Calgary is Still Growing
Filed Under Calgary News Articles · Tagged: Calgary Growth, Calgary Real Estate, calgary sensus 2009
And the numbers indicate the city seems poised to better weather the latest market roller-coaster than downturns in the 1980s and 1990s, some analysts say, pointing out the 2009 net migration of 12,563 people is higher than the year before.
“It’s something to counter the perceptions of doom and gloom present in the economy,” said Harry Hiller, director of the Alberta in-migration study at the University of Calgary. “It’s the opposite.”
Mayor Dave Bronconnier called the numbers impressive, saying they buck trends across the country.
“It speaks to the resiliency of this economy, it speaks to Calgary as a place where people want to move to, want to start businesses, start a family,” he said.
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