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An endowment trust fund is a good idea and it would work. There’s no downside except. that we wouldn’t see the benefits from it for another 30 or 40 years. If the city had created one like 50 years ago, we’d be planting a couple of thousand trees every year from the fund.

Great news, though the article wording is a bit confusing. It talks about 8.7 million Ctrain boardings in March but mentions ‘transit’ had 25 million boardings for the quarter. I’m assuming the 25 million for the quarter is for ctrain? Does anyone know the numbers for all transit (busses and...

Not only 24 minutes travel time, but 11 frequencies all day gives it as good or better service than many rail options. The max purple line is the only one that doesn’t run all day and has low frequency. The other three max lines run all day and have higher frequencies. There’s a very good...

With BMO as the tenant I expect this will start up construction again, it was probably halted due to the ongoing construction on 33rd

Good thing it’s approved, it’s been u/c for a few months now :)

Are those blue sections stucco or aluminum panels?

The sad part about this building and others in Calgary is the metal trim they are using looks like vinyl. There’s an old saying, “perception is reality”.

I don’t think there’s any question the stampede and the city for the main drivers behind Victoria Parks demise. Although I would say it’s hard to compare to places like Beltline, Sunalta, Lower Mount Royal, Mission or Bridgeland. Especially Bridgeland, lower Mount Royal, mission as those areas...

It’s turned out exactly like the renderings. once Kanas took over the project I was worried it might get VE’d but it’s exactly as the original plan.

So far so good, the materials are looking better than I thought they would.

Downtown and Beltline are booming, but not the same way it is in university district, from an owner-occupant perspective. Most of the units being built in downtown are either purpose built rentals or condos targeted specifically to investors who are going to rent them out. The sites in...

I couldn’t care less if it was a cheap spandrel tower, their reasons for opposition aren’t valid in my opinion.

It’s good, old-fashioned average filler. I’m happy to see these developments go up near the Westbrook station even if it’s not right at the station, the extra density going up around it will eventually spur some major development at the station itself.

26th ave is picking up in a good way. One thing I really like about 26th is it doesn’t tie into Crowchild. All the way from 37th St. to 14th it has great potential, if we could only get the bike lane extended all the way to 14th that be great.

Agreed. If YYC/Westjet can continue to funnel traffic from interior of BC and the prairies that can continue to build the hub. Cities from Kelowna to Winnipeg have been receiving large numbers of immigrants and that could be a good market for more overseas flights.

This about as mundane as density gets, but it's still density. Hopefully it spurs more density in the area.

I used to love supertalls and high-rises. It's what got me into these forums in the first place, but these days I couldn't care less about supertalls, especially the ones in Asia, where they all blend together into oblivion. I'm enjoying watching a couple of the Toronto ones go up The One and...

The cycle track is on both sides for 2nd street.

It doesn’t matter what continent you look at, there isn’t a global standard for all housing. High end builds in Asia, Middle East, Latin America etc are better than First and Park, but the other 95% of all housing is of lower standard. From a quality standpoint First and Park is close to where...

1200 new units in 12 years is some solid and steady growth. Especially when you consider most of it is within a a block or two of 10th St. If Kensington could continue to add an average of 100 units per year, it’ll do very well, although I would like to see that more like 200 a year 😊