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This will be great! Hopefully it turns out something like Starlight Stadium in Langford, which is pretty well integrated into the neighborhood:

There's one project proposed so far in the old student housing area. The whole area should look very similar to what's on the other side of 39th street, with mostly townhomes and a few midrises.

It's officially complete and open: https://renx.ca/gracorp-harrison-street-complete-rental-tower-calgary-university-district Sounds like Gracorp is still bullish on student housing in Calgary, even with the reduction in international students, so we may see another project from them pop up...

Exactly. Running the train at grade would likely make the area much more pedestrian friendly by significantly reducing traffic and shortening crossing distances, as long as they design it to have pedestrian crossings at every avenue. The way it is right now, if you want to go to two businesses...

There is an excavator on the lot to the south, so they might be gearing up to start work on Scholar soon.

Are they going to add BRT lanes that cut into the communities or something? Several of those stops are at the intersection of major roads with that are 100-200m away from any houses. Hard to imagine a stop that's easy to get to or pleasant to wait at here: Or here:

It's rising fast!

Looks to be fully complete!

The old Smart office is home to a few charter schools now. This is them building a gymnasium. DP2024-08333 https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/new-charter-school-hub-will-house-multiple-schools-open-2000-student-spaces-alberta-announces

Notable clue here about the height: https://norr.com/project/stampede-station-hotel-residences/

Looks to be officially completed now: