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Downtown Calgary has gone through a lot of transformation over the years. Going from a downtown full of houses and a few buildings, to a downtown with more office buildings but all the houses replaced with empty lots.
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Looking at the downtown in general (the Beltline and downtown commercial core) We are mostly there, we mainly need to find a way to develop those empty parcels along the train tracks. Any other empty lots will take care of themselves.
There's been a lot of development on 10th Ave on the south side so it's not the noise/proximity to train tracks holding builders back. It's unfortunate our only over rail connections are parking lots. A pedestrian park connecting between Oliver on the South and a new development on the North would be great. I wonder if that's something where if the builder builds the building on the North side, the city can pay for the park over the rail corridor and have it as a public amenity instead of a private park.
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And the ill-fated Eau Claire lots (which, personally, I find even more frustrating and offensive). Those two areas of surface parking are the two largest remaining holes in the inner-city urban fabric. Fill them and Calgary would really be cooking with fire!
For me these empty parcels are the last of what I would call empty lot sprawl. I would be willing to see some taxpayer money going toward development of public amenities, or incentives toward retail like a market, or theater plaza, etc.. Anything to get them filled in.
