I wanted to get this news roundup posted on Saturday, but as I pointed out on Twitter this weekend rated well over 9 on the patio index. No matter, if you were spending your weekend right you wouldn’t have read it until now anyway.

    

A lot of new pertaining to the future of Edmonton’s downtown. We take a quick look at the progress on three big projects: The Quarters, the ECCA Lands and The RAM.

    

In which I laugh at funny fireworks packaging and also roundup last week’s planning news.

    

So far at the Charrette we’ve only listed things that have happened in the past. That’s great, but wouldn’t it be nice to know what’s going on around town before it happens? So, we’re going to try a little time travel experiment. Let’s hope we don’t end up that horrible alternate 1985.

    

Hey guys, remember way back when Roberto Luongo helped Team Canada defeat the Americans, bringing home the gold. No? Oh, it was just last year. Vancouver 2010? That whole thing? Well my point is maybe before you pile on the hate wagon remember the good times, okay?

    

The downtown arena deal has been a whole lot of mystery meat and doughnut holes, so Councillor Ed Gibbons is planning on bringing a pan of question mark cookies to the meeting on June 22. Perhaps I should explain what that means.

    

This was a perfect weekend and if you didn’t spend some time walking or biking in the river valley this weekend you really missed out. Heck, apparently you can take a Segway tour of the scenery if you’re lazy so you’ve got no excuse. And you better not have been sitting at your computer reading city planning news. That’s what roundups are for!

    

Step right up folks, and see if you can figure out what will happen during Thursday’s council meeting. Your card is the 3 of City Centre Redevelopment. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, follow your card. And we turn over… the Ace of Arenas. Sorry! Better luck next time!

    

This last week I’ve been focused on taking old electronics to the Eco Station, selling stuff on Kijiji, and boxing things up for the big move. In two weeks it’s goodbye Parkallen, and hello Alberta Avenue. Don’t worry, I’ll come back to visit—you can’t keep me away from the south side of the river.

    

In this week’s planning news, we’re talking about lines: intercity train lines, LRT lines and lines of computer code. And, of course, we’re talking about the new home of the Royal Alberta Museum – and we didn’t even use one RAM pun. (But God, we wanted to.) Come see!