Updated July 9, 2011... see bottom post
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The old Catholic School Building, most recently occupied by the Workers Compensation Board, at 300 6th Avenue SE, is for sale by the Calgary Catholic School District as a redevelopment site (via Colliers international) according to newspaper ads in the first week of January 2011. The 1968 building is on the heritage inventory, and includes thousands of plaques that were done by Catholic school students for the 1975 Calgary centennial, attached to facades and on an obelisk. We are rapidly losing our small stock of brutalist-style buildings (the CBE HQ across the street, an excellent example, will also soon be vacated and be put up for sale, presumably). As for the centennial obelisk and plaques, are there any plans to preserve or relocate them?
(Yours truly did one of those plaques and was a representative of Sacred Heart School at the grand unveiling; I was in grade 3 and as I recall I was allowed to walk all the way from the school in Sunalta to the "east end" of downtown by myself for the dedication ceremony. Hard to imagine today!)