Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill is an inner suburban neighbourhood in northwest Calgary , Alberta , Canada . Located north of the Hillhurst and West Hillhurst communities, the boundaries of the district are 16th Avenue N ( Trans-Canada Highway )to the north; 14th Street W to the east; Lane north of 7th Avenue N to 19th Street W and 8th Avenue N to the south; and Crowchild Trail , 12th Avenue N, Juniper Road, and 22nd Street W to the west. Lions Park C-Train station and North Hill Centre are located within the community. In the early 90s, a gas station located in the North Hill Centre parking lot was found to have been leaking fuel, contaminating the soil and groundwater in Hounsfield Heights with benzene and 1,2-Dichloroethane . The community is built on an escarpment and is popular for its views of downtown to the south and the Rocky Mountains to the west.
14-542: Hounsfield may refer to: Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill, Calgary , an inner suburban neighbourhood in northwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada United States [ edit ] Hounsfield, New York , a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States People with the surname [ edit ] Godfrey Hounsfield (1919–2004), English electrical engineer who shared
28-462: A median household income of $ 59,502 in 2000, and there were 7.8% low income residents living in the neighbourhood. As of 2000, 15.1% of the residents were immigrants . A proportion of 21.5% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments , and 21.6% of the housing was used for renting . In 2006, there was one school in the district: In the early 90s, a gas station located in the parking lot of North Hill Centre and operated by Sears Canada
42-760: Is a shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta , Canada. It opened in 1958, and was Calgary's first shopping mall. The original anchor tenant was Simpsons-Sears (later Sears Canada ), but it closed on January 8, 2018. Stores began opening in the mall in June 1958, and the mall's official grand opening as the Calgary Centre was in October 1958. It was billed as the largest shopping centre in Western Canada, with about 30 stores and services. As described by mall spokeswoman Paula Newhold: "It
56-518: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hounsfield Heights The area has a rich history. It was once part of the Riley family homestead. Thomas Riley and his wife Georgina Hounsfield Riley and their children settled there in 1888. Their home, Hounsfield Lodge, was situated on the present site of the Bethany Care Centre. The community
70-535: The Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and users of the CTrain , became pay-only. The mall's western lots remained free parking. The mall's Sears Canada location closed, along with the rest of the chain, in early 2018. As of 2023, a furniture store was operating out of the ground-floor level of the former Sears. In 2018-19 the mall added two junior anchor store tenants: Dollarama and Winners . In
84-465: The 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Harold William Hounsfield Riley (1877–1946), Canadian politician Reginald Hounsfield (1882–1939), English footballer Thomas Hounsfield (1910–1994), English cricketer See also [ edit ] Hounsfield scale , a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
98-494: The mall was renovated. The interior columns were removed, the mall ceiling was raised to a consistent height, and additional shops and services were added. A new food court was developed, and the Canada Safeway, previously located at the east end of the mall next to Sears, was relocated to the west end, replacing the by-now-defunct SuperValu grocery store and becoming the mall's west anchor. The renovations also involved demolishing
112-528: The standalone movie theatre/bowling alley on the mall's north side to make room for more parking and building footprint expansion, which included the addition of several restaurants and other businesses with exterior-only access. In 2004, The Renaissance, consisting of two eight-storey condominium towers, was built adjacent to the mall and above a new covered parking area. By the mid-2010s, the mall's easternmost parking lot area, often used by students from nearby Southern Alberta Institute of Technology , visitors to
126-410: The storefronts in the mall. By the 1990s, anchor tenants for the mall were Sears and Canada Safeway (on the east end), along with Super Valu (on the west end), giving the mall two major grocery stores. Until the late 1990s, the mall also had a small Zellers location. The North Hill Theatre and Fairview Bowling Alley, erected in the parking lot in 1967, remained in operation until 1999. In 2000,
140-427: The structure was demolished as part of the mall's major 2000 renovation. North Hill Centre was originally built as a strip mall accompanied by a freestanding Simpson-Sears department store. In 1973 the mall underwent a major renovation, which added 20 more stores and enclosed the shopping area. The design featured a central corridor with irregularly sized columns and ceiling heights, presenting an inconsistent look to
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#1732847788861168-495: Was annexed by the city of Calgary in 1906, and it was established as a neighbourhood in 1953. In the City of Calgary's 2012 municipal census, Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill had a population of 2,954 living in 1,109 dwellings, a 0.9% increase from its 2011 population of 2,927 . With a land area of 1.2 km (0.46 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,460/km (6,380/sq mi) in 2012. Residents in this community had
182-651: Was found to have been leaking fuel into the soil and contaminating the nearby groundwater. The leak occurred for at least two decades, leading to a large underground plume of gasoline. Because of this, it was necessary to create several monitoring sites and extraction wells in the east side of Hounsfield Heights. As of 2020, the sites consist of 127 groundwater monitoring wells, 7 extraction wells, and various meters installed in residential homes. Preliminary analyses of contamination levels indicate that benzene and 1,2-DCA concentrations will decay to acceptable levels within 15 years. North Hill Centre North Hill Centre
196-464: Was revolutionary to have a mall and to have late-night shopping and all of that kind of stuff that is just quite normal for us now. The real experience was that it was all in one place - that was the interesting thing." The Fairview Bowling Alley was erected in the parking lot in 1967, replacing an alley that had previously operated in the mall's basement. North Hill Cinema opened above the bowling alley in 1967. Both remained in operation until 1999, when
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