More than 5,000 bricks have been removed from Olympic Plaza to be returned to thousands of Calgarians to clear the way for expansion of Arts Commons, as a piece of the city’s Olympic memories begins ...

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 ...

A pair of Olympic figure skaters will visit Empire State Plaza on Valentine’s Day weekend. Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker ...

Some with an engagement ring. For Keith Beggs, it was a brick surrounded by mortar and placed at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza that showed his true intent for the woman who would become his wife.

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 ...

Brick return puts history into Calgarians' hands Some people have been able to pick up their 1988 Winter Games bricks from Olympic Plaza but not all bricks will share that fate.

CALGARY - Valerie Salkeld remembers her then-boyfriend picking her up after work one cold day in January 1990 and heading over to Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary to watch people skating.

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 ...

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 ...