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What's old is new again. Pre-"Red Mile" you had a bunch of retail, including clothing shops, that was swept away in favour of bars and...

Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming...

Marda Loop could use more “normal” retail. Cool wine bars are awesome and we should always have more of them, but we also need a bit...

I don’t love the design, but I happy to see it get built. I’d rather have an empty lot filled with a mediocre building than have it empty.

There's probably also a lack of desirable homes to downsize too. The popular older person home is the medium size bungalow that has...

It is going to be really interesting and exciting to see how these density numbers increase come the next census. There's been a lot of...

Here's my take on densities, a similar but slightly different analysis. I calculated densities with three changes; I used buffered...

For the smaller cities, a lot of it is a threshold problem and how census tracts are drawn - they just don’t have a lot of areas at...

Here's a post I did about this a few years ago, summarizes my attempt to rationalize population, density and the "vibe" of a city. link...

The zoning is being discussed at Council as I type this (so no vote as of yet), but there was a great presentation by the applicant that...

Id say 10–12 (splitting hairs i know lol…). It cant be understated just how important the rejigging of the VP LRt station was….being...

Dunno if anyone cares but I updated Calgary's Wikipedia page for its tallest buildings last week! I found it lacking and missing a few...

Based on their estimated completion timeline, they'll need to move quickly. There's still no DP in but I would guess they'll try to...

To be honest, I don't care if it's going to be the tallest in western Canada or not. Even if it tops the Stantech tower, it's likely...

Q2 wrapping up today, here's what's on the go for non-greenfield multi-family developments (25 units or more). A good quarter for new...