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Famed retailers racing to calgary's red Calgary's booming economy, a young population and high levels of disposable income have some international retailers looking at this marketplace some overlooking toronto and vancouver as their first entry point into canada. A record low vacancy rate and pent up demand is fuelling massive retail development in the city, with about one million square feet currently under construction and another 6.6 million square feet proposed for the city. Within the next year to three years, calgarians can expect to spend their dollars at a number of new retail giants which will set up shop here for the first time including louis vuitton, tiffany, gucci and apple. "The massive retail projects are reacting to the pent up demand,"Said darryl schmidt, director of leasing in calgary for cadillac fairview corp.Ltd., during the Buildex Calgary conference Tuesday. "There's far too much retail demand for the inventory in the market today. & ... Read more »

10 Things You Didn't Know About Elvis Perhaps most interestingly, there's still a ton of elvis lore to discover.New biographies and anthologies seem to pop up every year, each revealing more of presley's personal habits, unbelievable stories and little known secrets. Read:Album review:Elvis presley, 'aloha from hawaii via satellite legacy edition' 1.According to rocker alice cooper, elvis once invited him along with chubby checker, liza minnelli and linda lovelace to a small gathering at his las vegas hotel suite in the 1970s.Sometime during the evening, presley retrieved a loaded.38 from his kitchen drawer and told Cooper to point it at him, saying,"I'm gonna show you how to take this gun out of somebody's hand. "Cooper jokingly says that he thought about shooting presley(And forever being known as the guy who shot elvis), but before Cooper knew what hit him, he was on the floor with Elvis' boot at his throat.Here he is telling the story on ... Read more »