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I think 7th avenue is negotiable, Stephen Avenue less so.

Email your councillor Email the mayor Email the rest of the councillors while you're at it Email the file manager (you can find their email address in the dmap link on page 1 of this thread) Email Ron Orr, AB Minister of Culture (one of the buildings is Provincially protected) Contact the...

Does anyone know if there is city signage on Stephen Ave and 7th Ave regarding the proposals?

The owner was part of the sdab appeal against the plan to restore the 7th ave buildings. Wonder how he's feeling now.

https://calgaryherald.com/business/massive-new-tower-proposed-for-stephen-avenue Triovest declined a request for an interview but issued a statement. The building is being designed by local firm Gibbs Gage Architects, they declined comment on the story. Are they just hoping the whole thing...

Are we being tested on the new marketing campaign? STEPHEN AVENUE QUARTER - Don't Worry, Eventually You'll Forget What Was Here

Sorry that doesn't fit the 'nothing worth keeping' narrative

Only if and when the applicant wants them to, otherwise you have to go to city hall to see them.

All but one of the affected Stephen Avenue sites listed on the inventory of evaluated historical resources list other character defining elements that are in addition to the front façade. The Rose Garden This restaurant is not listed on the heritage inventory so is of no concern. The hodge...

The 7th avenue facade looks kind of like this but with more glass in the top half

Actually very much like the municipal building atrium but open air, so imagine this: But with a road, and with 2 dimensional historical facades tacked onto the outside. And something that kind of looks like this on top but with narrower windows. So essentially a 1970s-looking...

I've just seen some of the renderings. I can't share them because perversely there is an explicit restriction for any of the details to be posted on the internet (anyone want to start shit about that lack of transparency?) but I can tell you that the 'activated areas' look like every single...

Absolutely, lack of memory definitely makes the present seem best.

The article I posted was from 2016, when they first purchased the properties

Article about Triovest buying the 7th avenue block https://calgaryherald.com/business/commercial-real-estate/revitalization-planned-for-run-down-downtown-block-again ... executive vice-president of investments Tim Blair said in a statement that Triovest is looking forward to transforming the...

Anyone know who the owner actually is? In the past I heard the Mannix family name attached to the properties.

I think that angle did come up, that normally it would not have been supported and this was a special case due to the public good of the restoration of 8 historic buildings.

This will end up in the news this week. Some reporters are already working on the story.

It makes one wonder if complaints about alley access was really that appellants wanted the 7th ave block for themselves so they could demolish it and build this. Hypothetically of course..

Found it https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/absdab/doc/2015/2015cgysdab49/2015cgysdab49.html