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public and the media than any other construction cornerstone was laid for the building back in 1907,”

initiative he’s been involved with in the past. Bell Bell says.

says that when the city opened the building on the
15th of September, it was a pretty small, low-key “Restoring the heritage, heart and history of

affair due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Still, we had Calgary” – I think that tagline really resonated with
members of the public stopping on the sidewalk people,” Bell says. “Calgary’s also a relatively new

to listen to the speeches, and then they broke into city, so it’s like a landmark building, people always

applause when the building was actually re-opened know where it is. Now that it’s been restored and
which is pretty darn neat,” Bell says. rehabilitated, it looks fabulous where it sits in the

corner of downtown.”
“It took them four years to originally build it, and

four years for us to rehabilitate it, almost to the https://newsroom.calgary.ca/the-city-of-calgary-

day; there’s a synergy there. The day we re-opened celebrates-the-completion-of-the-historic-city-hall-
it (September 15) this year, that was the day the heritage-rehabilitation/

The work environment underneath the wrap - the temperature inside remained stable at a minimum of 15 degrees Celsius.

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