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It looks like there are some brackets for it, so I don't think it's been removed entirely.

Yes - an incident that occurred in a foreign city with completely different culture / history / demographics is totally relevant to Calgary, Alberta! I don't recall any police brutality incidents the last time there was an effort to crack down on petty crime downtown, during the reign of...

Wow - some confidence in the ultra high-end condo market.

They have full time security but it's tough to keep up - there are constantly people smoking (cigs and various other things) in the vestibules and some of the nooks and crannies around that building are essentially open sewers. 💩

Ooh. Yeah. Um, I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there. The new design has: - More frontage on 17th for the building (25m vs existing 18m) creating an improved streetwall - A reduction in the area dedicated to vehicles (1,170 m2 vs. existing 1,400 m2) - Improved...

It might take a few more months, but I actually think interest rates at their current levels will have a major impact on the market bubbles in Toronto and Vancouver - less so in Calgary, but housing is already affordable here. A variable mortgage payment on the average home in Canada is already...

Just like when they made Fifth Ave a two-way and it turned into a pedestrian paradise? 😂 Two-way traffic is marginally better for the viability of street-front retail, but it doesn't really have an impact on the hostility of the public realm when the root causes relate to the fundamental design...

I'd like to see some version of form-based zoning implemented.

Sounds like you know more about it than most people!

I'm still not buying this argument. If you create enough demand for downtown resi then the economics of these conversions will work without giving cash to private entities. It's still crazy to me that people will whinge and whine endlessly about an arena or Olympic bid - yet there was...

Subsidization of these office conversions with public money is such a waste - any dollars should be spent as Calgcouver says - on improving the downtown environment so that people might actually want to live there. The city needs to stop treating downtown as a cash cow and invest some of the...

I wonder if there's a way to do a stadium where the first few rows of seats are able to retract over the running track? Similar to how the Saddledome can expand to host a European size hockey rink. That way you wouldn't have to have the stands setback so far from the field like at Commonwealth.

If we are spending hundreds of millions of public on a field house, I'd much rather combine it with a football stadium that has a much wider user base. I'll probably never use a fieldhouse, but I do go to 1-2 Stamps games per year.

Agreed - I think they should go back to named streets, at least for the major ones in the downtown and Beltline. It would be a good reminder that Calgary owes it's prominence to decisions made long ago by the CPR. I'd also like to see Chinese street names in Chinatown be made official, and some...

The Salvage Kings!

The route through Beddington was really the only feasible alternative but that ship has sailed long ago. CP actually evaluated this back in the 60s but rejected it in favour of the ill-fated proposal to re-route the tracks alongside the river: A good read for any history dorks interested in...

There are development setbacks from landfills and former landfills for sensitive uses like residential and food service. As you can see on this map, only a couple former landfill sites have been built upon. Health concerns aside, there would be significant geotechnical challenges for any large...

I still think she's going to have some type of spectacular meltdown and be replaced as leader prior to the election.

I think this is a more recent iteration of the design: https://calgary.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/calgary-1520-m-38s-grosvenor-mckinley-burkart.24234 Last I heard was Grosvenor had the site up for sale, but don't think that ever happened. Maybe they decided not to exit the Calgary market...

Not bad - but Beltline still needs an ODR.