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Yeah I kind of like it - and solve this problem that many of these places have around outdoor amenites being too piecemeal or divided up to be a meaningful value to residents. A quasi-courtyard that's functional will be kind of cool. Totally random question, not unique to this building - what's...

Closer to Okotoks (16km), than the city centre (20km). The "unicity" approach creates some weird investment distributions once you get to a city of our scale.

It would be hard to do worse than the current streetscape, Centre Street south of 16th Avenue is one of Calgary's best stretches of road as an example of the totally cavalier and uncoordinated lane width decisions that go on silently over the years, effective acting like a decades long process...

Have we seen this one yet? Called Nari, in Marda Loop (34 Ave and 14A Street SW). 44 units, and a bit of retail, replacing two small walkup apartments, if I got the location right. https://www.ournari.ca/

I am increasingly skeptical of shadowing concerns for most redevelopment, such as 12 v. 8 v. 6 stories on Riley Park. Mostly this is because shadows are way too often treated as a nuisance to be avoided, rather than a more nuanced pro/con conversations. Avoiding shadows increasingly reminds me...

I admit "an infinite % increase" is an (obvious) rhetorical exaggeration, but I will stand by my claim that walking around with strollers, wagons, wheelchairs and toddlers is infinitely more reasonable, safe and enjoyable with wider sidewalks.

There's always a good chance that we will get politicians at municipal and provincial levels that will say all three things, as inconsistent as they may all be together: rapid growth will happen (1), nothing will ever change for your and your community (2), and it will all be fine (3). We...

Given how popular and widespread the 6-storey format has become, I'd advocate for all TODs to aim for that. Even at 6 stories, there tens of thousands of transit-adjacent units that could exist and would dramatically reshape the city and transit system. That level of transit-adjacent growth...

It's underappreciated how much work and scheduling effort is required when access needs to be maintained throughout a complicated, multi-infrastructure, multi-street project. It's also underappreciated that even under the best case scenario, access rarely can be maintained 100% of the time...

New tallests are often proposed towards the end of the development cycle - lots of frictions out there in the local, national and global economy right now and a massive slowdown in immigration is well underway. Calgary has learned how to build rapidly, putting downward pressure on rents and...

I think what other cities do - particularly the ones where they have substantial pre-car development as a legacy - is when they assume a truck won't turn down a local street, they really mean that and set the design vehicle and speed to such low numbers as to render the curve effectively a...

This is hardly our worst designed corner, but to deep-dive into this one, here's my argument of what might be going on: If I was to hazard a guess - it’s an outcome of the block-by-block battle in roadway design that pits the corner curve radii, drainage flows and pedestrian/cycling desire...

Is this between Westjet and The Province? What’s the background here?

Would be record pace for this one to meet that target. In the article they actually say that residential move in isn't until "mid-to-late spring of 2026" with the steakhouse expected to open in the spring of 2027. Highly recommend checking back on Page 1 of this thread for a blast from the...

My perspective on micro-units is coloured by the Toronto condo crash that dominates the Canadian conversation on this, where they have really shown the limitations of tiny units. Important context though - some of the bad feelings are really unique to Toronto's condo market and are too often...

It's been one of the better summers in recent memory for plants, particularly trees. All the stats don't easily reflect it, but the secret sauce this year was many soaking rains that were spread out over June and July, a general lack of hail storms (apart from a few big ones in the NW/NE), and...

What's with the scarcity mindset? Connectivity for active mobility should always be increased, everywhere - you need both new N/S connections and E/W connections! :)

Depending on where you are starting from and where you are going, I'd agree with you that 12th Avenue is typically best for more bike/scooter commutes from outside the Beltline, particularly now that they extended it past the death-trap that is 14th Street SW into Sunalta. But 12th Avenue can't...

Bankview is definitely an underrated hood, at least from the main stream discussions. I think what keeps it beneath the radar is how steady it is, it's not exciting or ever the "next big thing" area - it just quietly has always been redeveloping forever, often at reasonably dense, middle-class...

Yes all good points, I was mostly being cheeky with my statement - I would welcome someone doing the actual math on how much pedestrian-oriented retail is actually out there! My main point remains valid I think - this building materially changes the supply and condition of pedestrian-oriented...