Fuel Station Renovations

Back with another blog post on construction and it is not residential that I am talking about today. It has to do with commercial since from what I have been seeing some construction has been going on with this fuel station across from where I work. It is adding some fast food restaurant and some other features that I do not know about. Another words this station is going to be the one where most customers will fuel up going somewhere out west or just taking a break from their shopping to fuel up their cars. It will probably either be bigger or the same size.

But it is going to have some fast food restaurant in there which is going to require a lot of work on the contractors part. So I guess this closure will be taking longer than usual meaning that we are going to be really busy the next few days or weeks. This means as well that the customers who use to go there will be coming to us or the Mobil fuel station in the same shopping center. The station use to have all their pumps open but now that they have really gotten to work on the station they will close everything and work will be done on them.

Now I only wished that I had pictures in here to show you readers what they are doing or have done but due to some privacy issues I will hold off on them and just talk about the job. However I will get pictures if I am able to do it.

Lakeview Village

Back here once more with another quick and short post before heading out the door for some shopping. It has to do with Lakeview and especially Lakeview Village where most houses are being torn down and rebuilt from the ground up while others are being renovated from the inside out which has really changed that whole estate area. The non estate area of Lakeview is also going through some changes as well with the neighborhood having houses that are being rebuilt and also renovated from the ground up which has made Lakeview somewhat pricey with the housed being renovated and sold.

But Lakeview Village is going through some changes that I have never seen before. The people in there or are in the process of moving there will see the changes or have seen the changes after moving there. I remember it to be an expensive area where most of my friends lived until moving away from that area to go to school and maybe start jobs. I do ride my bike there and all I see there are houses getting rebuilt and renovated from the ground up by customers who probably have a whole lot of money to work with. So I am trying to figure out how I can get into their position.

But this is easier said than done because I do not have the funds right now to do that since I do not have much money as these men and women and by the time I do get the money or am able to be in a position as they are I will be very old. But most of this area still needs some sort of development even though they do have a whole lot of houses that are already there or in place. Lakeview Village I think will be around right until the time I get old and leave this Earth. So I will just say that I will never be able to buy any properties there even though the houses there are nicely done.

Construction Journal

This will be a quick post that I am making since I will be working once more. So here I am here talking about what has been going on in the world of construction in Calgary especially in the Currie Barracks area. So there is a lot of that going on within the city and from what I have seen there is a lot of digging going on due to either tearing down some old buildings or just a parking lot which had some cars parked. As I have seen the whole parking lot has been dug up and before long I will end up seeing the whole parking lot turned into some underground parking due to some apartment buildings.

Also, I will have to say that by the time that all of these buildings around my area get built or finished I will probably be either dead or very old since this whole construction has been going on since I was younger from as far as I can remember. I will probably be gone for good or be very old and sick by the time this construction is finished. Hopefully I am around to see it but it is unlikely because the workers still have a lot to do with very little time since the company in charge of the project are probably dealing with delays, broken promises from the customers due to a lack of money they have.

Grey Eagle Casino Renovations

Back here and I am just going to lay a picture of a casino going through renovations since from a while ago when I put a post of Grey Eagle Casino going through some renovations I was going to just post a picture and maybe a video of it. Now I do not have the video that I took but I have a picture of it right now and I was thinking about fixing up the picture but it looks like it is pretty good enough to post in here. I will touch the picture up and then post it on this blog. So here it is I will just post the picture on here and I will be back with some more news coming from the local construction industry.

Construction Blog Entry

Just giving out this short post on today’s construction work that I have been watching and I must say that it is going to cause problems on the road. There is some construction going on within my neighborhood and I have to say that some of the roads on there are being paved and redone once more since from what I have been seeing these roads do need some repairs and signs have been put up telling drivers to either slow down and change their plans or just sort of just accept the small patches that have been done on the roads and streets.

Well I am hoping to find any free paths or alternative routes to get to work since that lane that I am going in will be blocked and I will be going somewhere else which will take me longer to get to work and as a result I will be late. So I am hoping that I find some alternative to get to work because there is a lot of construction that is taking place. This will make the city rich along with most of these construction companies and maybe civil engineers since the roads are not only a part of the construction industry but also a part of infrastructure that we use on a daily basis.

Construction Journal

Just managed to ride my bike to some houses that I was looking at which are being built in Lakeview and I have to say that more construction is going on in that community and of course the whole city. But what I wanted to talk about is the video that I saw on YouTube yesterday while I was watching it. There is a lot of construction going on not just in Calgary but in Edmonton as well and I have to say that they are going through a lot of stress and problems too but I would have to say that theirs are smaller than ours here since their downtown is upper.

