BKha
Active Member
The massing gives it a 70’s feel, but the buildings have a fairly modern look.
61st Ave Residential | 64m | 19s | Cadillac Fairview | Zeidler
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CalgaryTiger
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These fit the area, sad as it is to say. For better or worse.
KrisYYC
New Member
View of the two cranes from the parking lot of Han Corea restaurant. One issue this project might have in attracting residents is the amount of vagrants in the area. That would be a huge turn off for me if every time I left my building I'm seeing addicts shooting up or milling about high as a kite.
Beltline_B
Senior Member
An unfortunate reality. Once there is more development around the area the problem will mostly go away, moving to some other area nearby.
It won’t solve the problem, but it would improve the area around Chinook station.
Turtle
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O-tac
Senior Member
I hope this development helps with the problems in that area. Every time I've been to Chinook Centre recently I have encountered some sketchy group or individuals. It's gotten so bad that the family bathrooms in the foodcourt were locked one time. I noticed a large gathering under the stairs of the Macleod Pedestrian overpass another time also. It's getting to be East Village level in some areas.
KrisYYC
New Member
It might help a bit in the immediate vicinity of the building if it has decent security but I doubt it'll help much overall until the whole area sees much more residential development. Scrapping the naive honour system on the C-train would probably help quite a bit. It's not the early 80's anymore. Society has changed (for the worse).
DougB
Senior Member
Retrofitting the CTrain with fare gates would be virtually impossible. A far easier solution would be security actually doing something about open drug use. I keep using Dallas as an example. The cops there have zero tolerance for open drug use and will confiscate drugs and force users to smash their paraphernalia. It works