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It's easy to remember: Brick above siding, your face you should be hiding. Siding above brick, that'll do the trick.

I think that only works if you assume the west end is a quite small portion of the total downtown office space, on the order of 5%. Here's the math assuming 10% in west end: 45M sq ft total * 0.1 pct in west end = 4.5M sq ft in west end 4.5 M * 0.44 vacancy rate =1.98M sq ft vacant West end...

Nexen is 600K sq ft, so about 5% of the total downtown vacancy. I don't know how much of the office space is in what they consider the west end, but I think it's likely 15-25% of the total space; at those rates, Nexen would be 20%-12% of west end vacancy, respectively.

I was talking last night to a crop insurance adjuster after the hail alert; he said his company didn't have much if any business in the area because the regularity of the hail storms means they just increased premiums to the point that no one bought from them. It's an interesting situation; on...

Speaking of which, here's a construction update on the Mission bridge and retaining wall work from a different than usual vantage point.

The ultimate plan as I understand it is to keep 3 lanes but rather than the crazy wide SB lane to have much wider ped/bike space on both sides. They're doing both sides in the end. It's the third bridge in the area; the first was wood, then it was replaced with steel, then it was replaced with...

I don't know a ton about the nuts-and-bolts of construction, but I thought I'd have a look at this anyway. There's a detailed building price index available, which tracks the overall cost of residential and nonresidential building construction; the nonresidential is a mix of office, factory...

That article is from March 2021; I can think of one thing that's changed since then: Not the only element to be sure, but I wonder how much this contributes.

The yellow area has 40% of the housing; the pink area has 60% of the housing, plus 100% of the stores and services.

I think that talking about living without a car isn't all that useful a rhetorical exercise, except to generate more heat than light. It's great when households can choose to live without a car (my household is one of these), but I think the real reasonable aim is to move away from a situation...

I looked at the Wikipedia article from 10 years ago to see where the roster was playing, versus today. 10 years ago, the most common professional status was "unattached" (5 players); today it's the MLS (14 players). We had only 1 MLS player 10 years ago, and the MLS was nowhere near as good a...

To be fair, the numbers I posted are a little misleading, since it seems like in 1961 High River was the second largest town in the Calgary area; in fact, it was the fourth largest (fifth largest if you include Olds, which I think is too far away to be really considered part of the Calgary...

They can also join up with their colleagues at work to try and improve their work conditions together.

It depends on the perspective. From the perspective of providing high quality access for drivers to access suburban destinations, it's a great piece of infrastructure. From the perspective of a city that had adopted goals of reduced suburban sprawl, reduced auto dominance, increased transit...

That was a hell of a game! A little bit of BS refereeing of course, but the guys played really well, they absolutely deserved the win. This is arguably the best result the 🇨🇦MNT has ever achieved, semi-finals of this level of tournament. Guaranteed two more games against top rank opponents...

A lot of the poor decisions of the past are either things that were built (ring road) or not done (delays leading to inflation) -- in which case it's just present reality, like it or not. Many of the others are unquestioned assumptions (we should use a design-build megacontract; car traffic...

Every year it feels more like an urban festival with all of the buildings around the grounds. Took this about a minute before they shut G-Eazy on the Coke stage down due to the severe thunderstorm warning

Here's the 2024 numbers from the Altus construction cost guide: (I included Van because I'm cutting and pasting from a PDF). Assuming 800 sq ft floorspace per unit (note that not all the floorspace is in the unit - halls, common spaces, etc. so 800 sq ft might be reasonable for half 1 BR half...

It's interesting to see similar changes and rates elsewhere; the above is Metro Vancouver's numbers; it's interesting that we use less water than them given that I can't imagine they water their lawns that much. My understanding is that Australia is the leader in urban water usage; one source...

Here's a historical snapshot, with 1961 and 1986 populations. (All data federal Census obviously.) 1961 is a reasonable proxy for the start of the car age; it's old enough that getting Census data is a real pain (so I don't have most of the numbers). 1986 is conveniently when Calgary was half...