Arts Commons Transformation Project

Province: Alberta

City/Region: Calgary

Image Credit: CLMC

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Project End: 2028

Project Type: Public Spaces

Industry Sector: Buildings

Project Amount: $480 million

Date of Completion: 2028

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About The Project

 A vivid demonstration that great cities invest in their futures, the Arts Commons Transformation will expand and modernize Calgary’s premier performing arts centre while nurturing revitalization of the city’s downtown core. Design for the fully funded $270 million expansion, a new building on the Arts Commons campus, is underway and will break ground in 2024. A capital campaign will launch in 2023 to secure the remaining funds to re-imagine and modernize the existing Arts Commons facility. 

Financing Detail: Budget: $450M (Phase 1 Expansion $270M, Phase 2 Modernization $180M) City of Calgary’s Greater Downtown Plan - $80M City of Calgary’s Municipal Sustainability Initiative - $25M CMLC’s Community Revitalization Levy - $165M

Project Owner: City of Calgary/Arts Commons

Project/Construction Manager: Project Manager: Calgary Municipal Land Corporation/Colliers Project Leaders; Construction Manager: EllisDon

Engineer: Entuitive, Reinbold/Altiere Sebor Weiber, Crossey Engineering with Designcore

Other Key Players: Threshold Acoustics, Fisher Dachs Associates, AMS Planning and Research, Venue Consulting and A.W. Hooker Associates; Hanscomb (cost consultant)

Architects: KPMB, Hindle Architects, Tawaw Architecture Collective Inc., SLA

Legal: Bennett Jones

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