Recent content by Albertasaurus

They built Eighth Avenue Place, and then decided to stop building anything else, ever again apparently.

Last I saw I believe they were going to open the towers a year or so apart, so tower 2 will probably start construction before tower 1 is complete.

True, but unfortunately the real problem is property owners who deliberately let their buildings fall into disrepair so that they have an excuse to tear them down. It's much too easy to demolish a building of heritage value.

Yeah it is nice to see some proper towers, rather than 8 identical wood frame buildings that look like they dusted off plans from 25 years ago. some of those wood frame builds in the burbs are godawful.

Amazing news! Nice to see a developer with enough confidence in East Village to actually build something for the first time in years.

I believe there is now a DP for a parking lot for 3 years on this site recently submitted, so don't get your hopes up. Edit: confirmed on Dmap, unfortunately

Talk about crushing our dreams!

One thing that sets most of Calgary's parks and open spaces apart from older cities is that they tend to be more naturalized, as opposed to the more manicured parks you'd find in Toronto, Montreal or Ottawa, or even smaller places like Halifax or Quebec. Calgary is a bit unique in that it...

I don't think it looks bad 🤷

I wonder if it'll start construction before Cantiro's Plaza ;)

DI?

I'd argue that tower separation should be much less of a thing at 15 storeys, which I consider midrise as opposed to highrise. There is no comparison to the Stampede Station situation, or those big towers in TO and Ottawa I posted the pictures of. In this case, SDAB got it wrong IMO. I heard...

The irony in all this is Toronto and Ottawa are almost certainly the worst big cities in Canada in terms of allowing towers to be so close to one another that you could practically high five one another...so whatever guidelines they have there, they don't seem to apply them.

Disappointing. Unfortunately, the broader trend is SDAB are increasingly siding with NIMBYs when it comes to appeals.

It definitely needs a plan for something other than a parking lot. There are already far too many of those in EV.