Shopping In Calgary Is An Exciting Experience These Days!

Shopping in Calgary was pretty much a tedious chore not too many years ago.

But like everything else these days, things change! Sometimes for the better!

And so it is when we are talking about buying stuff for the family in and around Calgary.

Just a few short years ago on the south side of the city, and just off the Deerfoot Trail a sprawling complex, called Deerfoot Meadows, was added.

It brought in some large box stores and the pressure of the competition brought on a flurry of activity in the form of substantial additions and renovations of the existing centers, such as Chinook Center and South Center as well as North Hill Center.

The old standby facilities all have undergone significant upgrades and new merchants rallied to the cause and opened up locations in Calgary.

Of course the enormous expansion of the city and the great influx of people from all over Canada and the rest of the world, resulted in many ethnic and specialty stores all over the city as well.

While this was happening inside the city of Calgary, similar growth and expansion of grocery and variety stores were springing up in all the satellite cities and towns such as Aidrie, Strathmore, Okotoks, High River and Cochrane.

And if that created not enough excitement, along came a $1 billion development just 7 km north of the Calgary airport in Rockey View County that opened in August of 2009 with the largest single level shopping centre in western Canada and the first enclosed shopping centre to be built in Alberta in the past 20 years, costing about $500 million.

It’s called

CrossIron Mills and in the opening week well over 250.000 people came to have a look at some 17 new stores to Alberta, including 150000 square foot Bass Pro Shops.