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Apart from my previous issues with all developments along this stretch that tend to ignore 17th Avenue, this is actually a pretty simple, but seemingly well thought-out clump of density. Gives me mountain village vibes for some reason - it's like the developer thought people in their buildings...

Ground floor could use some work here - the ridiculously large road setback on Edmonton Trail isn't helping either. The rendering and the design both overestimate how steep the slope is, it's almost like they couldn't imagine designing anything on a slope so they just plopped a design for a...

Exactly - you'd think the Stampede would be all over this idea, it seems so synergistic to everything they say they want to be. In the time that Stampede has talked about being a year-round place, Eau Claire Market has come and gone that imagined something similar to downtown market. Eau Claire...

It would be a perfect fit - perhaps add a real farmers market or some direct connection between agriculture and the grounds. Stampede has talked about being a year-round place for 30+years but never really pulling the trigger in a meaningful way, apart from replacement and upgrading of existing...

It’s a weird uncanny valley that all Calgary history museum type places have fallen into. Seems expensive to visit for the size of museum and the amount of stuff in it. Located weirdly so it’s hard or awkward to access for anyone who doesn’t already know how to get there. Unclear how it...

Here's some more information https://globalnews.ca/news/10498869/calgary-stampede-sam-centre-grand-opening/#:~:text=The%20Calgary%20Stampede%20celebrated%20the,the%20wait%2C%E2%80%9D%20Taylor%20said. Quotes from the article: “Sam Centre is a 100-year-in-the-making storytelling gem for the...

I find Bankview interesting in that for some reason Calgary decided here: "yeah totally cool to build on steep hills here with all sorts of building scales." Meanwhile almost every other slope in the city is unimaginable to build on and ended up often as some sort of dog park with huge setbacks...

This might be a stupid question, but always cloudy to me how restricted covenants works, especially new ones that are retroactively applied after a community exists. If I own a house in Roxboro and don't want a new restricted covenant added, the community can't force me to do anything, right...

To each their own so no judgements - but I think sometimes it's worth going back to a previous page in this thread as much of this has some thoughtful discussion already debating the nuances where and what it means to "be the next Detroit. May help address the "is Edmonton Detroit" issue. :cool:

I think this actually a pretty good outcome - gets us a surprising amount of density by trading off some things that are increasingly nice-to-haves instead of "needs" all while staying ground-oriented with your own door, reasonably short, and cost-effective. This kind of product is and will...

I think the Metropolitan gets a worse rep from the shadows because of it's context - for example, here's 15 Ave in-front of the much taller Montana building. 1 travel lane, two parking lanes, buffered sidewalks and a bike lane: Here's the Met - 4 lanes all concrete 1-way: We could argue the...

On that how do they know this exactly? Do they just have sensors on doors that just count how many people enter a train? Taking this a step further, do we know which stations are the busiest in the system in March 2024?

It's a good point by the mayor here - like duh, city and regional transit systems need to connect, but threatening to pull funding if the city's system doesn't connect to a master plan that the Province announced like 2 weeks ago on the back of a napkin and won't be completed until 2025 is...

$2.4M is probably a lot for a festival that scale to afford, but really isn't a lot of money when infills are like $1 - 2M in many places. I assume high operating and maintenance costs must weigh on the property and future plans - it's one thing to run a festival, another to maintain a large...

As a comparator, the Calgary Underground Film Fest just wrapped in late April and is based exclusively out of The Globe on Stephen Ave. They've had another banner year, on Instagram they are reporting 30% increase from previous records of ~11,500 attendees over 10 days of film (2 weekends and...

Transit continues to post strong numbers, 21% increase over 2023 Q1 and a new all-time C-Train record, ~8.8 million boardings on the LRT in March 2024. Awesome to see. https://newsroom.calgary.ca/record-breaking-ridership-marks-calgary-transits-success-in-q1-2024/

This may be a dumb question - but can they just not cover the brick in these redevelopments? I don’t really get why it would be cheaper to add a whole new outer layer of the building rather than just adapt what you have.

It would be really fascinating to have actual data on Lindsey Park’s split-personality. The most walkable recreation facility in the city / the most drivable one with a literal right-in-right out highway-style ramp. I wonder where they typically see more traffic from? Locals or commuters...

Regarding the streetscape and the many, many infill retail and development projects not cancelled - one thing all this construction will reveal in about 2 years is a entirely new Marda Loop. I can't imagine what the neighbourhood will look like with functionally wide sidewalks for the first time...

For us non-construction types, what's the reason this happens sometimes on this metal siding? What do you do to prevent it and what can you do to fix it once it happens?