Scotia Place: a street-level look at construction progress from early November 2026

Friends, things keep chugging along with the construction of Scotia Place.

We’re getting into autumn – though you wouldn’t know it based on the weather – and a flurry of activity continues as the crews work towards next year’s handover deadline for the facility. We’ve shifted to a scenario where the majority of the progress will be indoors, but there’s still a lot going on outside that we can see from street level.

Here’s a snapshot of how things looked just prior to Remembrance Day.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

We’re starting to get closer to exterior finishes on the southwest corner. There’s windows! There’s more or less the final shape of everything. There’s framing for the exterior video ribbon that’s going to run from the patio area of the bar all the way through the inside plaza and out onto the south plaza. Window installation has continued up Stampede Trail (on the left side of the photo) and down 14th Avenue (on the right side). No doors yet, though.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

Hey look, there’s windows installed on the entrance to the team store! Hey look, there’s exterior framing and envelope being installed on the north side (12th Avenue).

Hey look, they’re making progress installing the historic Stephenson and Co. Grocers building into the 12th Avenue facade!

This week:

Three weeks ago:

Hey look, the parkade is progressing quite a lot – there’s a whole extra level to it now. Hey look, they’re starting to install what they’re calling the exterior finishes – the design team calls them the “cauldron fins” – on the main arena structure! Hey look, they’re making progress finishing the exterior framing on the food hall structure (on the right side of the photo).

Here’s a closer look at just how far the parkade is moving along.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

Hey look, they’re working on installing the exterior framing supports on the ESSO Community Arena structure! Hey look, they’ve also installed the entrance canopy above the community arena’s entrance, too! Oh, and they’ve poured the concrete slab on top of the steel roof structure of the community rink. Remember: the community rink is entirely under ground, and its roof is the surface for the ground level south plaza area fronting onto 14th Avenue. They have a bit more work to do here at ground level to facilitate that plaza work, but it’s all coming along.

Via the City, here’s a fun October time lapse, which showcases a ton of cool stuff happening inside the building.

The biggest things? The roof is supporting itself now, and they’re pouring the event level concrete slab. The arena slab will be coming later on – it might be one of the later things they do because of the complexity of all the stuff that has to be included in the arena slab to facilitate ice creation – but the “big things” to-do list is being whittled down.