Recent content by kora

Can't wait to tour this one when I visit Calgary. Only real downside is its remote location with little transit. Of course, not a problem for those who get around by car, which I imagine will be most residents.

I'm totally supportive of these 400-some new hotel rooms. It will only add less than 10% (out of 4500) of the quoted lack of capacity in the core. Scarcity is good for hotel rents and hotel owners. It raises prices.

Victoria has taken the approach of putting bike lanes on many arterial streets, rather than side streets. A combination of parking lanes and vehicle traffic lanes have been removed, depending on the circumstance. In the last 5 years the city's streets have been transformed beyond recognition to...

I'm all for many more hotels in the core. I would like to see how we compare to other cities for the downtown hotel shortage. Are there studies like this out there? Vancouver is also crying about a multi-1000 unit downtown hotel shortage, yet they're holding a conference for 30,000 people this...

How many of these people don't want to pay downtown hotel rates? The number is probably inflated to advocate for new hotel construction downtown. It's not like people aren't visiting Calgary because they can't find a place to stay.

Macleod Trail will be a one-sided canyon, or cliff, between 12 and 18th Avenues, when all the dust clears

Vancouver high rise residential market is collapsing in the near term. There is unprecedented fear on the west coast for the development industry. Calgary will gallop ahead.

Would be cool to see these giants coming in from the south, on Macleod Trail

Why is the Lollidome in that photo. For old times Nostalgia sakes?

Wish we saw more slender apartments like this with small floor plates

I'm waiting for the day when tearing down parking lots gets blasted as gentrification

The overconfidence in the Brexit vote result reminds me of how confident local boosters in Calgary were of a Yes vote for the Olympics.

I'm surprised to see an article in The Economist on Alberta succession titled "Canada's angry cowboys: The push for a referendum on Albertan independence is speeding up" (May 31 2025). A surprising quote and parallel from the article: "Data released on May 23rd by Leger, a pollster, found that...

There was an article in the Globe recently about the Pandora encampment in Victoria. A survey of addicts showed that on average, each person experienced 9 overdoses. The problem with fentanyl is that some overdoses cause brain damage. Treatment can't help these people and there is no good...

They didn't even bother with trees on the 4th Avenue streetscape. Just giving up there. I hope this project is rejected on design grounds.