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Not for 1998. Remember Mission was a less than desirable area back then and a high end luxury home in Elbow Park or Mount Royal went for about $800K. Developing site the today would cost tens of millions to tear down the existing asbestos insulated buildings, raise it above flood plain and...

Edmonton was also growing like mad in the 60s and was expected to add several million people on its southern boundary. Highway 2 between Leduc and Edmonton has an extra wide median, built to accommodate a future collector-distributor configuration like the SW Calgary Ring Road. Edmonton had...

I suspect most of the site will end up as park, possibly with a few high rises towards its southwest corner

Not really. The buildings are virtually worthless due to outdated HVAC and asbestos. The Province walked away from a renovation in 1994 due to the challenges after spending millions building a new elevator tower and partially upgrading the HVAC. The site will need to be raised above floodplain...

Under skilled worker constraints, I would think that a developer would maximize its capital turnover by having fewer projects on the go so that it could complete them faster rather than spreading the same number of workers across more projects for longer durations. Companies are incented to...

That is an excellent example. Rather than rezoning SFH in Queensland, Deer Run and Bonavista Downs, why not rezone the excess RoW adjacent to Bow Bottom, as well as some of the alleys and parking that front it for 6 story apartments? A blunt approach like rezoning the entire city to gain an...

Calgary is challenging because so many trees die from lack of water, chinooks and road salt. Are homeowners going to need permits to remove dead trees? If they won't, some may be incented to poison trees to avoid permitting

They should focus on real issues rather than those from Toronto and Vancouver. Rezoning the whole city is a big deal and is unlikely to be viewed as legitimate without a plebiscite. Bulk rezoning without broad public support will only encourage opposition to redevelopment. Unlike other cities...

Let's see similar curves for investment

Rage inducing because too many activists (on both sides) are focusing on too small an issue. They should focus their energy on real issues like how to pay down the Provincial debt and find new revenue sources to replace non-recurring resource revenues without significantly raising tax issues.

Would a "Nenshi Democratic Party" be big enough for his ego? I thought he was waiting for the call to be the new federal Liberal leader.

Alberta is attracting people who seek higher disposable incomes, much as it has during previous booms. Demographics aren't changing.

Longer term, a more sophisticated tax regime might make sense. Right now, AB is approximating the loss from fuel tax and adding it to annual registration. Many US States do the same: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/electric-vehicles-ev-taxes-state/

The budget forecasts real GDP growth at 2.9%, which is less than population growth so of course spending cannot keep up. Canada has had flat to declining GDP per capita since 2015 which means as the country becomes poorer so does funding for social services. This is compounded by debt rolling...

Before WCP was built, it was a crappy apartment building. I lived there from ages 5 to 6 and attended the school at what is now the MacDougall Center.

Wonder if these are for one of the empty parcels in the existing Stampede Station development (Stampede Station office tower, Nuera, Alura, Sasso, Vitro) or another parcel such as the dromer Ziff Energy building? I thought that One Properties still owned the Stampede Station parcels. Also...

No. About 30 years' age difference

He delivered Smith an easy way to disassociate from him.

Back to the future. That site was a hoarded dusty and gravel lot from the mid 80s until Eau Claire Market broke ground in summer of 92

To bad. Wish it were Air Canada shutting down instead