The King Edward Hotel (also known simply as The King Eddy) is a former hotel in Calgary, Alberta. It is currently abandoned, with plans of incorporating it into the Downtown East Village revitalisation project.
Construction on the new National Music Centre is well underway and crews are in the process of painstakingly putting the old King Eddy Hotel back together one brick at a time. In October 2013, crews started the tedious task of taking the century-old hotel apart brick-by-brick. The bricks have been wrapped and are being stored on pallets inside a shipping container to preserve them while crews work to reassemble the structure. Even the hotel's front door step has been saved to be used again. The King Edward Hotel will be a part of the new $168 million facility that will also include performance spaces, recording studios, broadcasting facilities and an extensive collection of artifacts including the Canada Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
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