The 2026 edition of the Calgary Stampede is over, friends. Scotia Place construction has continued head-long as we’re entering the final year of construction.

A lot has been done. But there’s a lot left to do before the keys are handed over to Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation sometime in the summer of 2027 (ahead of their opening for the 2027-28 NHL season).

This week:

Two weeks ago:

The de facto front door of the new barn has looked pretty similar for a few months now, with preparations starting to go up for finishes. If you look at the middle of the image, you can see a lot of the steel framing going up for the entranceway, and even some of the green building envelope materials, too. Aside from some of the external finishes – and, like, the installation of external glass and stuff like that – this side of the building is coming along nicely.

Here’s some concept art for the finished product:

This week:

Two weeks ago:

This is starting to look more and more like the eventual finished product. The angular steel framing for the exterior structure is coming along well – the left side is the food hall, the right side is the team store, and the gap in the middle is one of the building’s entrances – and we’re seeing building envelope panels being added to the Stampede Trail side (on the right) and the 3M panels going up over top of the building envelope on the main bowl (“Cauldron”) structure.

As with the prior stopover, here’s the concept art of the finished product:

This week:

Two weeks ago:

We’ll repeat a familiar refrain: hey, this is starting to look a lot like the finished product! Exterior framework is moving along pretty quickly along the east side of the building, followed by the green building envelope panelling. We’re also seeing the exterior framing progress on the food hall on the north side. (Also, we completely whiffed on remarking upon the appearance of the waste management entrance – the second concrete entrance way on the left – which appeared early in June. We feel great shame. The main parkade entrance will be further down the block towards the ESSO Community Rink corner.)

Meanwhile, here’s a quick view of the east side of the building:

And here’s a similar view, albeit slightly closer, from two weeks back:

Here’s a bonus view from Scotsman’s Hill!

The roof structure is progressing. One third of the roof (on the Stampede Trail side, the west side of the building) is up. The second third (on the 5A Street side, the east side of the building) is halfway up. And presumably they’ll then finish off with the middle third, functionally close up the bowl/Cauldron structure, and then continue to work on finishing off the interiors. Once the building is fully enclosed, there’s going to be a flurry of activity with literally thousands of workers prepping everything on the inside.

As noted previously, the parkade structure will be on the east side – in the big gap behind the ESSO Community Rink building entrance. You can see from the Scotsman’s Hill view: there’s a ton of form work and prep work being done on that front, including what appears to be the ramp structure to the lower level of the parkade. (If it’s anything like most parkades, it’ll be mostly concrete, so it’ll need to be poured and probably in stages. We’re anticipating that sort of work would be sequenced with the ESSO Community Rink’s exterior plaza/rink roof.)

This week:

Two weeks ago:

This corner doesn’t look a whole lot different, as most of the progress we’re seeing are things that are working their way towards this corner of the building. As noted previously, that hole in front of the steel structure is where the ESSO Community Rink goes, so they’ll need to close that up with some combination of steel beams and concrete, and then finish that section of things.

Here’s concept art of how that’ll look when it’s all done: