Recent content by darwink

This quarter probably ‘benefited’ from shifting arrivals into this quarter from the fall and summer.

If not, the election campaign is likely to be only an echo of itself. How many members of their team are really excited about what they've accomplished.

Why not just fund planting trees, to get the benefit today for spending today? Even better, the city could draw down existing reserves to do it. Existing reserves are excessive imo even after the arena money comes out: If the city's reserves grew in COVID, grew during the aftermath of the...

The form is having interesting innovations. That is more units than my old apartment building in Sunalta (1810 11th Street) with about the same size lot by my eyeball (edit, 25 more feet wide). 19 parking spots for 48 units. All ground floor access doors (reducing common maintenance). Hopefully...

Let’s do a theatre roundup: Palliser Square 2 —> Vertigo Theatre Bankers Hall —> Data Centre Watermark (might have been a data centre to begin with) —> paper record room (ComputerShare) Imperial Oil 9 —> ? Food Court Grand —> Grand (currently closed) Palace —> Palace Eau Claire 6 —> to be...

Happy to see big balconies again. The ability to do thermal breaks, keep the slab, and not need post tensioning is amazing engineering. I suspect this one is going public now to get ahead of the building code’s energy step up? Or has that already happened?

This will happen. The infrastructure fund post 2027, we won't have the slimmest of details until at least the fall, more likely the spring.

Yes. Your other question, they probably do. but it has been almost 20 years since they dropped station by station numbers iirc.

It is totally possible to be elevated in the beltline and then below grade for crossing under the CPR and downtown. That has been my preferred option for a long time though I kinda assumed things were locked with the proponent. Perhaps they are truly dialoguing it to reduce cost with the...

so you could weave things together and somehow think that this means the province would be fine with ending the line at 4th St SE. There are other options, like going elevated in the beltline to save a boatload of money, since the arena station will need to be huge. In the end, that is only a...

The provincial plan part is a nothing burger. The cost problem, and the geology driving risk which drives the cost problem, is a known known. So whatever. The city knew the risk, that is why the phasing was changed to deliver the downtown tunnel with the main contract, instead of on its own...

CUFF should buy the Globe. Or have a donor buy it and lease it back, in a tax preferential relationship where everyone wins.

The interest rate squeeze if they hadn't securitized their development could have been a death kneel.

Things can change with a successful completion of Eau Claire - Shepherd within the current contract.

My (non-design) job is mostly stopping spec and feature bloat due to committees. In a process unless someone or a group is empowered to reject, the power of everyone to suggest causes projects to bloat. It is extra common once you have the public sector involved. Certainly not unique though.