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That’d be great spot or the one Stephen Ave predicted. Nice to be getting yet another downtown hotel.

I’m guessing +60K for Calgary.

12 floors is doable I think. Ezra is 8 floors, but doesn’t shadow the park. In the summer there are times when I wish there was some extra shade.

Exactly. Three to four hundred new residents, retail fronting the street, and if we’re lucky, a new sidewalk!

Lots of exciting times ahead. 1405, Beltline Block, Plaza, Stampede hotel and Galloway will be following the Truman towers. Maybe 1150 Centre as well 😎😎😎

It’s always a shock when the CA doesn’t oppose something.

I voted for BMO Hotel. Not that I’m expecting a hotel to go up there, but if an architectural firm has created a concept proposal for that site then you have to think there’s something going on there. I also wonder if this is for Eau Claire. I’ve heard there is large proposal coming there. It’s...

The area’s busy, and once the area sees some development it’ll take off. It has future midtown written all over it.

You can find different types of housing styles in Montreal but it’s not the same distribution you find in Calgary. If you want an 1600 sq ft, two-story townhouse with a small yard for a garden and not having anybody above you in inner city Montreal there aren’t very many. Those that are...

I would respectfully disagree. I don’t really like the typology. At least in the case of the Montreal apartments, the three story, four story apartments in Montreal are still really just apartments. They’re not the row home style builds that we see here in Calgary with multi levels and a yard.

It’s a fair point about the economics, I get that in the city proper of Montreal there wouldn’t really be a reason to build a traditional row home. The problem with that stats Canada number is they have one number for everything under five stories. About 90% of those low rises are three story...

From what I’ve seen, all the apartment builds are either four or five story, low rise or high rises and almost virtually no row no homes and very few of the smaller multi-plex builds.

That’s the story of the area surrounding Chinook centre. There’s a lot of development, all of it nondescript, but I guess we have to start somewhere.

Montreal’s an interesting case. Not much in the way of single-family homes, duplex, or row homes. Apartments are great, but as a city, I’d rather aspire to seeing missing more middle type homes and other housing choices.

Nothing fancy, but great to see Heritage station get some love with two nearby projects u/c