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Dairy Bar Sign

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

Dairy Bar Sign (815 Macdonald Ave SE) is a 10 m low-rise office building in Ramsay, Calgary, recorded on the City assessment roll as built in 2005. Its main structure is the 509th tallest office roof of the 775 ranked in this record, and 2nd of 4 in Ramsay. The City assesses the parcel at $1.4M on the 2026 roll, 723rd of 822 sites in the record by assessed value. 348 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of the parcel on a weekday. Since 2012 the City has recorded 2 building permits and 1 development permit on the parcel, the largest a $20,000 restaurant permit for alteration, applied for in 2020. It appears on the City’s Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources as Dairy Bar Sign.

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: #509 of 785 citywide · #2 of 4 in Ramsay
Footprint to parcel: 74% of the parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 069068401
Coordinates: 51.040911, -114.042913

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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.

Cycling

The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m of the parcel is a protected lane (Cycle Track), 319 m away.

Winter access

The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route, 10 m from its edge. Priority 1 routes are cleared first after a snowfall.

Accessible crossing

The nearest accessible pedestrian signal is at 9 Avenue and 8 Street, 286 m from the parcel. The closest signalised crossing, Macdonald Avenue and 8 Street at 76 m, has no accessible signal recorded.

Straight-line tests against The City of Calgary Calgary Bikeways, Snow and Ice Clearing Priority Routes and Traffic Signals, retrieved 2026-09-24. Bikeways are ranked by the City's comfort level, where 1 is a protected lane and 4 a major street. Snow priority is a clearing order, not a clearing time. An accessible pedestrian signal gives audible and tactile crossing cues; a signal recorded as unknown is not counted as having none.

Transit service

Scheduled Calgary Transit service at the door, not only the distance to a platform.

348 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of this parcel on a representative weekday, 40 of them between 07:00 and 09:00, across 8 routes and 9 stops. The closest stop is SB Bellevue AV @ MacDonald AV SE, 33 m away.

Service class	Trips on the service day
REGULAR	233
BRT	56
MAX	54
EXPRESS	5

Routes: 1 Bowness/Forest Lawn · 17 Renfrew/Ramsay · 24 Ogden · 101 Inglewood · 131 East Bow Express · 151 New Brighton Express · 302 BRT Southeast/City Centre · MP MAX Purple City Centre/East Hills.

Calgary Transit Scheduling Data (GTFS), service day 2026-09-28 inside the 2026-09-15 to 2026-12-20 service period. A trip is counted once however many stops it calls at inside the radius. Schedules change each service period; this is the schedule, not observed service.

Parking

What the City’s own tariff record says about kerbside parking beside this parcel.

Residential permit parking zone D. The centre of this parcel falls inside a City residential parking zone, so nearby residential streets are permit-restricted and are not available for all-day staff parking. Check the signs for the hours that apply.

No Active paid on-street parking zone lies within 200 m of this parcel in the City’s tariff dataset. That is not a statement that parking is unavailable: free, permit-only and off-street parking are not recorded in this source.

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: —
Style: —
Typology: —
Development era: 1957 to 1982 (Modern)
Original use: Commerce
Planning theme: Business and Industry
Designation: Inventory listing only
Inventory class: CHR

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 · Alteration Interior Alterations	$20,000	Expired
2015-12-09	BP2015-15717	3608 - Restaurant · Alteration 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.

Inspections

What City inspectors recorded against the permits on this parcel.

3 inspection results are published against 1 of the 2 building permits on this parcel, from 2016-03-09 to 2016-05-16.

What was inspected

Result of each visit

Outcome	Inspections
Acceptable	2
Not Acceptable	1

Stage

Inspection type	Count
Final	2
Progress	1

The 3 most recent inspection results

Date	Permit	Stage	Checklist	Outcome	Inspector note
2016-05-16	BP2015-15717	Final	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable	Application for occupancy received
2016-05-06	BP2015-15717	Final	DOCUMENTS Commercial	Not Acceptable	Application for occupancy must be signed by Fire and health. Call for occupancy once these departments have signed off.
2016-03-09	BP2015-15717	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable	Construction in progress. Electric range provisions have been eliminated from project. Call for final next.