While Calgary’s here is lower where you have to drive down in order to reach our downtown area while Edmonton’s is upper. So I would say that these two cities are different from on another with Edmonton being built differently due to some maybe British or European influence while Calgary is built by overall American influence because if you look at cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and in some cases Houston you would have to practically drive down some roads to get to downtown in these cities but again I could be in error.

Hopefully Edmonton can finish their construction so they can have some or most of their businesses run normally because most businesses in Calgary have the same problems regarding a lack of foot traffic due to construction taking place. But both cities I would say will be sending these bills to the taxpayers. Another words, taxpayers in both cities will be footing the bills since these construction projects are not cheap at all and like anything else when it comes to spending, construction jobs do require money or capital to operate.

Construction Journal

I was hoping to go outside today to check out some of the different construction sites around the city but apparently I am not going to be able to do that due to the weather being cold and wet since it is going to rain today all day. But I will say that I still have a picture to put up on this site because I stopped by the casino yesterday for a birthday celebration and the casino is still going through renovations and not a whole lot has changed regarding construction and the work being done. So in the future I will be putting pictures on here. I have yet to edit them first.

With that said I will just go on and say that a lot of construction is still going on in my area since they are still building a lot of homes especially this one which I will talk about. I thought that the house was going to have a triple car garage but I guess their plans turned out to be foul because the house turned out to be bigger than expected with this notion of not being able to fit in this extra garage in since there isn’t any room to build this triple garage. So I guess the builders underestimated how much space they needed to build this house but we will see since it is not finished.

Anyway I will finish this post by saying that there is a lot of construction going on in this city and it is not going to be completed for sometime. It also tells me that this city has a lot of money rolling around and Calgary is going to grow some more since it has already filled up most spaces where there are small towns.

Upcoming Post On Renovations/Construction Journal

Back here with another post on construction on renovations but it is not going to be a drawing. It is going to be on a renovation project that I managed to take pictures of but I am not able to post them here today since I have to edit them. So I will just talk about some things that I have been thinking about in construction. Another words it has to do with some construction stuff that I have been observing. I have been seeing for some time now. So I will take some time to talk about this renovation job and then talk about some construction stuff I have been observing.

With that said I will talk about this casino that is going through some renovations in which I was surprised with since they changed the position of the front door that has been in place for a couple of years now since the casino has been built. They put the door on the right side of the building because I am thinking that they might build some sort of food court which is rumored to go there but from what I have heard they may put something different since the plans for the food court has been cancelled. But this casino I think will probably be a bit bigger with more room than ever.

Then I will talk about another or different construction project that is going on. The project will be about some houses in North Glenmore Park that are being built in some neighborhood. There is one house that is being built near a friend’s house which will be finished this year but I have to feel bad for my friend since she has to move from the house that she is staying in because she doesn’t actually own that house. She was just renting it out from some landlord or house owner who decided to buy the house and tear it down in order to build a new one in its place.

So that tells me that North Glenmore Park is changing in a big and fast way due to the heavy construction that is taking place right now. I do not know how the people living there would have to move away from that place or area.

Deerfoot Trail Four Lane Road

Okay I thought that I would get this off before watching TV and I haven’t been able to write any news about the construction industry in Calgary but I will just write about my observations that I saw. I drove on one of the projects that are going on. Deerfoot Trail will have about four lanes for motorists to use to change lanes and drive through to where they are going. Now I wanted to take pictures to put on this blog but it was impossible for me to do because I was driving and my phone was being charged inside my car just waiting for it to get to a high percentage.

With that said I will just get this message or article out on the road. It looks like Deerfoot Trail will be making it like some sort of freeway that you sort of go on just to catch either a C-Train or Bus. Also I know is that it will cost taxpayers a whole lot of money once it gets built or finished being built but I think that Calgary has a whole lot of money reserved while other cities like Edmonton do not have a whole lot of money to spend on restructuring its roads, bridges and sidewalks that are probably cracked with foundations that are either shaky or broken.

Werklund Center Construction Project

Back here once more and I am going to take some time to talk about some project that I wrote about in a previous entry on this blog in which I managed to get a picture of. I will be putting more pictures on here if I do get them but for now I will just provide a teaser or one picture that I managed to take while I was on a bike ride of this center that is being built over the Olympic Plaza that I thought was going to be around for sometime but I guess that the City Of Calgary had other ideas and decided that they were going to put some sort of performing arts center.

So here it is without much writing here and a picture I will just put one picture that I have here before doing some other things. It is too bad that they didn’t leave the place as it was but I guess in order for Calgary to be able to attract more tourists and big celebrities to the city they were going to have to spend more money by building more music centers to get the big named performers that they want to come in order to boost the city’s economy and some international attention. Although I have to say that it has a long ways to go before any of this happens for sure.

So here is a picture that I managed to take.