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CALGARY SET TO DOUBLE CANCER TREATMENT CAPACITY Cancer touches everyone, it’s said, and some far more deeply than others. The statistics reveal that almost half of all Canadians will be diagnosed with some form of the disease in their lifetimes. So it’s great news when a city can say that’s its treatment capacity is doubling. That’s the word in Calgary, with construction of the new Calgary Cancer Centre now underway.
The $1.4-billion health-care facility at the site of the Foothills Medical Centre in the northwest will include 100 patient examination rooms, 160 inpatient beds, more than 100 chemotherapy chairs, and 15 radiation vaults. By the time it opens in 2023, the centre will have created 1,500 new jobs for Calgarians. Excavation, shoring, and piling work will continue
into the spring of 2018, followed by construction of the building’s foundation and parkade.
CANCER TREATMENT’S FUTURE
Visitors to the site of the Calgary Cancer Centre will see something like this — in 2023.
-artist’s rendering courtesy Alberta Infrastructure
AMAZON CHOOSES ALBERTA ONCE — BUT WILL THEY CHOOSE IT AGAIN? Alberta hasn’t landed Amazon’s much-buzzed-about, second North American headquarters. Yet. However, there’s this news to consider: the mega-retailer of just about everything has chosen a quaint little hamlet near Calgary for its seventh Canadian facility. Balzac, which is not far from Calgary In-
Of course, the warehouse is small beans compared to the e-commerce superstar’s second North American home base. Edmonton and Calgary are among 54 cities bidding for that opportunity. Amazon says it plans to invest about $5 billion and hire 50,000 employees for its new base, making it even larger than its massive one in Seattle, which employs 40,000 people across 33 buildings.
Will proximity to a nice air- port and a new distribution warehouse have anything to do with that decision? Watch
ternational Airport, and therefore Airdrie and Calgary, will be home to a 600,000-square- foot distribution warehouse. The new facility will create about 750 full-time jobs, which is good news for a region that lost thousands of jobs to low oil prices.
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-photo by iStock.com/jahcottontail143
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