An inspection result is a record of one visit, not a verdict on the building. 1 of these 3 results are recorded as Not Acceptable. In the City's process a Not Acceptable result is an ordinary step: the inspector lists what must change and the work is re-inspected, which is why the most common outcome across the record is Acceptable Add Inspection. Most results relate to a single tenant improvement rather than the whole building. Inspector notes are The City of Calgary's own text at retrieval, with contact details removed; applicant and contractor names are never read.

The City of Calgary Building Inspections Results, joined to building permits by permit number, retrieved 2026-09-24.

Occupiers and licensed businesses

The public record of who operates on the parcel, labelled by source.

Businesses licensed by the City on this parcel 2 as of 2026-09-24

Licensed business	Address	Licence type	Status	Licensed since
Apprentice Cafe And Bistro	815 Macdonald Ave SE	Food Service - Premises (No Seating)	Licensed	2023
Integra Naturopathics	1026 Bellevue Ave SE	Food Service - Premises, Retail Dealer - Premises	Renewal pending	2015

Not a tenant roster. The City licenses specific business types (retail, food service, personal services, contractors, wholesalers, schools and similar). Most office occupiers such as professional firms need no municipal licence and do not appear here. Matched by civic address and by licence location inside the parcel; home-based licences are excluded.

No individuals are named. The City issues many personal-service licences to people trading under their own name. Suite numbers are never published, and where a licence reads as an individual rather than an organisation the name is withheld and only the licence category is shown. Names of sources this site does not use are omitted.

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
1011 9 Ave SE24.7 m · built 2011 · Office use recorded by City permits (roll code X034) · Inglewood · 325 m
Stephenson & Co Building602 13 Ave SE7.5 m · year n/a · Office · Beltline · 557 m
Calgary Woodworker's Building1215 13 St SE12.3 m · built 1916 · Office use recorded by City permits (roll code X034) · Inglewood · 683 m
Western Steel Products Plant1902 11 St SE9 m · built 1926 · Office use recorded by City permits (roll code X034) · Ramsay · 699 m
Standard Soap Company1240 20 Ave SE17.8 m · built 1905 · Office use recorded by City permits (roll code X034) · Alyth/Bonnybrook · 755 m

Where this building sits in the record

Every collection this building belongs to, from the same public data shown above.

Ramsay office buildings Southeast Calgary All Small Office sites Built in the 2000s Land use C-N1 Heritage office buildings Named office buildings Transit service ranking Assessment cycle 2015–2026 Construction record

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.

What is the assessed value of Dairy Bar Sign?

The City of Calgary assesses this parcel at $1.4M in total on the 2026 roll, 723rd of 822 sites in this record. Assessed value is the City’s figure for property tax, not a sale price or an asking price.

What is Dairy Bar Sign zoned?

The parcel is designated C-N1, Commercial - Neighbourhood 1, under the City of Calgary Land Use Bylaw. Confirm the designation and any amendments with the City before relying on it.

Which CTrain station is closest to Dairy Bar Sign?

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

Who is in Dairy Bar Sign?

The City of Calgary business licence register lists 2 licensed businesses at this address or inside the parcel as of 2026-09-24, shown in the occupiers section. Most office occupiers such as professional firms do not need a municipal licence, so the register is not a tenant roster.

Has Dairy Bar Sign been inspected?

The City publishes 3 inspection results against 1 permit here, between 2016-03-09 and 2016-05-16. Each result records one visit and most relate to a single tenant improvement, so this is not a verdict on the building.

How good is transit at Dairy Bar Sign?

348 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of the parcel on a representative weekday, 40 of them in the morning peak, across 8 routes. The closest stop is SB Bellevue AV @ MacDonald AV SE, 33 m away. That is the published schedule for one service period, not observed service, and it counts each trip once however many stops it makes nearby.

Can staff cycle or get there in winter at Dairy Bar Sign?

The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m is a protected lane, 319 m away. The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route. It sits inside residential permit parking zone D, so nearby residential streets are not available for all-day parking. These are straight-line tests against City layers.

Where can visitors park at Dairy Bar Sign?

No Active paid on-street parking zone lies within 200 m of this parcel in the City's tariff dataset. Free, permit-only and off-street parking are not recorded in that source, so this is not a statement that parking is unavailable.

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), Calgary Business Licenses, On-Street Parking Zones with Rates, Building Inspections Results, Residential Parking Zones, Snow and Ice Clearing Priority Routes, Traffic Signals, Calgary Bikeways — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-24. 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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