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Fantastic post and analysis. In a warming world shade/shadows need to start bein considered for their positive applications as well. A...

Have we seen this one yet? Called Nari, in Marda Loop (34 Ave and 14A Street SW). 44 units, and a bit of retail, replacing two small...

Final top level paving in Marda Loop goes from Sept 7-24. All done at night to not disrupt business. Businesses are still complaining of...

I am increasingly skeptical of shadowing concerns for most redevelopment, such as 12 v. 8 v. 6 stories on Riley Park. Mostly this is...

I’m also in the area, and I completely agree. I have a hunch that the people complaining about how ‘impossible’ marda loop was to access...

I admit "an infinite % increase" is an (obvious) rhetorical exaggeration, but I will stand by my claim that walking around with...

There's always a good chance that we will get politicians at municipal and provincial levels that will say all three things, as...

Given how popular and widespread the 6-storey format has become, I'd advocate for all TODs to aim for that. Even at 6 stories, there...

Matco had the land and couldn’t make the numbers work for concrete. I literally did the numbers and submitted an RFP to build it out...

The problem was that Matco was dead set on concrete mid rise out of preference and it was too expensive to build compared to the...

It's underappreciated how much work and scheduling effort is required when access needs to be maintained throughout a complicated...

They are doing one block at a time on Stephen Ave, so keep an eye on that to see I guess. Good question though, going piece meal on the...

New tallests are often proposed towards the end of the development cycle - lots of frictions out there in the local, national and global...

I think these are the numbers they want, will depend on whether they can sell units, inflation due to tariffs, interest rates and a...

It's also very hard to "create" a high end retail street, or any type of street. They have to develop organically because no developer...