Recent content by darwink

2 more years of flat. From the Parliamentary Budget Officer:

It depends how you design the stations. no need for a mezzanine if you take a bit more surface land. Totally possible to build a station this deep as an 'underground' station. You do end up in an optimization problem though: if you go deeper you can build the station box far less strong with...

What would the city accomplish with this control? The university will eventually build it up when the market is ready. Yeah, a bubble I'd bet. A minimal cost thing to have some extra public benefit. Would they be? Compared to a 2016 minimal renovation cost for McMahon at $90 million?

McMahon can have the exact same funding stack. Nothing prevents the feds, or the city or CSEC contributing money to it.

Yeah, the province would have to decide to step up and fund as would the city. Federal funds would come from the existing fed/prov/muni pool, so funding the facility would mean less for transit, or a rec centre, or a museum. CSEC would be minimal - there isn't profit to extract from here. An...

I imagine something like this in Edmonton, perhaps a bit larger, in the 6000 range. https://edmontonexpocentre.com/floorplans/edmonton-expo-centre-arena/

Until very recently Edmonton had more office space downtown than Vancouver iirc, so it only looked underwhelming compared to the major outlier of Calgary.

I am not sure how’d you exactly count it, but it would be interesting to track time to completion. Like, maybe one cause of the housing crisis is people’s impression of how much housing being built is wrong due to projects taking three times as long in certain places.

AUArts for an institutional use makes the most sense, but would require a substantial public investment maybe in the $200 . Once you start reconfiguring, you have to get everything hazardous out, try to fix weird elevation changes. And probably double height each thing. $150mm to start? $300 per...

Figuring out what it should be is most of the battle. It is large enough that only very particular clients would want a full floor. and even then, they'd likely want to lease 2 floors, and make it double height, to be able to actually use most of the floor plate.

Love shooting breaks. Hopefully more of that body style proliferates with EVs.

Yeah. The cost is amazingly high. $310 million. https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/scope-of-downtown-hudsons-bay-redevelopment-project-shifts-as-budget-grows/

Closest comparison is the federal building in Edmonton imo. Cost hundreds of millions a decade ago to renovate.

" The U.S. regulated electric utility industry currently exhibits a weighted average P/E ratio of approximately 19.80 to 21.54, with industry-specific analysts noting a 19.99 TTM (Trailing Twelve Months) P/E for 4Q 2025 . " They'd get maybe $2.6B.

83 for downtown commuters. 28 and 29 to go to Beaverbrook. seems different but good.