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"17 Av NW Apartments" - 17.5m, 5 storeys, 33 units. A new rendering, and DP approval (but still possible to appeal until May 23rd). This is on the map (actually twice, once as 17th Ave NW Apartments and once as 421 17 AVE), but there is no thread. Can one be created?

Lower Rideau/Roxboro is the first place that floods, so I don't know if we want dense development down there anyway.

Of course Bankview still has a steep dog park, and has things like staircases (including right next to 1732 Bankview!) that maybe you wouldn't be able to put on a newly built street. South Calgary, Bridgeland and Crescent Heights have some of this, too.

I lived in a low-rise building in Beltline that was 5 storeys tall, 4 of residential over retail and a parkade. All of the units were 2 storeys each (floors 2-3 or 4-5). So I think that kind of thing is possible here.

Projects like the Amazon hub in Balzac, and De Havilland Field near Strathmore come to mind. But I think most of the workers in these places still live in Calgary. Speaking of, something I don't know if people foresaw 10 years ago (or at least I didn't) is Vancouver running out of industrial...

Save on Foods is open now. (This probably should have been in the retail thread)

Looks like there is some discussion in the Infill thread

I'm no expert but I think this might also allow the developer to use typical homebuilder trades as much as possible.

Another @Reecemartin video:

LOC2023-0412 was approved. DP: DP2023-09025

Land use redesignation LOC2023-0334 for WestCrest Sunalta was approved. Also a new rendering: 4 buildings, 32 units, 12 m. The development permit is DP2023-07409.

Yeah, it was tiny. Some people today have projectors in their basements about as large as those screens. You couldn't beat $1 or $2 for a movie, though.

I have a memory of seeing White Men Can't Jump there. I think the second tower was under construction at the time.

The Esso plaza cheap theatres were turned into the Fifth Avenue Place food court, I believe.

I know just enough French to say that the grammar of "la ciel" hurts me. Looks like an Indian restaurant from Toronto with "instagrammable" plating: https://laciel.ca/