Following a public outcry to the news that artifacts used to build the Olympic Plaza 40 years ago could not be salvaged, the city offered to give back bricks found intact to their original ...

Jillian Easthope thought a sunny October afternoon would be the last time she saw her family’s bricks at Olympic Plaza. Those two commemorative bricks are among around 33,000 inscribed with the ...

The Olympic Plaza project has an anticipated budget of $70 million, according to CMLC, of which $40 million has already been allocated through the city’s 2023-2026 budget for downtown ...

Her father purchased one for the family, and her aunt had another in the plaza. Those two commemorative bricks are among around 33,000 inscribed with the names of purchasers, who bought them in ...

More than 5,000 engraved bricks have been removed from Olympic Plaza, ready to be returned to thousands of Calgarians as work begins on a major expansion of Arts Commons and redevelopment of the ...

More than 5,000 engraved bricks have been removed from Olympic Plaza, ready to be returned to thousands of Calgarians as work begins on a major expansion of Arts Commons and redevelopment of the aging ...

There's no guarantee that those who registered for the Olympic Plaza brick retrieval program will get their inscribed mementos back — but that didn't stop more 5,105 people from trying anyway.

The city's parks director said the brick-return program has proven to be a massive undertaking. "There were about 33,000 bricks with names on them in the plaza. We had requests for about 8,000 of ...