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Dairy Bar Sign

Small Office · low-rise office building · built 2005 · 815 Macdonald Ave SE

LiDAR roof height10 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)3

Footprint265 m²

Parcel357 m²

Year built (roll)2005

Assessed 2026$1.4M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain923 m

Civic address: 815 Macdonald Ave SE, Calgary, AB
Community: Ramsay (RAM)
City sub-property use: C102 Small Office · all Small Office sites
Land use district: C-N1 — Commercial - Neighbourhood 1 (Commercial)
Height rank: #366 of 580 citywide · #1 of 2 in Ramsay
Site coverage: 74% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 069068401
Coordinates: 51.040911, -114.042913

Massing and site plan

Left: isometric massing of every LiDAR structure on the parcel, at true scale, viewed from the south-west with 3.9 m storey lines. Right: plan of the parcel with surrounding footprints, Plus 15 walkways and nearby stations. Open this building in the 3D city →

10 m · 265 m²

Context within 150 m. Grey footprints darken with height; lime is the Plus 15 network.

How it compares

Roof height against the Ramsay median and tallest, and against the city.

Access

Public-geometry tests only; confirm routes, entrances and hours with the building.

CTrain

Nearest station: Bridgeland, 923 m straight-line (route 202). Planned Green Line station Ramsay / Inglewood is 448 m away (SE Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

Plus 15

Outside the Plus 15 network area.

Heritage inventory

The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources records the following on this parcel.

Dairy Bar Sign (Ole's Grocery & Confectionery Sign (first installation); Pop's Confectionery Sign (first confectionery, popular name))

Construction year: 1957
Architect: —
Builder: —
Style: —
Typology: —
Development era: 1957 to 1982 (Modern)
Designation: Inventory listing only

This site is significant because...

The Dairy Bar Sign has served as a treasured landmark to the local community, Calgarians and visitors for over five decades. (Landmark value, Community significance)

The Dairy Bar Sign is a reminder of the former confectioneries and dairy bars which, from the early 1940's, served as a leisure destination for the community, Sunshine Auto Camp patrons and Stampede visitors. (Symbolic value, Community significance)

The neon sign was fabricated ca 1957, at the peak of neon sign production in Calgary. However, few illuminated signs from this period remain in the city, and it is the only known early neon sign in Ramsay. (Design value, City-wide significance)

Character-defining elements: Key elements that define the heritage character of the Dairy Bar Sign include its: - location and relative placement on the north-facing narrow end of the wedge-shaped building; one storey above ground; angled mounting orientation of the sign in all planes; - projecting double-face sign with internal electronics and base mounting brackets; painted sheet metal sculptured housing with cone-shaped base and ice cream shaped top; paint colours which reflect the colour of the cone and ice cream; original fabrication details such as housing ventilation slots on the narrow edge; - pattern of bent glas

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 436.

Assessment history

Assessed values are The City of Calgary’s taxation figures by roll year, not sale prices or rents; Alberta does not publish transaction prices.

Roll 069068401 · Small Office

Series not charted. The City’s published values for this roll number change by more than half or double between years, which usually signals a re-numbered, split or partially assessed account rather than a market movement. The published figures are listed below without a trend claim.

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$100,000	—
2006	$138,500	38.5%
2007	$1.1M	723.1%
2008	$1.4M	19.3%
2009	$1.1M	-21.3%
2010	$822,500	-23.1%
2011	$701,500	-14.7%
2012	$760,500	8.4%
2013	$1.1M	46.0%
2014	$1.2M	9.0%
2015	$1.2M	0.8%
2016	$1.0M	-15.6%
2017	$1.2M	15.5%
2018	$1.4M	19.3%
2019	$1.8M	29.6%
2020	$2.1M	12.5%
2021	$1.5M	-28.5%
2022	$1.4M	-4.7%
2023	$938,000	-33.5%
2024	$875,000	-6.7%
2025	$1.1M	31.4%
2026	$1.4M	22.6%

Development and building permits

Applications the City has located on this parcel since 2012, from the Development Permits and Building Permits datasets.

Recent development permits 1 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2019-11-28	DP2019-6111	Change of Use - Discretionary Use or Relaxations Required CHANGE OF USE: MEDICAL CLINIC, RESTAURANT: FOOD SERVICE ONLY - SMALL - 21 PARKING STALL RELAXATION	Released Approval

Recent building permits 2 since 2012 · 0 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2020-05-04	BP2020-05225	3608 - Restaurant · Improvement Interior Alterations	$20,000	Expired
2015-12-09	BP2015-15717	3608 - Restaurant · Improvement Alteration new tenant (take out)	$15,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 2 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $35,000. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval; applicant and contractor names are not reproduced.

Nearby office buildings

The six nearest office building sites in the record, by straight-line distance between parcel centroids.

100 1025 10 St SE14 m · built 1914 · Office Condo · 2 accounts · Inglewood · 311 m
Stephenson & Co Building602 13 Ave SE7.5 m · year n/a · Office · Beltline · 557 m
Neilson's Furniture Warehouse438 11 Ave SE27 m · built 1910 · Office · Beltline · 778 m
Arriva Tower300 1111 Olympic Way SE123.5 m · built 2008 · Office Condo · 9 accounts · Beltline · 784 m
435 10 Ave SE4.5 m · built 1989 · Office · Beltline · 786 m
422 11 Ave SE11.3 m · built 1980 · Office · Beltline · 817 m

Dairy Bar Sign questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Dairy Bar Sign?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 10 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 3 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Dairy Bar Sign built?

The City’s assessment roll records 2005 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1957.

Which CTrain station is closest to Dairy Bar Sign?

Bridgeland Station, 923 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Dairy Bar Sign?

This profile is built from public records and does not track availability, rents or tenancy. Submit a private requirement and current options in the building or nearby will be confirmed through Commercially.

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Public record sources: Current Year Property Assessments (Parcel), Historical Property Assessments (Parcel), Assessment Subproperty Use Codes, 3D Buildings - Citywide (LiDAR roof outlines), Land Use Districts, Transit LRT Stations, Green Line Stations, Plus 15, Historic Resource (Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources), Development Permits, Building Permits, Calgary Existing Buildings - Performance Metrics (BenchmarkYYC) — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-21. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. Building names, floor counts and architects, where shown, come from Wikidata (CC0). No brokerage, listing-data or commercial research source is used.

Boundary: Assessed values are the City’s assessment-roll figures for taxation and are not sale prices, asking rents, vacancy or availability; Alberta does not publish transaction prices. LiDAR heights are roof-surface elevations above the lowest ground point at the building perimeter and can differ from architectural heights. Storey equivalents are derived at 3.9 m per storey and are not floor counts. Distances are straight-line. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval and do not establish current use, tenancy or availability. Read the methodology.

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