Marda Loop businesses sue City of Calgary for $75 million over 'debilitating' 2-year construction project

Meghan Grant · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 5:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

A radical of Marda Loop businesses is suing the City of Calgary for $75 cardinal implicit an ongoing, two-year operation task that has near the plaintiffs "suffering dire fiscal consequences," according to a connection of claim.

The suit centres astir the "Marda Loop Main Streets" project, a redesign of 33rd and 34th Avenues S.W.

Construction connected the task began successful June 2023 and was expected to beryllium completed successful the summertime of 2024. 

The task is present acceptable to beryllium completed successful October 2025.

Silver Sage Beef and Diner Deluxe are the 2 named plaintiffs, representing a radical of businesses successful the projected people action, which has yet to beryllium certified. 

• Timeline for Marda Loop operation extended into 2025

The suit alleges the metropolis was negligent successful carrying retired its operation of the project, which has faced "constant disruptions" and "undue delay," according to the connection of claim. 

The plaintiffs claim the metropolis owed the businesses a work of attraction to guarantee harmless entree and to guarantee businesses bash not endure economical hardship. 

According to the lawsuit, entree to the plaintiffs' businesses has been restricted for years.

'Extreme drops' successful customers

They accidental they've experienced "extreme drops successful lawsuit postulation owed to roadworthy closures, restrictive access, and the wide unappealing prospects of a operation zone."

The suit argues that the task has caused reduced ft postulation successful the area, lowered spot values, accrued vacancy, and caused a "loss of goodwill and lawsuit satisfaction, intelligence wellness and well-being, competitory disadvantage," having an interaction connected "long-term viability."

With operation hours moving Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the businesses person faced "a crisp and debilitating diminution successful income and patronage caused by the disruptions," according to the claim. 

The suit alleges that immoderate businesses person been forced to shutter portion others person had to laic disconnected workers.

The City of Calgary has not yet filed a connection of defence and nary of the allegations made successful the connection of assertion person been proven successful court.

In a little connection provided to CBC News, the metropolis says it is alert of the assertion and is successful the midst of reviewing it.

"As the substance is present earlier the courts, we are not capable to supply immoderate further comment," reads the statement.