Recent content by Albertasaurus

If done well, it could end up being a cool building in a retro-'60s/70s sort of way.

It's sad but true...the midrise office and apartment buildings east of MacLeod look quite similar to those in downtown Saskatoon, minus the Bessborough.

Sao Paulo is a nice surprise...I was holding out hope for Bogota, and would have been thrilled, but Sao Paulo is even better!

Honestly, The City is terrible at getting these projects moving. Their affordable housing project by the dog park in Mt Pleasant (a whopping 16 units) was proposed before Covid and is still under construction. This one - 5 years to produce a DP and they aren't even anticipating construction...

Nice! Another tower over 30 floors now u/c, which makes 3 plus Cantiro still (hopefully) ready to kick off very soon.

What is most impressive to me about those starts is how Calgary has almost as many apartment starts as Toronto in spite of having 5 million less people.

I'd argue that by North American standards, Edmonton's downtown is actually not bad for its metro size. Most US cities in the 1.5-2 million metro range have terrible downtowns. It's more the fact that Calgary and Ottawa punch far above their weight, due to being a major economic hub and...

I'm not sure there is the demand to Churchill to support a direct flight. They already have direct flights to Winnipeg which makes sense as both the nearest large city and being the capital in the same province. I am hoping for a non-Canada, non-US destination, preferably to a country we don't...

You are right, I stand corrected

This could be an exciting one to watch. O2 has in the past been involved in some pretty ambitious proposals (Broadway on 17th, Marc & Mada, the Grace Hospital site, getting Kit approved at 15 storeys in Kensington) so I am curious to see what the plan is for this site. Hopefully we'll see a...

Some really interesting numbers! Biggest surprises for me: -Edmonton is growing even faster than Calgary in percentage terms, and will overtake Ottawa very soon. -Did we ever expect to see a day when Winnipeg and Montreal were growing much faster than Toronto and Vancouver? -Winnipeg is only a...

I would love it if we got a flight to a new continent. Really hoping for South America - never made it down there, had a trip booked but had to cancel during Covid.

Maybe not the most inspiring design by any means, but I will take a 35 storey residential tower over the strip mall it replaces every day of the week.

Looks decent enough.

I do agree that Trump is acting unilaterally, and quite erratically at that