’s done and what’s left to come on the Calgary Ring Road. -map courtesy Alberta Transportation
PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON HARDISTY-SUPERIOR LINE 3 Enbridge, an APEGA Permit Holder, has broken ground on its multi-billion-dollar Line 3 , which involves replacing an aging, 1,660-kilometre pipeline that runs from Hardisty in southwestern Alberta to the state of Wisconsin, via Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The first phase of the project — the 405-km stretch of pipeline running across Alberta and Saskatchewan — is expected to continue until the spring or summer of 2018 and employ as many as 1,600 workers. The pipeline is expected to come online by the second half of 2019 and transport 375,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude oil to Superior, Wis. The company estimates the cost of the Canadian section at $5.3 billion and the American section at and US $2.9 billion.
MEDICINE HAT IS BECOMING A HOTEL HOT SPOT
Canalta Hotels has enough of a presence in Medicine Hat that it owns naming rights for the arena complex — officially named Canalta Centre. So far there’s no hotel or motor inn, however, that bears the name of the Drumheller chain. Interestingly, that’s not going to change with Canalta’s construction of a six-storey hotel and retail complex in Medicine Hat’s south end, now underway. The project, slated for completion at the end of 2018, will include a 120-room hotel, two standalone restaurants, a four-bay commercial strip, and a retail plaza. The brand for the hotel will be Hilton, the company says, complementing a Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton that it already manages in the city. It sounds like more accommodations for travellers lie ahead for Medicine Hat. According to the Medicine Hat News , two other hotel developers are planning 100-room-plus hotels.
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