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I toured the interior of several units last week and was less than impressed 1. The finishings are on par with Arris and other rental condos. They are bland and lower-end feeling as they probably expect maintenance and replacement due to rental turnover 2. The amenities are not in the podium...

When I have a chance, I'll provide some pictures but the current tenant lounge for the commercial tenants is quite lovely. It has a putting green, driving range simulator, foosball, big kitchen, booths, big TV, etc. if Palliser goes residential, I wonder if it will be open to residential tenants.

The conversion to residential of 11 floors is an interesting development. Prior to covid, my company had various floors in Palliser One but we are planning to leave as the leases end in 2022.

Walking around on Saturday, I do think that extending the free street parking that is normally on Sunday also to Saturday would help downtown businesses and restaurants. That would not be a major impact to commuters who work M-F. That seems like a no-brainer to me. Thoughts?

more LEDs are coming on

Is it too soon to put Harvard's Eau Claire iterations in this thread for posterity? I can only find the iteration from 2013, there was a much older one from 2006 or so that was very different.

The problem is climate. During the winter, the pathway traffic dries up considerably and those businesses would need alternative revenue streams.

The fenced off area is a tenant amenity space, not a public park so they probably will keep it walled off, especially with the vagrancy that is constantly in the area due to proximity to shelters. I heard once that they found an intruder hiding in a ceiling crawl space. The park has been gone...

Not sure why my picture of the proposal/render disappeared from the first post but I have-added it. Will add some more in-progress pictures as the first tiles go up.

What's the real difference anyway? It's the same food suppliers, but I guess City Market has a more Sunterra/Upmarket feel. I wonder if they will have issues as it's directly adjacent to the Drop In Centre and it was already the primary way for DI residents to make their way through the street...

Good point, we can't forget the Lac Megantic Rail Disaster

The Best Shop hasn't helped as it's on the downstairs level with it's own entrance and most people avoid walking through the mall which is it's own ghost town. It looks like a town hall was held to assuage fears but I can only imagine a lot of renters and owners are losing a ton of money to...

Melborne looks great but Copenhagen, Moscow, and San Francisco makes me dread a repeat of what happened to Devonian Gardens. An aging but lush and interesting space turned into sterile 2010s mall planters, cold walkways, contemporary structures that won't age well, etc. Just an overall cold...

Yes they definitely have deep pockets. That mansion is basically the size and look of Buckingham Palace and the two scions didn't want to live there so they got one penthouse each, hence two towers of Guardian. That's the rumor anyway.

- I really wonder what the CMHC plan is for the Enoch House parking lot after the Cowboys Tent packs up. The one benefit is that I think Cowboys paid for it to be paved, it used to be a dirt lot and I watched the excavate a ton of old victorian foundations out of there before they paved it over...