City Administration updated the Event Centre Committee on the work and progress to date. Work continues among all the Parties to move the two projects, which includes the Event Centre Block and Culture + Entertainment District Improvements, forward. This work is focused on finalizing the agreements, which we expect will continue through summer.

As well, The City and CSEC are releasing Stage One of the Request for Proposal on Tuesday, June 6. This process starts the process to hire a Development Manager, who will oversee and coordinate the work for the Event Centre Block. 

We’ve received a number of questions on the agreement and The City’s role. It’s exciting to see how much Calgarians are interested in this important step in city building for Calgary’s Culture + Entertainment District and Calgary’s successful future. 

We’ve created a separate web page – Calgary.ca/ecagreement – that provides more details on each of these projects. Once the agreements are finalized, we will provide further details on the work and schedule moving forward. You can also read Frequently Asked Questions, which we continually update as the project moves forward. 

It’s a significant investment and the next step in Calgary’s renewal as a global city and international destination. It’s also one piece of a total package that supports Calgary’s downtown recovery and Calgarians who live here now and will move here in the future.

• Read the detailed Council cover report
• Read the formerly restricted recommendations
• Read the previous Council direction

We are committed to transparency, while respecting the four parties who are still working to finalize  agreements. We will always provide information publicly as soon as it’s avaialble throughout work on the agreements and after they are finalized later this summer.