The soon-to-be home of the Calgary Flames is gradually working its way towards completion.

As the Flames navigate their final hockey season at the Scotiabank Saddledome, across the road at Scotia Place, things are coming together. Over the last few weeks, they’ve been approaching a few interesting milestones, and a few of their last external to-dos could be crossed off their list quite soon.

Here’s a snapshot of how things looked over Thanksgiving weekend.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

We’ve discussed this in most of our updates: this corner has been the most-finished part of the building since the get-go, and it remains so. Over the last few weeks, we’re seeing the front entrance look more and more refined, as well as external glass starting to be installed on both the south and west sides of the building.

Here’s a slightly different angle, showing hey look, tons of glass installed. We don’t have doors yet, though.

Meanwhile, you might have noticed that there’s an extra lane open on 14th Avenue – on the Saddledome side – and the south sidewalk on 14th Avenue has been completely redone. 14th Avenue will be a festival street once everything’s done, leading to the main entrance on the southwest corner and the Esso Community Arena entrance further down the block, and this is a bit of a preview of how the whole area could look once it’s done.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

Hey look, window framing is going up in the entrance for the new team store. Meanwhile, work continues on the various finishes on the exterior of the west and north sides, primarily setting up windows and then prepping for other external work.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

Bit by bit, this corner is looking more and more finished. The big work being done – and that will continue to be done – is the gradual build-out of the parkade structure. If you see the brown surfacing on the main building, that’s a pretty good indication of roughly how high up the parkade will end up being.

A couple quick details: hey look, on the north side, the framing for the historic Stephenson Grocery Building – which will be incorporated as a cafe – and the window framing for the food hall are being filled in.

Meanwhile, a bunch of internal walls are being set up for the rest of the parkade.

This week:

Three weeks ago:

Good news, the building is now effectively entirely enclosed now – the access spot that was visible a few weeks ago has been filled in – and we’re starting to see more and more little details filled in, such as the community arena’s entrance being closed by some tarping. It’ll be windows when it’s all done.

Meanwhile, the Esso Community Arena has a roof now. The steel beams were all installed and decking has been placed on top of that. There will be a public plaza above the community arena, so the decking will have some concrete added on top of it, and then some external finishes. But the fact that essentially everything is enclosed now – both the main rink and the community rink – is a big step towards completion.