Coun. Joe Magliocca inquired during a meeting this week if Calgary Economic Development is interested in attracting the United Nations headquarters away from New York City.
“I’ve heard through rumours that the UN wants to move out of New York,” Magliocca told CED chief executive officer Mary Moran during the group’s annual meeting.
“Is there any ambition on going after that?”
If the local development authority was prepared to fight a bear to bring Amazon to town — the slogan of its 2017 campaign to attract the online retail behemoth — what would it battle to draw the world’s most powerful intergovernmental organization here?
Hey, we’ve got floors upon floors of available downtown office space and The Economist has designated Calgary the most livable city in North America.