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Great to see something move forward here, even if it's just a plain, forgettable, mixed use box. That ground floor height inconsistency will drive me nuts if they keep that in the final design. The site grade isn't remarkable at all, just figure it out so we can skip all these unnecessary ramps...

I'd be far more sympathetic to the random, niche policy interests of the provincial government if they made any improvement on the major portfolios in their now 6 years in office. The biggest ones for me are health care, public education, car and home insurance and day care costs. IMO, any...

This is great news, but am always curious how a regular person would see an impact from a mutual recognition pact like this. It's kind of obvious that all these separate rules cause friction, costs and time. But it's also really diffuse sounding - like random widgets and business-to-business...

One thing that's never been clear to me is what are we actually talking about from a risk perspective on this creosote issue. From my understanding, currently there's this contamination plume under the soil at some depth just sitting there. What's the risk of doing nothing about it? It's been...

It's a really solid area with good fundamentals - great park access, flat, rivers, easy access to the core and the NW employment hubs. Bowness' main limitation like most of Calgary - that's slowly changing - is that it's such low density that it can't support a vibrant, walkable retail scene...

I think this graph sums it up pretty well, with an all-time great chart title

Another possibility is that all the red tape wasn't actually the critical path for investment decisions as much as critics/proponents claimed - market demand and price factors overwhelm the relative burden of regulation in many cases. Or it's only been 6 months in of a minority government, in...

Thesis is at least thematically appropriate near a university! That's enough to put it at least mid-pack citywide. I think you all are forgetting just how low the bar is for naming random apartment buildings in Calgary! I picked a random street in the Beltline for a baseline with 7 buildings...

There are several lessons out of Victoria Park and Stampede saga. A big lesson is to be cautiously skeptical of booster claims. History has taught us this - all that effort and public money for decades, endless Council debates, plan after plan all to expand Stampede into Victoria Park, it...

There's a ton of history here that predates internet development forums. The Stampede v. Victoria Park redevelopment was a major (by local civic standards) issue for much of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s - regular articles in the Herald for years and years about the ebbs and flows of debate...

One of these days it'll happen! We just need to be patient. I for one am still waiting on this 1989 proposal from a *West German* consortium to build a hotel at the Stampede Grounds. It's a smart play by these guys, really takes advantage of the new and shiny infrastructure in the area in the...

There's always this 24/7/365 vibrancy argument that arena and event districts make. In reality, it's a tall order - there's 8760 hours in a year, even the busiest event districts struggle to fill them all with simply event-based traffic. Not to mention many/most/all(?) events are inward-focused...

What would a long-term traffic plan look like to you? Honestly I can't imagine how 500 more locals would even be measurable from a traffic perspective in the background of Chinook Centre, where daily traffic flows from non-locals vary by the tens of thousands per day.

Thanks for posting all this great local history! I really like the different approach these construction articles were written, giving random facts and component cost breakdowns of the larger project. Also $4.1M for an underpass in 1979 is only $16M in today's dollars. Construction inflation...

Yet budget existed for all this complex curb, gutter and signal work to elevate the cycletrack and increase conflicts everywhere with a confusing design at 11th, 5th and 2nd Streets. Could have easily paid for a half-dozen curb extensions on the south side if we didn't come up this. Everything...

The way I'd summarize the downtown area highlighted as "soulness" is that it's the best example in the city that is explicitly not designed - in any way, formally or informally - to support the people that live there. Everything about how the public space is designed (5 to 6 lane arterials, zero...

That's the only thing I can think of as the rationale for such a bizarre design, but this one really got away from them. A mixing zone makes sense on the river pathway where there's subtle cues that cyclists and pedestrians should expect some mixing, but these are controlled intersections in a...

Such a weird project, helping 34th Ave turn ever further towards being a weird street. It's been interesting to watch all the Leonard group projects combine a strange interest in preserving nice (but historically unremarkable) house facades with a weird small-format retail component bolted onto...

The 5th Street and 15th Avenue intersection version of this is mostly complete and is pretty wild. I really don't get why they couldn't keep the cycling facility at street level instead of raising it up to a weird, tiny mixing zone. 5th and 12th Avenue SW have had the level crossing for a...

I think we are going to need a source on this one, the stakes are too high! 🍺